Perfect Stout Bomber - Big Bear Black Stout

IMO the perfect stout. If anybody else know a better one let me know.

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grifty
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Hmmm. A perfect American stout - perhaps. A perfect stout? Depends on mood IMO. Lately I've been really into highly quaffable dry Irish stouts, only I cannot seem to find very many of them around Colorado. Wynkoop, a brewpub in Denver, made a really great one for St. Pat's but it's now gone (the beer not Wynkoop).

My first bottle of Bear Republic stout I thought was amazing, a great beer. The second bottle and all I could think was how similar it seemed to Sierra Nevada stout. So similar in fact that I began to have misgivings about paying $4.50 for a bottle when I could have gotten a sixer of Sierra for $6.99... More tasting is in order!

_Randal

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Randal

You guys will probably have a hard time finding it, but bejayzus: Ipswich Oatmeal Stout in the brewery-filled 64 oz. growler. Now THERE is a perfect stout bomber!

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Lew Bryson

I can't rave enough about Ipswich Oatmeal Stout. Two years after first tasting it, I remain enthralled by the stuff. It's outrageously rich and delicious.

All of the Ipswich beers (made by Mercury Brewing) are great; they are all packed with malt and hop flavors. Ipswich Dark Ale, Winter Ale, and Porter are delicious. But the Oatmeal Stout is where they pull out all the stops.

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Kenji

Bear Republic's Stout has way more malty richness to it than Sierra Nevada Stout, which sometimes tastes to me as if the hops are running amok. Ipswich Oatmeal is even hoppier than Sierra Nevada stout, but it's got the malt base to support a ridiculous amount of hops.

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Kenji

Amen to that, but I think the Porter's even more so. But, um...I have to admit...it's been three years since I had a SN Porter. Might be time to re-visit.

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Lew Bryson

"Lew Bryson" wrote on 09 May 2005:

Eh. I suppose the bottle I drank last week was tired, then; I wasn't impressed. It had probably been sitting in the NYCHG raffle bin for a few months by the time I won it.

Not much Ipswich seen in the city. Hey Lew - what's their distribution these days?

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

You "won" stale beer? Wow, you NYC homebrewers really know how to party. Too bad you don't advertise your meetings more widely, maybe I'd show up.

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Joel

Good idea. I might just pick up the stout and the porter for a little side-by-side.

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Joel

Dunno, but dba often has Ipswich on tap, and in real good shape. Okay, last time I saw it there was a year ago. So I'll stick with dunno. The 12 oz. bottles are brewed and bottled at Clipper City, in Baltimore, BTW.

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Lew Bryson

Way more? I gotta do a side by side then because it has been quite a while since I had the pleasure of SN stout. I always kind of liked the amok time hops in both the porter and the stout.

_Randal

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Randal

running

It's funny, I've always found Sierra Nevada's Porter to be more balanced than their Stout. I'll have to join some of the others in tasting them again side-to-side.

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Kenji

"Lew Bryson" wrote on 10 May 2005:

Yeah, I used to see them there all the time. Seven years ago. Now it's rare, unfortunately. The bottles say Mercury Brewing Co. as the brewing location, so, that ain't proper.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

snipped-for-privacy@see.headers (Joel) wrote on 10 May 2005:

I'll sign you up! I hear you can brew beer! Do you make anything that tastes like Heineken? That's the best beer ever.

For the record, it probably ought not to have been stale; it couldn't have been in the raffle bin more than a couple months. Blame the retailer.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

I make something that tastes *exactly* like Heineken. In fact, I don't really brew beer, I just rebottle it and say I brewed it. So you want something that tastes like Heineken, Stella, Smithwick's, Corona, or bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, I've got some *right here*.

So are you boys planning to make a big splash down in Baltimore in June?

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Joel

Uh-oh, someone who's tall and sarcastic is out of the loop... Ipswich got bought by a former brewer, Rob Martin, who renamed the place Mercury Brewing, and contracted Ipswich there; he bought the brand outright last year (I think) and now he's the Ipswich man, but the brewery is properly named Mercury Brewing.

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Lew Bryson

Since I assume that you served it at a decent (aka not too cold) temperature, I'll just note that this brew, and many other similar stout or porter brews, doesn't like to be stored warm. If it wasn't treated well it becomes... ordanary at best.

If you care go buy a bottle from someone who knows beer and see if it is amazingly better. I've heard glowing reports, but haven't found much upstate (NY).

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Bill Davidsen

Rob Martin is the son-in-law of someone I know from work, and we (the beer drinking part of the family) have been thinking about a weekend in eastern MA sampling all the house brews he makes for places in that area. The mercurybrewing website lists 13 places which have house brews, that's doable in a weekend, I would think.

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Bill Davidsen

Rob's a real nice guy, get him in the loop and he'll be happy to help out. And the beers are excellent. Nice to see a brewery run by a brewer. You're gonna have fun.

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Lew Bryson

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