In the spirit of Valentine’s Day I shared a bottle of the Yards Chocolate Love Stout with my fiancée. It came in a 750 ml bottle with similar artwork to their Love Stout, which is a draft only oyster stout. The Chocolate Love Stout is exactly as one would envision, their year round Love Stout aged on cocoa nibs (and vanilla beans).
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One of Troegs newest additions to their Scratch Series, a one-off small batch release, is Scratch 83 – ¿Impending Descent? A rather massive 10.90% Russian Imperial Stout seems like a much needed style to Troegs seasonal or year-round line-up. Hopefully this one is good enough to be a potential contender if they decide to expand their portfolio.
Perhaps one of our favorite breweries, The Bruery, is back on the show with their latest in barrel-aged innovation, White Chocolate. Starting with a Wheatwine base, this massive 14.25% ABV beer is aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla beans and cocoa nibs.
The 2012 Sierra Nevada Beer Camp series is out, and today we’ve got the Snowed in Stout “Oatmeal Stout” #45. Classified as an Imperial Stout, this 9% ABV beer is the highest of the series this year. From Sierra Nevada: “This Imperial oatmeal stout is inky black in color, with a big milk chocolate, mocha-like aroma. It has a silky body from the use of rolled oats, and a round and lasting finish.”
We’re back with a beer from the East Coast this week from Foothills Brewing Company out of North Carolina. Each year they release their anticipated Sexual Chocolate, and today we have their limited Bourbon Barrel aged version of the 2011 vintage.
