White Stout???



Broadford Brewery

I think I might be one of the only people to get to try this beer 3 different ways and to be honest they vary on each cask, keg, and bottle. Now the cask and keg were a while ago but I seem to pull from my very drunken memory banks I preferred the cask version to the other. Keg was to cold gave it a huge hop haze and had zero to no flavour, the cask seems to flow a bit better sadly I only had a half of each of these so its hard to pull the exact flavours to really give this beer any kind of tasting notes. Last night there was a huge tasting session over twitter with bottles of White Stout going out to different venues from Stoke on Trent to Newcastle to Hudderfield to Leeds and all the way down to London Town. I sadly missed the event but picked a bottle up from Mr. Foleys and opened it with great haste while enjoying my dinner of chicken wings and a damn fine potato salad. I let it breathe for a bit while taking sips every now and again to remind my tongue of what kind of beer this actually is. Derived from an old English definition of stout meaning basically strong ale and this lives up to the definition that printed on the bottle. Now the big question is does this beer live up to the hype and initially it doesn't the cold doesn't do this beer any favours but after about an hour the beer evolves into a completely different beast all together. A very tasty 7.2 abv beverage that really goes well with Celebrity Juice blaring on in the background and the ramblings of family members om the couch. In reality drink this beer if you want to get lost in your own little world so you can drown out the conversations of a show that's not funny anymore and concentrate on the different amount of flavours that come with this beer moving from cold to cool to warm to room temp so all in all I shall rate the keg 2 out of 5, cask gets 4 out of 5 and bottle gets no rating as it gets better with time and its unfair to rate a beer that gets better out of the bottle.