Blackout Stout

I had The Great Lakes Brew­ing Com­pa­ny’s lat­est con­coc­tion last night, the Black­out Stout. I don’t know much about beer, but stouts are my favorite, and I tru­ly appre­ci­ate a place that can pour a good pint of Guin­ness. Here is a link to peo­ple who seem to actu­al­ly know what they are talk­ing about when they review the Black­out Stout. Mine is after the jump.

It was okay, but I got bored with it. The taste was pret­ty sub­tle, no real pow­er­ful oaty or choco­latey taste like Guin­ness. It did­n’t even taste all that alco­holic to me, for all that it is 9.0% by vol­ume. Grant­ed I had it from a bot­tle, so a draft expe­ri­ence would most like­ly pro­vide a bet­ter exam­ple of what it should taste like. In any case, it was still a decent brew, but I’d pre­fer a Guin­ness or a Young’s over the Black­out Stout. Who knows, it might grow on me though.

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