Listen Up Butternut
Southern Grist Brewing Co.

 

 

 

16oz can. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of foam. It left sticky rings of lace on the glass. It smelled of sweet chocolate, vanilla, cream and toffee. Sweet donut-like taste with chocolate, toffee, vanilla and sweet cream.

Got in a trade with hoptheology. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 8/27/2021. Pours hazy opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing on the glass and streaming carbonation. Aromas and flavors of big milk chocolate, fudge, toffee, vanilla, coconut, cream, brownie batter, brown bread; with light molasses, coffee, smoke, char, wood, herbal hops. A wonderful creamy decadence in the aromas, with flavors becoming more on the balancing side. Touch of English yeast fruit and booze in the aromas. Light-moderate herbal, woody, charred bitterness on the finish. Medium plus carbonation and medium-full body; very creamy, silky, velvety, lightly slick/syrupy mouthfeel. Lingering sticky hop and chalky roast balancing dryness after the finish. No cloying/astringent flavors. Nicely soft. Super rich stuff, 9.5% is mildly warming after the finish. I think it may be too young right now. Feels a little too bitter and acrid for a pastry stout, but the balance is perfect with nothing overdone. I feel this will do well in a year or two because I could see the sweetness hitting the ST Crème Brulee spectrum. That would be where I'd want it.

 

 

 

Canned on 08/27/2021. Enjoyed on 09/19/2021.

16 oz can, collab with Blaze Brewing, dated 8/27/21, into Bearded Iris stem.

Pours a slick black body with a stable khaki-beige head of 1/2 finger. A little sticky lace here and there but not much.

Aroma of caramel, fried dough, coconut, dark malts, lactose, and slight chocolate. Smells like a deep-fried Copra Kai.

These guys never miss with coconut. The flavor brings tons of it forward with corn dust, day-old chocolate doughnut, vanilla ice cream on a wooden taster, and a little bit of caramel sauce.

Feel is slick and roasty with a medium body and a moderate amount of alcohol heat. Clings to the palate. As always, SG produces some pretty anorexic stouts. This one is not too bad but is still thinner than I'd like for a stout of this caliber.

Overall, it's a 9.5% beer but it'll be gone before you know it. Lots of caramel delight cookie and coconut. It's tasty. Updating this after having a second can, it really is smooth and enjoyable. It's just sweet enough to satisfy my sweet tooth but doesn't step over. It's not a total pastry stout when put against the current trend, but it definitely gives you doughnuts and cookie vibes. Stout first, dessert second. Very enjoyable.

$18.00 / 4 pack / southerngristbrewing.com