There are many pleasures you discovered during Peaks and Pints February Stouts In & Out, but new beers are chief among them. During our month-long stout celebration, you drank a bunch of new beers, including Fremont’s 2021 B-Bomb Cinnamon Coconut, Matchless Bar Hazelnut, Everybody’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, Single Hill Osa Minor, imperial milk stouts, vanilla stouts, chocolates stouts and many more. This weekend marks the last days of our Stout In & Out, and we’re going out with a bang! Peaks & Pints suggests four new stouts to take home — a flight we call Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Stout Month Finale On The Fly.
Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Stout Month Finale On The Fly
Epic Midnight Munchies Peanut Butter Stout
8.5% ABV
“This beer was born just about at midnight on a cold, fall evening after we’d just finished up brewing the last batch of our 2020 Big Bad Baptist variants,” states Epic Brewing Midnight Munchies hype. “The whole crew was sitting around a table, chowing down on goodies, dipping their fingers in a big ol’ tub of peanut butter, and washing it all down with gigantic gulps of our Imperial Stout. Before we knew it, we polished off a Costco sized jar of peanut butter and a keg of Imperial. Okay, maybe that story isn’t true, but what is true is that we wanted to experience the rich flavors of peanut butter in combination with the roastiness of imperial stout.” The thick and rich peanut butter is stabilized by the smooth bitterness brought on by the dark 2-Row, Crystal, and Marris Otter malts, creating an equilibrium with a viscous mouth feel followed up by a smooth and sweet aftertaste. This is best at furnishing the perfect late-night escapade from reality in the form of a convenient pint size can.
Skookum Vanilla Solitary Confinement
12% ABV
This version of Skookum Brewery‘s Solitary Confinement is based on the old recipe, with some tweaks. It’s comprised of 66.6 percent imperial stout aged 16 months in Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels and 33.3 percent aged for 11 months in Woodinville Whiskey Bourbon barrels, then finishes on a heap of whole vanilla beans (twice as many as the previous batch) for notes of toasted marshmallow, bourbon-soaked lady fingers, oaky chocolate, and roasty malt.
Evil Twin Blueberry Jelly Donut Even More Jesus
12% ABV
What’s up with Evil Twin Brewing’s fascination with Jesus? Well, it arose during non-Christian Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø’s pricing email exchange with a business partner. One particular price caused the brewer to write, “Jesus, this is expensive.” The next email received had an even higher price listed prompting, “even more Jesus.” What followed was a string of craft beers with “Jesus” in the name, including Blueberry Jelly Donut Even More Jesus, an imperial stout with doughnut and blueberry flavor.
Smog City Buzzworthy
12.5% ABV
Smog City. If it sounds like the perfect name for the next L.A.-area brewery, that’s because it is. Laurie and Jonathan Porter began brewing at home 20 years ago, shortly after they moved to California. In October 2011, they opened Smog City Brewing inside Tustin Brewing Co. brewpub. By utilizing TBC’s excess fermentation capacity, they were able to brew well-crafted beers, and personally distribute to restaurants and bars throughout Los Angeles County, before eventually opening their spot in Torrance. A collaboration with Moonlight Meadery, this award-winning, bourbon barrel-aged imperial honey stout is brewed with more than 600 pounds of rare Meadowfoam buckwheat honey for toasted marshmallow, oak, vanilla, and chocolate flavors are all crammed into this complex beer.
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