Mystery Beer One (2025)
Lake of Bays Brewing Company
- From:
- Lake of Bays Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 13, 2026
- Added:
- Jan 13, 2026
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Malts: 2-Row Pale, Chocolate Wheat, Flaked Oats
Hops: Magnum
Other: Cane sugar, Chocolate chip cookie natural flavouring
Hops: Magnum
Other: Cane sugar, Chocolate chip cookie natural flavouring
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO, included in their 2025 Toasty Toes sampler pack; no discernible canning date. Served barely chilled.
Pours black as night, scaring up an inch of foamy, tan-coloured head that fizzles within ninety seconds or so. A modest collar of soapy suds lives on, generating a few patches of lace with each tilt or swirl of the glass; looks normal enough so far. Sweet aroma of chocolate syrup, chocolate chip cookies, dark chocolate, roasted malts, vanilla and coffee.
The flavours are palatable enough, but overall the profile is not very cohesive. The chocolate chip cookie flavouring is prominent, but I'm also getting chocolate syrup, cacao nibs and roasted grains, as well as a touch of vanilla. More chocolate on the back end, with hints of coffee, chocolate chips and cookie dough lingering into a bittersweet aftertaste that dries off slowly. Medium in body, with low carbonation; the mouthfeel is silky-smooth and a little slick. Finishing one glass is not much of an issue, but I lost interest in this stout pretty quickly.
Final Grade: 3.61, an acceptable B grade. While I don't necessarily think that Mystery Beer One is a *bad* stout (or porter?), I don't think it's an especially good one, either. Call me old-fashioned, or a purist, or whatever - but when you add pastry flavourings to a relatively light (5.6%) stout, you need to be really careful not to overdo it. Sure, you might get away with that in an imperial stout, but in this case? It just overpowers the base beer, and you end up with this weird, saccharine flavoured stout that doesn't move the needle much, at least not for me. I don't think I'd buy this as a single, but to each their own.
Jan 13, 2026Pours black as night, scaring up an inch of foamy, tan-coloured head that fizzles within ninety seconds or so. A modest collar of soapy suds lives on, generating a few patches of lace with each tilt or swirl of the glass; looks normal enough so far. Sweet aroma of chocolate syrup, chocolate chip cookies, dark chocolate, roasted malts, vanilla and coffee.
The flavours are palatable enough, but overall the profile is not very cohesive. The chocolate chip cookie flavouring is prominent, but I'm also getting chocolate syrup, cacao nibs and roasted grains, as well as a touch of vanilla. More chocolate on the back end, with hints of coffee, chocolate chips and cookie dough lingering into a bittersweet aftertaste that dries off slowly. Medium in body, with low carbonation; the mouthfeel is silky-smooth and a little slick. Finishing one glass is not much of an issue, but I lost interest in this stout pretty quickly.
Final Grade: 3.61, an acceptable B grade. While I don't necessarily think that Mystery Beer One is a *bad* stout (or porter?), I don't think it's an especially good one, either. Call me old-fashioned, or a purist, or whatever - but when you add pastry flavourings to a relatively light (5.6%) stout, you need to be really careful not to overdo it. Sure, you might get away with that in an imperial stout, but in this case? It just overpowers the base beer, and you end up with this weird, saccharine flavoured stout that doesn't move the needle much, at least not for me. I don't think I'd buy this as a single, but to each their own.
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