Brodies - Big Mofo Stout

Wow! They really weren't blowing smoke when they named this what they did. It's an impressive beer in taste, texture, character, complexity and it just has a bit of that "WOW" factor to it. The best way to describe it would be to imagine drinking a cold glass of bitter sweet cake which pours like melted obsidian and goes down like molasses. It's a beer that retains head like a tantric hooker and punishes you like a dominatrix because at 10.5% it is not a beer to be toyed with but, like all the best ones around, the taste of alcohol is disguised with misdirection and sleight of hand. Some people will say it's more sweet than bitter, others will say it is more bitter than sweet, but what everyone will agree on when they drink this is that the first gulp feels like there's too much of everything and it just startles you. Once you become accustomed to it you can feel it calming down like a tamed wolf, but even if you have tamed it, it will always be a wild animal.

Some stouts can be too sweet, some not sweet enough, this one hits the nail on the head and then bombards you with MORE NAILS! It's rich, syrupy, burnt caramel aroma is enough to intoxicate most people but the problem comes when you actually start drinking because, even though it is very thick, it is as easy to drink as filtered water and as tasty as licking nutella off the *desired body part* of *insert wet dream here.*

This absolute stunner of a stout is available at The Bottle Shop in Canterbury, but if you're one of those people who doesn't live EXACTLY where I live and would, therefore, find it difficult to get there then you should ask your local speciality beer shop to order this in for you if they don't have it already.

Food Suggestion: Big, fresh, fistfuls of multi seeded brown bread and a soup that you could easily mould into a wet sandcastle if you wanted. I reckon pumpkin for the sweetness and chilli for some bite... Yep, pumpkin and chilli soup, big handfuls of brown bread and Big Mofo Stout like a f***ing BOSS!

Drink this if you like: Any stout that you can buy in a bottle that isn't Guinness. There's a pint you can only get around my area that, I believe, is made by Goachers of Maidstone called "Brabourne Stout," this is a slightly more powerful version of that. Drink this if you want to feel like an Irish Conan... The Barbarian, not O'Brien, who actually is Irish... And not quite as badass as the Barbarian, but he is much more alive and real... DRINK THIS BEER!