Five on Five

stout is a topic they feel For a lot of craft brewers, romantic—about. deeply passionate—if not an ode to the style, In what can only be considered their favorite stouts. these brewers rave about

Luke Holgate

in Asheville, North Carolina Head Brewer at Hi-wire Brewing Great Divide (Denver, Colorado) “I love Oak-aged Yeti from or a bourbon stout, a rum stout, because it isn’t a neutral, oak-aged red wine stout; it is a straightforward, based on the previous stout. They don’t use barrels flavors beer doesn’t have any spirit or wine in it, so the managed to create a really to hide behind. They have characteristics.” complex beer with oak

Dave Mclean

Pub & Brewery in San Brewmaster at Magnolia Francisco, California in the late eighties in Boston “I started drinking stouts craft examples plus and found a few early local Kingdom (such as some classics from the United I moved to California in Samuel Smith’s). But when Brewing Company’s San 1991, I discovered Marin (Larkspur, California). I was Quentin Breakout Stout of assertive roast blown away by the combination mouthfeel from the character and smooth creamy a brighter hops character flaked barley. It also had in other stouts. To me, it than anything I had found became a reference standard was very West Coast and big American stouts. I love for what I liked about did twenty-five years ago.” it just as much today as I

Ryan Krill

May, Brewing Company in Cape President of Cape May New Jersey Blues Ten FIDY (Lyons, “Sweet and coating Oskar and density of the beer. Colorado)! I enjoy the molasses of it makes all the worries And at 10.5 percent ABV, running a brewery disappear.”

Ethan Osborne

Brewing Co. in Denver, Head Brewer at Great Divide Colorado barrel-aged stout has to “Right now, my favorite (Bend, Oregon). What I be Deschutes The Abyss of vanilla and roasted pick up first is the aroma notes of bourbon. It is malts followed by huge chocolate lacing and viscous and sticky with The beer tastes of has an incredible mouthfeel. and oak followed up coffee, heavy roasted malts, Yay, beer!” with hints of red wine.

Shaun O’sullivan

at 21st Amendment Brewery Cofounder and Brewmaster in San Francisco, California Stout (San Leandro, “High Water Brewing Campfire the most interesting stout California). It is arguably that has captured exactly out there. Here is a beer s’more while sitting what the name describes—a with graham crackers around the campfire. Brewed flavor coupled with and toasted marshmallow it works on all those levels. chocolate and dark malts, beer is an award-winner.” There is a reason this