Back to a regular show this week we talk about Brooklyn’s Black Chocolate Stout. If you love hearing Jim gush over a beer and a brewery this shows for you.
News
I am sure that you never want to pour out a beer, but if you have to, there is now a good reason. You can use them in the garden. If you bury some jars with just a little beer in the bottom and the tops off, slugs – which can cause lots of damage to gardens – will crawl over to the edge to drink the beer, fall in, and drown. I wonder if slugs prefer one style over another?
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
- Tonights brewery is one of Jim’s favorites, Brooklyn Brewery in, yep you guessed it, Brooklyn, New York.
- Founded in 1987 by Steve Hindy and Tom Potter, Brooklyn has steadily grown to become one of the more popular breweries in the country.
- Originally, all of their beer was contract brewed by a company called Matt Brewing.
- Since 1994, Garret Oliver has been the brewmaster at Brooklyn. A fair amount of the research for this show comes from his book, The Brewmasters Table.
- This beer weighs in at 10.6% ABV, and is classified as a Russian Imperial Stout.
- This beer pours dark black, a lot like last weeks, but not too thick and oil like. The head again is nearly as dark as the beer itself and helps to release a nice chocolately aroma, but we are talking roasty chocolate, not sweet milk chocolate. There is also a little bit of an alcohol smell with this as well, what with it being as strong as it is, that isn’t too shocking.
- The taste is more of the same with the chocolate, roasty, but a little richer this week than last. This one is much more chocolate as opposed to esspro bitterness.
- The mouthfeel on this one, although poured thin, tastes just about right for this beer.
- Overall, this is one of my favorite imperial stouts. Because of it’s high alcohol, it is also a good beer to cellar.
Next Week
One more show left in the stout series, and we would be letting everyone down if we didn’t do the next beer, Russian Imperial Stout from Stone, so tune in and find out about one of Jim and Jake’s favorite beers.
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Just wanted to add that, yes Jim, the beer in the garden DOES actually work when it comes to killing slugs. My grandmother would leave little bowls of cheap beer in her garden, & the next morning would find them full of dead slugs. It’s actually the yeast in the beer that attracts the slugs, so you could technically also use yeast diluted in water, & get the same effect. I just kinda like the idea of them drinking the leftover Budweiser that I’ll never touch.
Cheers.
– Eric
Thanks for the confirmation. I can’t think of a better use for Bud.
First of all, I started listening to you guys about two months ago. Awesome show, informative without being too winded. By some random trade I swapped a Flying Dog K-9 cruiser for a Brooklyn Chocolate Stout with a stranger in a coffee shop (don’t ask). Then the next day I got your podcast and it was the Brooklyn Chocolate Stout.
What a beer!
Good trade, glad you are enjoying the show!