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How Guinness Led a Modern Nitro-Stout Takeover of Britain’s Pubs

VinePair

This pub, reopened in November last year, is run by Dubliner Oisín Rogers and Guinness has quickly become a central part of its appeal: More than 60 percent of the beer sold here is Ireland’s famous stout. Guinness is booming in Britain, at the head of a nitro-stout trend that shows little sign of slowing. or Ireland.

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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota

VinePair

Through the snowless 60-degree days, however, one boreal harbinger has remained intact: the Russian imperial stout. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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Breweries Are Turning Up the Heat on Winter Beer

Imbibe Magazine

But in 2022, Laura Worley and Wayne Burns decided to shine a new light on the year’s longest, darkest day. They invited customers to gather around crackling flames with strong imperial stouts, barley wines, and plum-flavored winter warmers set to be transformed by the centuries-old German tradition of bierstacheln , or beer spiking.

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Ole Smoky and Yee-Haw Brewing Co. Continue Their Partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank

Chilled Magazine

Through the month of February, a portion of proceeds from Ole Smoky Peanut Butter Whiskey and Yee-Haw Peanut Butter Stout will be donated to Second Harvest. Ole Smoky’s Peanut Butter Whiskey and Yee-Haw Brewing’s Peanut Butter Stout can be purchased at 6th & Peabody , the 30,000 square-foot entertainment complex at 423 6th Avenue.

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This Week's New Beer Labels: All Hail Skilling

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Looks like these beers have existed for a bit, but since these are the first labels that LL has sent to the TTB since late 2022, it’s new enough for me. ” Plus: An aperitivo-inspired barrel aged stout, sharks, chickenhawks, a new eclipse beer, and a beer that honestly could be satire.

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We Asked 12 Bartenders: What’s the Most Underrated Cask-Strength Bourbon?

VinePair

The 2022 release, at 119.8 It is finished in Goose Island Bourbon County Stout barrels, so it is an ex-bourbon cask used to age stout, and then back to being used for bourbon. The 2023 edition, bottled at 118.2 proof, has notes of apple, caramel, and brown sugar with a rich, dessert-like creaminess.

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This Week's Beer News - Black Friday and Beyond

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

I spent money on Bourbon County Stout. So I am now the proud owner of a 2022 BCS Coffee and a 2023 BCS Bananas Foster. Extremely raisin-y and figgy with plenty of creamy stout body but a pretty faded bourbon presence. Guessing this is likely because I selected a 2022 version of the OG. Crazy, right?

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