Your favorite American Stout under 7%

Expand your horizons.

 

Ipswich oatmeal stout. Labeled as 7% here, but it's a touch under.

 

There are thin high abv stouts and there are lower abv stouts with a fuller mouthfeel.

 

I mean I'm always open to try new beers, but not when I know I'll be disappointed. Thin stouts are the worst to me, and anything under 7% is going to be thin. Maybe someone can refer me to a thicker 7% stout?

 

You're definitely right about the thin high ABV stouts, and after I try them I don't get them again. You do have a better chance at getting a thicker stout when you go high abv than you do when you go low abv, though.

 

This right here.

 

If by "American Stout" you are referring to the beers classified as such on this site, then - Kalamazoo.
If you mean stouts made in America, then - Left Hand Milk Stout and Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter.

 

What - you want your straw to stand up in it or something? Maybe you just have developed a taste for beers which are an underattenuated mess...

 

Mean Old Tom
Gellas No 50 Liberty
Dieu du Ciel Aphrodisiaque

 

I don't see it get much love, but i think Avery Out of Bounds Stout is fantastic.

 

Rogue Shakespeare was a pleasant surprise in both the mouthfeel and taste. I expected it to be lackluster due to the abv, but ended up really enjoying it. Recommend giving it a shot.

 

Marble's Oatmeal Stout

 

Favorite Burley Oak Funstout appropriate for their 4th anniversary
readily available Left hand Milk Stout
not quite what asked Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

 

Beaver's Milk

 

I mean, let's not get crazy. But if stouts like DBH, reg huna, assassin, bcbs, etc are underattenuated messes then yea I guess I have.

Thanks for the recommendation! I went and looked it up and apparently rated it some time ago. So I stand corrected, I have had under 7% stouts. I don't really remember how it was but I gave it a 3.75. Maybe I'll have to revisit it.

 

I think most stouts made in England are under 5%

 

Malpais from La Cumbre http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24659/67709/

Nightshade from Abandoned Building in Mass. (7.2 close enough?) http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/34328/142617/

Obsidian http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/197/

Sierra Nevada http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/283/

All very balanced and should not be that hard to get (trade or distro).

 

Barney Flats is a great one if you're talking readily available American brewed stouts.

 

Sierra Nevada's stout is a fantastic hoppy stout, and quite strong at 5.6%. I think it's a classic American beer...