Brew By Numbers - 08|03
Brewery: Brew By Numbers
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.2%
Brewed with: Lactose, Cacao Nibs & Seville Orange Peel
Colour: Midnight Black with a Orange Twist
This stout is slightly underwhelming but still very, very tasty. With ‘chocolate & orange’ plastered across the front I expected to be drinking a liquid, alcoholic terry’s chocolate orange but unfortunately this is not the case.
Despite this, it is a great stout brewed with lactose, creating a wonderfully smooth and luxurious mouthfeel to compliment the huge dark malty notes of chocolate, caramel and honey. The cacao nibs enhance the chocolatey notes and the seville orange sits at the back of the mouth just tickling the tongue with a splash of bitter orange.
This is a bitter-sweet stout that slips back incredibly easily with little to no alcohol burn, I could drink this all night and not get bored of its slow burn of flavour in the mouth. There is little carbonation on the bottles which allows the dark roasted malt flavours to dance on your tongue without being overly bitter.
On the nose there is a bigger orange hit with lovely dark roasted malt notes that entice into the beautifully silky smooth body and dark colour. I love this beer but I admit, I was expecting much bigger and orangey things.
