ABV: 5.7%
Style: Oatmeal Stout
IBU:13
Tomorrow is St. Paddy's Day and my excitement is mounting for the festivities planned around Chicago, I can't wait to experience it all for the first time. You know when a city dyes its river green that they know how to celebrate this holiday. And Chicago doesn't have just one St. Patrick's Day Parade, but two!
Writing about this stout also gave me an excuse to play with our new Canon Rebel so I hope that my photographs of food start to look as good as it tastes.
Stout beer is a dark beer that's brewed using roasted malt or barley, hops, water, and yeast. From there brewers add their own ingredients and we're left with several variations of stouts including milk, Irish, and chocolate. Oatmeal stouts have been around since the medieval period and that's a long time for breweries to get it right. Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout is produced by Anderson Valley Brewing Company in Boonville, CA. It's very dark, rich, and creamy with notes of chocolate, caramel, and a hint of coffee. It pairs well with desserts but it's also great on it's own. It gets two big thumbs up, it's definitely one of the best oatmeal stouts I've tried.
Have you tried this oatmeal stout? What did you think? Comments are appreciated!
Hope you have a great St. Paddy's Day.
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