Yellow Rose Wildcatters Crude Stout

Formerly brewed at Great Grains Brewery, Inc.
Style: Sweet Stout
Dallas, Texas USA

This is to beer as oil is to beer. This is horrific crap, with hints of cauliflower and rotten roasted malt. Water, water, everywhere in this beer, and not a drop fit to drink.

Joe made me do it. I swear! I didn’t want to buy it, honest. Actually had this before and thought it was okay, but as I have no respect for the allowance of outdated bottles filling space that could be used for better product and the fact that unsuspecting souls may easily be lead to believe that this isn’t as rancid as it is, I will not mince words. Lactic, acidic - but not in a pleasant way nor is the oxidized matter that I almost made myself finish before I said the punishment was enough. Sad.

Still available...bottom of the coolers at S & K’s in Plano, among other places. And you know, I’ve had worse. This was especially palatable when it was relatively cold from the fridge. It poured a dark ruby-black with a bountiful dark beige head. The aroma, when cold, let out coffee, roasted essences with notes of grape, vinyl, and licorice. The flavor was similarly roasted and relatively pleasing--at first--although the palate is quite light. It is to stouts what something with Woodforde’s Norfolk Nip is to barleywines: you’re expecting thick, but you get an explosion in the mouth. That’s not bad, actually: not every stout has to be thick and oily, although with a name like "Crude Stout" I was expecting something more akin to a viscous fluid. Unfortunately, as it warmed, I started to get more sour notes from it, not exactly lactic, more just subtly vinegary, and then it got too much. So, I would say, keep it cold and drink it fast. But even with these problems, if you haven’t had it and you see it around, I would spring for it--at $2.50 for an unfiltered, unpasteurized beer, if it has been well kept it has the potential for having evolved a bit, and it isn’t terrible.

Not too bad, but not one of my favorites. The dark color is reminiscent of an oatmeal stout , but the flavor lacks the sweetness. It has hints of coffee and roasted chocolates in both the aroma and the taste. I’d give it a B+.

Had this from a pint bottle. This black beer came flowing out of the bottle with a ton of carbonation. Aroma was roasted and chocolatey; very pleasureable. The flavor had lots of deep rostedness and chocolate but the zing from the carbonation really detracted from the flavor. Some acidity in the aftertaste.

Appearance: deepest, darkest black, with significant speckles floating throughout, and a sturdy brown head above, similarly dotted, and heroically long-lived. Aroma: briskly bitter, distinctly espresso-ish, rich and roasted, velvety, divine. Taste: smooth deliverance on the tongue, and full of flavor, very sweet, chocolatey, caramelly... A bit lighter in body than I like my stouts, but otherwise, an excellent example. I enjoyed this all the way down the big, bad bottle!

Poured opaque black with a thin tan head and BIG floaties...by big I mean physically they were big....not a lot of little ones like some bottle conditioned Belgians, LARGE 1/16-1/8 of an inch stuff...some you could feel actually pass your lips...I am honestly not sure the age of this bottle...I know it is brewed by Great Grains now, but my bottle still says Yellow Rose and the phone number on the bottle was answered by a slightly irritated lady when I called to just see what would happen (since YR closed [also it was 1 AM, I guess I’m just rude])... Smell is roasty with some chocolate...taste is rather bland...there isn’t a whole lot going on at all...just roasted maltiness, some nuts, chocolate and coffee...finish is acidic and a little bitter...

dark almost black color with a fluffy tan head with yeasties or some other specks floating in it. roast chocolate aroma. taste is oil and low grade chocolate malts. doesn’t start well, and ends the same way/ best great grains product yet, but that is not saying much. this does not compare well with other stouts and finishes bitter and watery