It’s stout season.

My regular drinking establishment has a brewery about half a mile down the road, Milk Town Brewery, named from the old Unigate milk processing building it’s set up in. They’re doing a really rather wonderful stout at the moment called ‘Burning Rubber’ it’s very dark, and gets its name from the fact that the former Avon Tyres factory is just the other side of the road/river, in Melksham.

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Not sure it’s technically a stout but it’s certainly a cracking dark beer – finally trying Tynt Meadow, brewed by real monks at a real monastery not too far south of here, and I’m suddenly very much in favour of religion. Though at 7% there may be some praying of a different kind if you have too many.

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Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference Winter Porter last night , lush !

Their Chocolate Orange Stout tonight, disgusting tasted like cough medicine poured it down the drain!

 tasted like cough medicine poured it down the drain!

Sadly also describes the Rocky Road/marshmallow stout from Brew Dog experience this evening.

I know it’s unfashionable to say so but a number of their beers are quite acceptable and they make a couple of quite drinkable low alcohol options for the non-artisan occasional drinker.  This was sadly neither.

As a fan of both Rocky Road and of stout I can safely say I am not a fan of them together.

Will need to keep an eye out for the winter stout. Annoying I went there earlier.

On the chocolate orange front. Had Siren crafts Chocolate Orange Tiramisu tonight. Definitely smell of it but drinking more normal stout. Its also a white stout for confusing people out. Recommend.

Last week had some of brew yorks offerings at their taproom.

Nightmare of Brew York 2024 was good as was the Krampus.

Although that said had previously had the nightmare in a can and it didnt quite hit the spot so might be one of those hipster moments of saying best to go to source.

I came on here to recommend the Sainsbury’s chocolate Orange stout, I had it last night and will be buying more.

Can’t recommend this one highly enough. Simply superb.

2024 Export Porter 8% – 330ml

Currently on drought at the taproom also.

@Houns it’s a good job we don’t all like the same thing life would be pretty boring. IMHO it’s the same as what some ” ciders ” have become any cider not made with apples a modern abomination!

There’s a local one I had in a local pub last week. Silent Night made in Somerton Somerset unfortunately only available in a beer box with a short life span.

In the Old Bridge Inn (Aviemore) last night and they had Dark Ness from Loch Ness brewery, promising a rich and creamy stout. It really was – a good sweetness, and definitely creamy.

The Torygraph have finally caught up with us:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/beer/telegraph-readers-best-british-stouts/