Pastry Stout - Grain & Grit

 

Mood: This week was 4 days, and Im starting my weekend off now!

Where to buy: Grain and Grit, or 4th and 7. 

Price: overpriced for $5

Beer type: Pastry Stout with Chocolate Sponge Toffee & Lactose

Ingredients: Water, Barley, Wheat, Lactose, Dextrose, Cacao Nibs, Toffee brittle, VAnilla Extract, Hymalayan Salt, Natural Caramel Flavour, Yeast, Hops, Caramel filling. 

Region: Hamilton, On

%: 8.5%

ml: 355ml

Appearance: Dark almost black

Smell: a sweet porter

Taste: Honestly, tastes like a light porter with a hint of caramel and pencil shavings.  Ya im not kidding.  For the amount of ingredients in this....

Mouthfeel: creamy af. Very stout like

Finish: little bitter, little creamy, all sweet (and a hint of bitter)

Overall: Ok for the amount of ingredients listed on here I was expecting so much more flavour.  It honestly reminds me of a coffee porter boiled down into something a little thicker and sweeter, minus the coffee flavour... so really... wtf!!!! I expected flavours guys!

5/10 won't be heading to the brewery for just this. It doesn't even taste like what is says.