Brooklyn Black Ops
Brewed By: Brooklyn Brewing
Brewed In: Brooklyn, NY
ABV: 11.6%
Type: Russian Imperial Stout
What they say: Brooklyn Black Ops does not exist. However, if it did exist, it would be a robust stout concocted by the Brooklyn brewing team under the cover of secrecy and hidden from everyone else at the [...]

Saranac Black & Tan
Brewed By: Matt Brewing Company
Brewed In: Utica, NY
ABV: 5.1%
Type: Black & Tan (Stout/Lager)
What They Say: Saranac Black & Tan is a judicious melding of our classic Irish stout with an all-malt German-style amber lager. The result is a brew that is hearty, pleasantly bitter, and full of flavor, yet can be [...]

Name: Mokah
Brewed By: Southern Tier
Brewed In: Lakewood, NY
Brewed With: 2-row pale malt; 2-row barley; caramel, chocolate & black malts; roasted barley barley flakes; Jamaican roasted coffee; bittersweet Belgian chocolate; chinook, willamette, cascade & columbus hops.
Type: Imperial Stouts blend
ABV: 11%
What they say: When empirical and creative impulses collide, the result is often timeless. The classic utility-art [...]

Kiuchi Espresso Stout
Brewed By: Kiuchi Brewery
Brewed In: Ibaraki, Japan
Type: Stout
ABV: 7.5%
What They Say: Near as I can tell, nothing. This might be a seasonal offering and, as such, is not currently on their website. But their website has no description of this beer and, if there’s one on the bottle itself, it’s in [...]

Saranac gets a pretty bum rap amongst beer snobs. They just kind of plug along, make a bunch of new stuff every year, hit a few home runs, and I guess they produce too much to be considered real snob beers. Besides, can the brewery that makes Utica Club really be that bad? [...]

As I still haven’t gotten my hands on the Michelob Sample Pack, we’ll start with the Top Ten Series
Black Chocolate Stout
Brewed By: Brooklyn Brewery
Brewed In: Brooklyn, NY
Type: Chocolate Stout
ABV: 10.1%
What They Say: On website: This is our famous Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, our award-winning rendition of the Imperial Stout style, once made exclusively for Catherine [...]

Royal Extra Stout
Brewed By: Carib Brewery (Caribbeer… get it?)
Brewed In: Trinidad
ABV: 6.6%
What They Say: Royal Extra stout is a rich, dark, fairly sweet stout, which conveys power, strength and potency/virility.
The brand was inherited from Walters’ Brewery, Port of Spain , in 1952 and was reformulated by Carib Brewery to achieve its distinctively sweet, full-bodied texture [...]

oat Imperial Oatmeal Stout
Brewed By: Southern Tier
Brewed In: Lakewood, NY
Type: Stout
ABV: 11.0%
What They Say: This beer begins in spring when oat seeds are sown as soon as the soil can be worked. Meanwhile, select types of barley are planted with hopes that Mother Nature will be kind. Our brewers wait patiently until the legumes are [...]

I started writing this a couple of weeks ago and put it away because I couldn’t figure out the review format I wanted to use for beer. Then That Raider’s Fan went and made TBG Drinks to go with his TBG Eats series and now I look like a copycat. Then I realized [...]