Gary The White
Colonial Brewing Company

Pours a gold colour with slight cloud to it. Head is white, creamy-dense and just sticking like a great gelatinous glob on the top of the body. Beautiful hand-pulled look.

Smells quite sweet. Residual malt flavour with a touch of honey, caramel and lots of vanilla. Slight clove character as well. Could use a bit more spice.

Vanilla again on the palate. Again quite malty with some buttery notes but some decent spice character on the back - coriander mostly with a slight spike of white pepper. Amps up the spice as I would have liked on the nose, but still not enough to eradicate that sweetness which still dominates. Not bad.

Full body, fluid and almost thick. Again nice hand-pulled texture.

Creamy, sweet beer. Not really noticing the 'strong'-ness.

A 6.8% White Stout, with a description in the notes pointing out the difference between a "stout beer" in general and a "stout porter" in particular. This is the former, but not the latter.

Pours a solid golden colour, mostly clear in the body, with a pleasant heft to it. Head is very full and rich, and just turning creamy in hue. Lacing forms in pleasantly thick sheets and the carbonation seems to be so languid that it sticks to the glass. Looks good.

Smooth, rich caramel on the nose, indeed perhaps even trending towards white chocolate to provide a marvelous light counterpoint to its stout porter cousins. Some spice and eve a slight suggestion of vegetative chilli. It is a little light in weight, but it's very pleasant.

Light and spicy on the front palate before those sweet, smooth caramel characters come through providing a full-weighted mid palate. There's a hint of booze, but this quickly chases out much of the other characters, and then evaporates itself, leaving the back quite light and dry. Some body lingers though, leaving a pretty rich feel through to the end.

Overall, this is actually pretty lovely stuff. Smooth and solid and rich, without attempting anything too weird.