Flavor with your stout?

Peanut butter and chocolate or coffee. I like blueberry too.

 

Anything that makes the stout almost unbearably sweet, like vanilla and maple syrup. I can't get enough because I still have the taste buds of a 5 year old.

 

One of the things that stood out to me the first time I tried an Old Raspy (first RIS I had upon returning to the craft game) was that even though no additional flavors were added, I could get hints of vanilla, fig (or dates), certainly coffee and chocolate. Based on that experience, I sought out flavored stouts, only to find that at best the flavors were still muted and therefore underwhelming based on how the beer was billed, or the flavor was contrived, therefore way out of balance with sweetness or with, well, flavoring. So now I try flavored stouts with a bit of jadedness. Of them all (flavorings) I still lean towards vanilla as a nice added flavor, but have also grown fond of raspberry. Of course I will always love BA'd stouts, which can never really get too old for me.

 

Vanilla, Coffee, Chocolate, Berries, Maple, Cinnamon, Peppers, Coconut, I love them all, and probably roughly in that order. BCBVS, BCBCS, and Backyard Rye are three incredible beers, for easy examples.

 

Mexican hot chocolate.

 

Milk, coffee, bourbon, cappuccino, vanilla