We’re with another Stout, but not the one we were planning on. In a stout, Valentine’s Day collision we look at Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
News
This weeks story comes from Fox News. Two men attempting to hijack a beer truck in London ended up crashing the vehicle only a few hundred yards away, spilling beer canisters into the street and drenching the road with alcohol. “Everything just poured out of it,” said Jags Khokhar, 27, who works at a nearby car garage. “All the cans came out of the top half of the lorry (truck), and there was spillage everywhere.”
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
- Young’s Brewery is one of the two independently owned breweries in London, the other being Fullers.
- The brewery itself is a blend of old and new, parts have old copper equipment while others have the newest of the new modern items.
- The beer for the night is classified as a sweet or milk stout. There are lots of different stouts sub-classes out there; milk stouts, sweet stouts, imperial stouts, oatmeal stouts, cream stouts. We are not going to cover them all, but we will jump back and forth a bit between them.
- The sweet/milk stout is just that, a bit sweeter than the normal stout, which of course makes it a perfect topic this week because of Valentine’s Day.
- The Double Chocolate weighs in at around 5.2% and pours that nice dark black with an incredibly milk chocolate looking head.
- The smell is what you would expect, chocolate. Now I have said that beers in the past have had a slight chocolate aroma or taste, but this one blows those all away. This one tastes like chocolate. Now there is some roasty flavor, but you really get a nice semi-sweet dark chocolate flavor. This is most certainly a beer that is a desert beer.
Next Week
Well, who knows what we are going to be doing next week. Life has been busy here lately and with a little slow down this week I should be able to plan some more, so it could be the food show, or it could be another stout, who knows, but tune in!
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