Ritual White Stout
Powerhouse Brewing Company
- From:
- Powerhouse Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 17, 2026
- Added:
- May 17, 2026
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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Our new White Stout is light in colour but big in flavour — crafted with Cholaca, coffee, vanilla, lactose, and toasted coconut for a stout experience unlike anything you’ve tasted.
Inspired by pagan symbolism and winter solstice energy, this beer is brewed for those who embrace the strange, the bold, and the extraordinary.
Inspired by pagan symbolism and winter solstice energy, this beer is brewed for those who embrace the strange, the bold, and the extraordinary.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the brewery; dated Nov 20 2025 and served barely chilled.
Pours a hazy, muddy brownish-amber colour with copper-orange highlights. Nearly two fingers of bubbly, soapy off white head collects at the surface before descending quickly; a few minutes later, only a thin, frothy collar has survived. Good lace deposition; looks fine so far. I'm getting an earthy note of coffee grounds on the nose, as well as hints of cocoa, chocolate syrup and toasted coconut. It's stout-like, but the coffee seems to be the only source of roastiness.
It's not perfect, but it comes close to approximating a normal stout; I'm getting toasted malts, together with milk chocolate, coffee, cocoa and milk sugar sweetness. Vanilla, toasted coconut and roasted coffee flavours dominate the back end, with a mildly sweet aftertaste that lingers. Closer in feel to a milk stout, I'd say. Medium-bodied, with relatively low carbonation that rolls softly along the tongue, adding a gentle bite to this brew's smooth mouthfeel. Fair drinkability, but it's not something I could sit down and drink multiples of.
Final Grade: 3.79, a B+. I've had a handful of white/pale stouts in the past, and I will say that I like Ritual more than most. The array of bonus ingredients that they used here help tremendously with 'faking' the stout experience, while additions such as vanilla, lactose and toasted coconut are used judiciously, adding depth without becoming a distraction. That being said, I'm still left wondering why I would want to drink this over an actual stout - I mean, if I'm actually in the mood for a stout, I'm always going to want the real deal, not a convincing facsimile. I still think this is one of the better Powerhouse products I've had so far, and it's worth trying if you're stopping by the brewery.
May 17, 2026Pours a hazy, muddy brownish-amber colour with copper-orange highlights. Nearly two fingers of bubbly, soapy off white head collects at the surface before descending quickly; a few minutes later, only a thin, frothy collar has survived. Good lace deposition; looks fine so far. I'm getting an earthy note of coffee grounds on the nose, as well as hints of cocoa, chocolate syrup and toasted coconut. It's stout-like, but the coffee seems to be the only source of roastiness.
It's not perfect, but it comes close to approximating a normal stout; I'm getting toasted malts, together with milk chocolate, coffee, cocoa and milk sugar sweetness. Vanilla, toasted coconut and roasted coffee flavours dominate the back end, with a mildly sweet aftertaste that lingers. Closer in feel to a milk stout, I'd say. Medium-bodied, with relatively low carbonation that rolls softly along the tongue, adding a gentle bite to this brew's smooth mouthfeel. Fair drinkability, but it's not something I could sit down and drink multiples of.
Final Grade: 3.79, a B+. I've had a handful of white/pale stouts in the past, and I will say that I like Ritual more than most. The array of bonus ingredients that they used here help tremendously with 'faking' the stout experience, while additions such as vanilla, lactose and toasted coconut are used judiciously, adding depth without becoming a distraction. That being said, I'm still left wondering why I would want to drink this over an actual stout - I mean, if I'm actually in the mood for a stout, I'm always going to want the real deal, not a convincing facsimile. I still think this is one of the better Powerhouse products I've had so far, and it's worth trying if you're stopping by the brewery.
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