Yukon Midnight Sun Espresso Stout

Brewed by Yukon Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Whitehorse, Canada

Courtesy SoLan. Dark brown pour, nearly black, sparse loose light tan head. Slightly bitter, mostly roasty aroma, mild chocolate background. Mild, almost bland taste for an espresso stout, light coffee notes and light roast.

Noire foncée, cette stout offre uniquement des flaveurs de café. Se boit quand même facilement pour une bière de type café (ce qui est loin d’être mon genre préféré).

Thanks to JMFG and SoLan for enjoying this brew with me during a kung-fu cipher in the hood. Pretty standard coffee stout with a nice coffee aroma and flavor with roasted nuts and cocoa.

341 mL bottle. Pretty much black, with a solid beige head. Lots of espresso in the aroma, along with old campfire and a little black licorice. Flavour is not as big as the aroma. It’s sweeter than expected, with chocolate milk, cappuchino, and toffee. Some roast bitterness in the finish. Body is surprisingly thin. I’ll try this one again.

Yummy!! Just as good as I remembered. Beer poured black with a dark brown head. The thing that threw me off about this beer is it had a very dirt like smell, high quality dirt mind you none of that normal garden stuff but high quality compost. There was also a strong coffee smell but that wasn’t unexpected. On to the first sweg........ holy silky smooth Batman, this stuff is thick and creamy very soft feeling, it feels like my mouth has been upholstered in velvet. The taste hits you with a double barel blast of coffee and I’m detecting a strawberry cream in the back ground (Beerchronic disagrees with me) very full flavor. Me likes this beer a lot.

Bouteille de 341 ml. Arômes de café et de chocolat noir. Robe noire et opaque, très peu de mousse et effervescence à grosses bulles. Plutôt mince en bouche, le café est présent mais moins que l’odeur pouvait le laisser croire. On note une touche de chocolat et de céréales grillées. Finale légèrement astringente.

bouteille de 341ml., bière noire peu de mousse qui ne dure pas. nez de forte torréfaction. bouche avec une bonne amertume, torréfaction encore. agréable, longue en bouche. bonne bière.

3,95$ for a 341 ml bottle, at SAQ. This is the only canadian beer from outside Quebec available in any SAQ... Rather shameful because I’m sure there are some good beers brewed in the ROC (Quebec way of saying the rest of Canada, the english 3/4 of Canada) This beer is like "wow"! One of the best stouts I had in bottle, mostly because of its rich and thick texture. Pleasing intense aroma, reddish black color. Taste is very coffeish, dark chocolatish and quite bitter for a stout. Tongue-tingling for sure! Some interesting subtilities. Gets sweeter as it gets warmer. Great english-canadian brew. I’ll buy some more but not as often as I’d like to because it gets too expensive, after "thrudgin’ across the tundra, mile after mile" to get here!