Stone Imperial Golden Stout (Stochasticity Master of Disguise)

Commercial Beer Reviews
1

According to the label, it is brewed with 2-row, amber malt, carapils, and flaked oats as well as coffee and cocoa.

This is really interesting beer.  I’m not quite sure how to describe it, but it has a great roast aroma and flavor as well as the the light chocolate notes you would normally get from darker grains.

I don’t know how they incorporated the coffee without extracting any of the color(or really much coffee flavor other than roastiness), but I’d like to find out.

My only complaint is the noticeable alcohol presence.  It has a sweetness to it that I think undermines the other aromas and flavors a bit (it’s 9.7% ABV).

Overall though, I really enjoyed it and will likely pick up some more.  This would be a fun beer to try to replicate at home, though I’d probably drop the ABV a bit.

2

Sounds a lot like the white stout recipe in the book.

3

I asked about that at cascade with their white coffee stout and they told me the coffee is used in such low volumes compared to the beer that there is not enough color contribution to make a visible difference.