Red Racer No Friends on a Powder Day
Central City Brewers + Distillers

Central City Brewers 'RR No Friends on a Powder Day' @ 5.0% , served from a 355 ml can
A-pour is cola brown from the can to an almost black in the glass with a small dissipating tan head leaving no lace
S-vanilla
T-sweet vanilla dominates thru out
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-too sweet , nuff said
prost LampertLand

First beer out of the beer advent calendar... which we are opening Christmas day instead. This beer is all about the vanilla and it does it very well. The vanilla is there in the smell and the taste, assertive but still playing well with the stout flavour. Would be great in a beer float or otherwise as part of a dessert course.

355ml can - day 1 of the 2018 Parallel 49/Red Racer Alpine Adventure Pack. A Vanilla Stout.

This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some stellar tacky snow rime pattern lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, vanilla extract, milk chocolate, a hint of earthy smoke, and very subtle earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, vanilla pudding, bittersweet cocoa powder, brown sugar, some plain black stone fruity notes, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly timid in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a dense medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess pretty much there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the vanilla/cocoa character presiding over the lingering experience.

Overall - yup, this is definitely one for those with a sweet tooth, but I suppose that it is seasonal, and all that. Good in small doses, as I don't think my palate could take more than one of these, which I suppose is a back-handed compliment, but whaddya gonna do, eh?