A sweet strong stout. Strong aromas of chocolate and vanilla. A thick visquous mouthfeel leads to a chocolate milk character and finishes with a light smokey/ashy character from the rum soaked wood spirals and dark malts added.
Notable Ingredients:
Grist: Pale Malt: Quality base malt Roasted Barley: Nice intense coffee flavor, with a slight acrid bite. Chocolate Malt: Gives nice flavors and aromas of coffee and chocolate
Lactose: A milk sugar used to add a nice sweet fullness to the beer.
Hops:
East Kent Goldings: A nice English hop. Smooth bitterness with a nice floral quality.
Other:
Vanilla: Vanilla beans added to increase the vanilla experience
Rum Soaked Oak Spirals: Contribute to a slight barrel character along with oak/vanilla/rum spice notes. The oak spirals where soaked in a combination of; brown sugar, blueberries, navel oranges, SK spiced rum, and a vanilla bean. The oak spirals then were carmalized over a hickory smoke.
Specialty Stouts
ABV:
8.30%
JDub's Brewing Company
Sarasota, Florida