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Big City Brewing Jamaica Stout
For the record Linda hasn’t brought me any beers from her travels so she is officially on notice. You know who is kind enough to bring me beer, the BOMC. Ben took the lighter offerings for this month and I’m responsible for the Jamaica Stout from Jamaica (couldn’t really find out much about the brewers) and a Vanilla Porter from Atwater Brewery in Detriot Rock City. I’ve had some good experiences with stouts this past winter so I’m hoping this stout caps off the end of my dark beer drinking season.
I’m a bit surprised that a brewery in Jamaica made a stout, given the warm climate, but I guess its important to experience a wide range of delicious beer genres regardless of temperature. This beer is uber black with a fluffy caramel head that rises and falls in the glass. The nose is mostly comprised of the characteristic chocolate aroma and is rounded out with a mild toastiness. Now to the taste. I’m getting a little chocolate that dances about the tongue and a bitter twinge sticks to the roof of the mouth. So far, it’s not bad, definitely tolerable. The flavor isn’t as sweet as the smell and a coffee bitterness opens on the back of the palate. This beer isn’t entirely balanced and there is a mustiness to the aftertaste but overall it is easily drinkable. Not the best stout ever but certainly not the worst. If you’re ever in Jamaica and don’t want to drink a Redstripe or whatever bucket of beers the resort has on special give this beer a try. You won’t be able to drink a lot of them but it will be something different.
