This is a delicious Cumbrian treat, from a brewery that is "100% renewably powered".Stringers do five regular ales and two seasonals. This stout, along with their Dark Country beer, is vegan-suitable.
It pours dense and dark - proper dark like those regions Joseph Conrad wrote about. The head is rusty and enduring, and the nose is a sumptuous casserole of roasted and wispy chocolate aromas.
The sup is creamy and full of smoke, an extremely alluring old-school collision of proper industrial stout tastes. It's wonderfully smooth, but lively in all the correct ways, heady chocolate malt carried aloft on a very appropriate 4.5%abv chassis.
The finish tails to dry, but perhaps not the dominant dehydration suggested in the title. It's evaporative in the right way, leaving dark flavours and fond memories on the tongue.
8/10 - Wonderful northern stout - buy without hesitation, enjoy without regret.
- The Broadside
A big thanks to Stringers for sending this to review.
You can buy their beers here at mybrewerytap or alesbymail
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