Episode 102: Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

We continue our listener supporter series looking at Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.

News

Anheuser-Busch InBev is considering selling its Rolling Rock brand, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. For those of you who may not remember, InBev sold Anheuser-Busch the iconic Rolling Rock brand for $82 million in May 2006 and reacquired it when it bought Anheuser-Busch for about $52 billion last year. The paper said the brewer remains interested in selling Rolling Rock. Now the real question is where will the brand be brewed if and when it is sold. The Latrobe Brewery is either currently empty or owned by City Brewery which uses it to brew other companies beers.

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

• Well as by popular request we are going to re-examine a beer this week from last March, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.
• For those of you who don’t know, Brooklyn Brewery is one of my favorite brewery’s, not only due the fact that they make good beers, but also we use their brewmasters book, the “Brewmasters Table” as one of the major references for YNB.
• The brewing history is not unlike brewing history in many major US cities. Where once their was a vast network of breweries, prohibition took them down in numbers. Only recently have more and more small breweries, like Brooklyn, been sprouting up again.
• One interesting thing about Brooklyn is that they are a well published brewery, something you don’t often say. In addition to the Brewmasters Table, the owners have also written a book called Beer School, which details how they set up the brewery.
• Tonight’s beer, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, weighs in at 10.6% and is classified as a Russian Imperial Stout.
• This beer is a winter seasonal beer, and is one of my favorites. Tonights version is a 08-09 vintage.
• The pour is motor oil black. There were some highlights in the pour but really they went away in the glass. It has a thick chocolate colored head.
• The smell is chocolatly, a little alcohol there. It just smells wonderful.
• The taste is a little of dark chocolate, a little alcohol hotness, and a little coffee flavor there as well, but something along the lines of a esspresso flavor.
• This is a great sipping beer, one that goes great with desserts and other sweeter flavors. Think of this like a coffee to go with your rich chocolately dessert. It can both balance out and compliment the sweetness.

Next Week

One more beer left in you pick-em series. So, you need to tell us what that beer is going to be, or I am going to pick one in my fridge.

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