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I'm trying Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout (a fine Otter Creek product) for the first time. It's delightful, rich and nutty with a coffee-like aroma. Saranac Black Forest is my usual standby. There's a nice house porter at the Buffalo Tap Room as well. Guinness is adequate but I really think any decent porter or stout has it beat. I'm interested in what good dark beers are available in Canada since I've only really started specializing since Buffalo.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/photos/oldslug.jpg http://www.harveys.org.uk/images/pumpclipmild.jpg

― Ed (dali), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Monteith's I love you so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

haha Ed you should try cooking with that porter sometime, to appease Gareth.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

How dark? I've really been enjoying Negro Modelo lately, but it's a little light/hoppy compared to porters & stouts.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

guinness is my favorite, but there are plenty of dark beers i enjoy. there's one german one i particularly like, but the name of it escapes me at the moment.

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Negro Modelo tastes faintly like peanut butter.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

On the Dark Lager side Budweiser Budvar Dark is good, Baltika 6 (a sort of Hybrid porter/lager), I'm trying to think of the Belgian Dark beer, but my flu addled brain is not working well. You have the franco belgian brunes like Pelforth and Leffe, but there is better than that.

http://www.beer-pages.com/images/budvar_dark.jpg
http://www.hannammarket.co.kr/upload/1050562795/DSCN0588.JPG

― Ed (dali), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

^^ baltika is great, particularly at a russian steam room

― manute lol (sanskrit), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Black Butte Porter

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that shit is great.
Young's Chocolate Stout

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

I had a four-pack of Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout a couple weeks ago. Totally complex and great, though a little too hard-hitting for my delicate constitution. Also enjoy the Sam Adams Cream Stout. Got a Sierra Nevada porter in my fridge, which I assume will be good.

― askance johnson (sdownes), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a soft spot for Bert Grant's Perfect Porter -- it was the beer that opened my eyes to the world outside adjunct-packed lagers.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

I've been loving Rochefort Trappistes 8 lately, but I've just run out - Ed, where should I go to get more, other than Utobeer? I thought they sold it in Oddbins, but it seems I was mistaken. I've never tried the 10, but I'm betting it's even better.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 11 November 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pitfield beershop does a lot of belgians, pitfield st in hoxton.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 11 November 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Rogue's Mocha Porter. Black Butte, Grant's, Sierra Nevada are also good. I'm partial to West Coast micros. Anderson Valley Brewing Co. is probably my favorite.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 11 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

in canada, i like phillip's double chocolate porter and st ambroise's mcauslan oatmeal stout. the latter should be quite avaliable, the former less so.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 11 November 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pitfield beershop does a lot of belgians, pitfield st in hoxton.

It closed in February :-(

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I did not know about that.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

They still exist and do farmer's markets it seems

They can ship you a case of Rochefort

http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/belgian_beers.htm

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I could have sworn we've been there since then? That's disturbing news...

Believe it or not Sainsbury's are doing a fair amount of great beers at the moment - as areWaitrose

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Waitrose has some good 4 for £5 deals on bottled ales, nothing too wild but some good stuff.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Ed. I still kick myself for never going to the shop while it was open, esp as it was only 20 mins walk from us.

Will check out both Sainsbury's and Waitrose - haven't been in either for ages, and unsurprisingly Tesco metro is not so good.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 11 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

nb I don't suppose anyone knows anywhere good to buy beer close to the Gare du Nord, that'll be open on a Monday evening? I did track down what look like some good options, but they're all closed on Mondays :-(

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 11 November 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I tried Young's double chocolate stout last night. It's really a thing of beauty, a rich dark with a strong hot chocolate flavour.

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I had it on Wednesday for the first time! Muy bueno!

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

second the st. ambroise oatmeal stout. sammy smith's oatmeal stout is also fantastic.

― jackl (jackl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Love Dunkels, so I'm happy to see this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/dining/reviews/05wine.html?src=dayp

― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

Sam Adams Chocolate Stout

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

American craft brewers have spent more time exploring ale styles than lagers. Perhaps this is because the ales are more alluring, considering how long Americans were deprived of them. Or possibly because, as Garrett pointed out, lagers are harder to brew, demanding more precision and leaving less room for error.

i've wondered about this. interesting that the guy from Brooklyn Lager thinks lagers are more difficult (and Brooklyn Lager doesn't really taste like a lager to me).

The Lakefront Eastside Dark sounds good, anyone had that?

― mizzell, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

seems like it's easier to put your "stamp" on an ale than a lager--adding something to a lager feels just like that, an addition. was thinking about this yesterday as i drank victory's prima pils, which is a nice beer but has an american-style hop character that makes it something other than a classic pils.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

48 latitude pils is pretty frickin tasty. looking forward to Noble Pils.

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

latitude 48 scuse me.

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

and its an ipa...i need to wake up.

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

the noble pils is good! reminds me of the victory a bit. hella improvement over that white ale they used to run out in the spring.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:44 (fourteen years ago)

yeah that white ale comes in the winter pack...disappointing.

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

noble pils took me a bit to get into last year when it came out, first 6 pack i had i thought it tasted like tin. a week later i wanted to make love to it.

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

haven't tried this yet, but i will later this week
http://www.goldhillalaska.com/images/great-divide-espresso-oak-aged-yeti.png

― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

whoa good timing for this, I had a Deschutes Abyss for the first time last night and hollee shit that is the first stout ive had in years that i liked. also it has sufficent ABV to totally pwn you (11%) which i dont think my local realizes because they're serving it in full pints. which is hardcore

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

Friends back from NY say Innis & Gunn is amazing. Only available around NY, of course.

― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 18:59 (fourteen years ago)

Founders KBS! wow!!

― Aerosol, Friday, 7 January 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

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