Stout

Aug 22, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 7 Comments

Beer and Chocolate: Sapporo x Royce Chocolat Brewery Bitter

This limited release from Sapporo and apostrophe’d Japanese confectioner Royce’ is a strange Belgian nightmare; multiple vices backsliding into a brown can of depravity. Hops bitterness and cacao bitterness are perfect partners, malty and chocolate-y sublime and congruent combinations. Beer and chocolate works together. But these two really don’t. The

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Sep 28, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Hite touts shite stout

Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Scouting about for a stout with no clout? Shout for Hite Stout. There are two things wrong with this stout. Firstly, that it’s black; and secondly, that it is not labelled as “lager” anywhere on the bottle. It is beer at its most deceptive. It’s

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