Samuel Adams Cream Stout:
Hello dear hearts, greetings from the canyon of the crescent moon. So today brings us to the end of the Samuel Adams week and we close out with another stout, the Cream Stout. Part of the brew masters collection, this beer has been sitting in the pantry over a year and honestly, I feared it’s taste. As the trepidation built, I noted that the pour was nice with a nose of coffee, minimal foaming in the head though but the carbonation in the beer was still there and noticeable. The taste finds all those flavors promised in yesterday’s Imperial Stout with thick coffee flavors and undertones of dark chocolate and a spice. As with any coffee heavy stout, the back-end of the beer is a nice coffee aftertaste. It’d be nice to have this flavorful stout combined with the creaminess of yesterday’s beer to make some uber-stout, but, alas, I can only dream. So this ends week 4 of brewery themes and while eye opening in some aspects (Rahr being a so-so brewery, so far being the biggest) I wouldn’t hesitate to do this again sometime later in the year. However, next month is another theme and we still have three days to fill this month with random beers. So, until tomorrow, stay frosty.