Baird Brewing Shimaguni Stout

And so we came to the final exchange in our increasingly acrimonious relationship with the Baird crew: the Stout.

Now a stout typically refers to quite a heavy dark beer or porter, usually among the strongest brews a brewery puts out. But this clocked in at 4.5%, well below the 6.0% of any of their other beers. Befuddled and by this stage somewhat resigned to our fate we poured out.

(sadly no photo for this one, borrowing one from their official website to illustrate the cool artworks better)

This stout has a quite dark coffee coloured head which was pleasing to see. The nose was also far better than the porter, though still put me in mind of homebrew guinness. This brew proved less fizzy than the porter (though still oddly aerated), a relief. And flavour wise it was not too bad either, though a little watery perhaps due to the light alcoholic content. I didn't come across any of the smoky flavour promised on the label, but nevertheless, a fair effort to finish. I'm giving it 4.0, with Nic giving it 5.0 of 10.