Samuel Smith Imperial Stout

Rating: neutral

Dark and bubbly. Main complaints are bitterness and oily mouth feel.

Origin: England

St. Peters Cream Stout

Rating: neutral

I'm not sure what I thought a cream stout was going to be, maybe Irish dry stouts have shaped my opinion too heavily. I did not enjoy this. It's dark in the glass, fairly carbonated, and disappointingly has none of the coffee, chocolate, vanilla, carmel, or other mild flavors I was hoping for, and that many other stouts have. This was not as good as, say, Guinness extra stout, while being roughly the same style in my opinion.

Origin: England

Young's double chocolate stout

Rating: positive

Excellent dry stout, nitrogen widget in the can actually makes this one better in the can than the bottle. Like other nitrogen dry stouts (guinness, murphys) it has the cascading foam effect when poured in a glass. Feel is extremely smooth and thick, taste is slightly sweet and smoky with an actually noticeable aftertaste of chocolate. Possibly my favorite beer.

Drinking it cold doesn't just lessen the intensity of the flavor like with most beers. It actually changes it to taste less like beer and more like chocolate. Try it at several temperatures to find the perfect one.

Origin: England

Samuel Smith nut brown ale

Rating: positive

Smooth, again not too bubbly, dark brown in the glass. Always a favorite.

Origin: England

Samuel Smith the celebrated oatmeal stout

Rating: positive

It's a dark, smooth -tasting oatmeal stout. One of the better examples of the style. Not too bubbly, not overly sweet. I enjoy it most served cool but not ice cold, to better appreciate the flavor.

Origin: England