- My Rating: [C-], I gave it a (2.7 of 5) on Ratebeer.com
Winter White Stout – Steamworks Brewing Company, 5.1% ABV – 33 IBU, 650 ml., (Vancouver, BC, Canada) (*local BC craft beer)
Malts: Maris Otter, Flaked Barley, Flaked & Golden Naked Oats
Hops: Fuggles, Golding, WGB
Unique: Cacao & Coffee Beans
Colour: Caramel
IBU’s: 33
- Style: (cacao bean, coffee bean, oats) Spiced Ale
- Taste: Astringent sour roast coffee thin barley malt dry cacao subtle bitter hops
- Where I got it : Legacy Liquor / Vancouver
- How much: $7.15 CAD (after 10% off) – 650ml., December 2015
- Do I love this enough to drink it again: no
- Would I recommend this to beer aficionados: no
Visual: (cellared for 1 year) Pours clear golden orange with no head, just a very small spotty island and few uneventful bubbles here and there, large bits of sediment in the 2nd pour. Uninspiring.
Nose: roasted coffee, mild cacao notes, (lvl-5)-pungency
Attack: thicker mouthfeel, crisp, off-dry coffee malt impression
Mid-palate: (lvl-3-sweetness), background sour coffee bean, resiny metallic hopped, grainy barley malt
Finish: dry cacao-chocolate, residual light tangy sour barley malt, subtle lingering bitter hops
Summary: Not quite the stout I was expecting. I find the sourish roast coffee notes not meshing smoothly with the t00 light of a barley malt base, making it taste like a harsh cold brew coffee. Just a bit above average, better coffee ales out there.
