REVIEW: Young's Double Chocolate Stout

Folks, I'll be honest. This is not the beer that I had originally in mind for today's post. The other night I had a can of Tetley's Smoothflow all set to go. I poured the beer, took the photo and everything. But when I tasted it it gave me pause. Not that it was a bad beer, not at all. I enjoyed it. It just tasted a whole lot like Old Speckled Hen. The aromas and flavors were eerily similar. And I was worried that my post today would look a whole lot like the one that you saw on Monday. That I wouldn't have anything new to say. So for today's post I decided to go in another direction. In a direction that will surely give me some new tasting notes. Today I look at Young's Double Chocolate Stout. To the beer!

REVIEW: Sixpoint 3Beans

You guys know I couldn't let a new Sixpoint beer pass by the wayside without taking a look at it. I love these guys and their fabulous beers. Their newest ale, 3Beans is brewed with coffee beans, cacao beans, and romano beans, hence the name. A beer brewed with coffee and chocolate is old hat around these parts. But romano beans, which are similar to green beans? That one seems a bit odd. Turns out that brewers in medieval Europe, in many Baltic countries, didn't have access to traditional brewing ingredients. So they often had to turn down different avenues for fermentable sugars. They used, you guessed it, beans. Sounds intriguing to me! As always, with any new Sixpoint beer youtube is required viewing. This video chronicles the creation of and tribulations involved in getting the beer into my grubby little hands. If you can watch that video and don't come though on the other side excited about beer you're nobody I want to be friends with. So, we've got a 10% ABV, 85 IBU imperial stout brewed with Mast Brothers chocolate, Stumptown cold pressed coffee, and romano beans. Three Brooklyn companies, three beans, one beer. Sounds good to me! To the beer!

REVIEW: Rogue Chocolate Stout

I'm surprised it's taken me almost two months to get to a beer from Rogue. Their Dead Guy maibock is one of my all time favorite beers. It's a bit surprising though, that as ubiquitous as Dead Guy has become, that you don't see more Rogue beers at bars and liquor stores. Dead Guy is a staple at bars around here, but other offerings from Rogue seem to be much more rare. Also, it's kind of odd and cool that their flagship beer is a maibock. Enough of my rambling observations. To the beer!