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While the urge to guzzle Guinness on St. Patrick's Day may be overpowering, there's no need to follow the herd -- or subject yourself to (gasp!) green beer. These 10 stouts are every bit the flavorful alternative. And yes, if you ask nicely, we'll even draw a shamrock in the beer's foam.
Bell's Kalamazoo Stout:
The marvelous Michigan stout pours coal-black, with an aroma of roasted malt and a licorice-like flavor blended with bittersweet chocolate.
Rogue's Shakespeare Stout:
Inky with a fat brown head, Shakespeare tastes like mocha coffee reimagined as beer.
Sierra Nevada Stout:
This affordable, widely available stout doesn't disappoint, providing a creamy body with roasted bitterness and a little hint of hops.
Bar Harbor Brewing's Cadillac Mountain Stout:
Hailing from Bar Harbor, Maine, this incredibly smooth sipper recalls milk chocolate mixed with a little caramel.
Bison Organic's Chocolate Stout:
Coffee dominates the flavor, with notes of dark chocolate shining through on the finish. It's even better if you let it warm up a bit.
AleSmith's Speedway Stout:
California's AleSmith has created a rich stout with a fragrance of espresso and oak that, despite its double-digit alcohol content, remains velvety and completely drinkable.
Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout:
Light a fire, pour this black-hole-colored concoction into a snifter and spend hours savoring its chocolaty, boozy, belly-warming pleasures.
Great Divide's Yeti Imperial Stout:
Holy abominable beer! The Yeti's as viscous as engine oil, packing a pungent, earthy scent of dark chocolate and bitter flavors of fresh-roasted coffee.
Left Hand's Milk Stout:
Brewed with lactose (hence the term milk stout), this Colorado beer drinks creamy, mild and slightly chocolaty. The low ABV -- 5.2 percent -- means you can easily sip several.
Murphy's Irish Stout:
Guinness may get all the Irish accolades, but Murphy's is equally magnificent. It offers a thick, cloud-like head and roasty bitterness that leads to a pleasingly dry finish.
What stouts do you savor? Spill it in the comments.
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3-10-2010 @5:23PM Danner said... there is a tiny brewery near houston called Southern Star and their stout (I think called buried hatched) is the best I have ever had...
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3-13-2010 @6:48PM colt23 said... im not a beer drinker yet cause i am too young but if ur into hops and an all around goood IPA beer it is the Ballast Point Brewing Big eye it has the best overall IPA. also if u want a beer and food in the Orange county area the place to go is Tustin Brewery overall it is very good they have beers on tap from stouts to barley wine to IPA's.
3-13-2010 @8:12PM collin said... Youngs Double Chocolate Stout is the SHIIIIIT.
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3-14-2010 @3:32AM Wish Belkin said... Sam Adams makes a stout, but it has a licorice taste to it.
Bottom line, it doesn't get better than Guiness.
3-22-2010 @5:41PM Jason Randles said... What about Deschutes Brewery's Obsidian Stout? It recently was awarded Grand Champion for the entire Stout Category at the 2010 United States Beer Tasting Challenge and received 93 points from the 2010 Beer Tasting Institutes Winter Ale Competition.
3-10-2010 @10:09PM Keith said... Tsunami Stout from Pelican Brewery in Pacific City, OR.
http://www.pelicanbrewery.com/pages/brewery-pages/brew-Tsunami.html
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3-10-2010 @10:06PM Kevin said... Beamish is a good Irish stout. It's hard to find in anything but cans in the US, although there is one bar I know of in Philly called Westy's that carries it on tap.
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3-10-2010 @10:29PM Daniel F. said... I agree, Beamish is just as traditional as Guiness, generally cheaper, and as near as makes no difference taste-wise.
3-14-2010 @3:43AM Jay said... Right on with Beamish Stout recommendation. There is a Beamish Red that I prefer but the stout is great also. Wish more places carried it.
3-11-2010 @12:12AM James McA. said... Squatters Pub in Salt Lake City brews up Captain Bastard's Oatmeal Stout. That's got my vote. Still...Guinness on St. Paddy's is a must. The shamrock drawn in the head is mandatory. BTW, is ordering an Irish Car Bomb in an Irish pub in poor taste?
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3-14-2010 @2:20PM Rick said... I was in studying in Belfast 2 years ago and was lucky enough to be there on SPD too =) If I remember correctly they called them f-bombs.
3-11-2010 @2:00AM Avi said... Ooh! You got my favorites -- Goose Island, Rogue, and Great Divide! The oak-aged Yeti is fantastic. Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate is good too, and Southern Tier makes great stouts.
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3-11-2010 @7:59AM Elizabeth said... Oh my lord, you are missing out by not mentioning Founders Breakfast Stout. It's very nearly a perfect beer.
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3-13-2010 @8:28PM BeerDoug said... Founder's Breakfast Stoudt is the best thing out there, to be sure! check out www.beeradvocate.com for more!!
3-20-2010 @10:52AM ted said... Founders is great, youngs chocolate is one of my favorites love rogue but how about samual smiths the oatmeal stout and imperial stout are both delicious and reasonably priced
3-11-2010 @8:09AM Gerry said... McAuslan`s St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout, up in Quebec. Thicker, darker, richer, headier than Guinness, and highly sympathetic to an accompanying glass of single malt
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3-11-2010 @11:13AM Nick said... Oskar Blues Ten FIDY Imperial Stout. 10.5% ABV - thicker, darker and smooth the whole way down.
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