Had this beauty on Saturday, it's an imperial chocolate stout called "Accept all Cookies" by my local craft brewer Siren in collaboration with American (Florida) brewer Slim Pickens. It's a 9.3% imperial stout made with lactose, cacao nibs and husks, Muscovado and vanilla, it tasted just like the famous Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice-cream, but with alcohol and bubbles! It was a very nice drink, but I could only manage a half, after that it would probably get a bit cloying, not to mention make you fall over!
It's amazing the kinds of mouthfeel that brewers manage to achieve with stouts and imperial stouts these days, an almost treacle like consistency that is both sweet and bitter at the same time (if that's not a contradiction). There are many such beers on the market at the moment and I can't help wondering if we've seen peak-cookie yet? Much like haziness in beers particularly extreme appearance or taste attributes tend to be limited in their scope of interest as people discover them and get excited until their hype threshold is reached and then re-discover older styles or a new one comes along.
The modern brewing market seems to be a bit like that these days, one hype-cycle after another! Long may it continue as, personally, I'm a fairly superficial type and my attention span is short! Of course I always tell people that I just love trying new things which, as we all know, on a CV is code for "flighty"..
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