This is another interesting and clever creation from Kees. He calls it his chocolate strawberry milk stout.
The beer is an oatmeal chocolate stout at its base, but with kilos upon kilos of fresh whole strawberries added.
In the aroma, the strawberries are very strong at first though they seem to subside as the beer warms and the stout characters take over.
A rich sweet chocolate flavour greets the tongue, with the developing roasted malt bitterness building toward the back palate. The strawberry is more subdued in the flavour, though certainly present in the background.
There is heaps of flavour packed into the 6% body, and the flavours seem to compliment each other rather than being disjointed or artificial. Kind of like the early evening build-up to tackling Kees’ Caramel Fudge Stout!
A Belgian Export Porter from a brewery more known for their Flemish sour ales
Barossa's GABS entry for 2019 was the Peanut Butter Chocolate Milkshake stout. The name says it all!
A combination of English and German smoked malts combine in this rich, tasty dark treat
A tasty sweet milk stout with the addition of smoked wheat malt and whole vanilla beans
by Brouwerij Emelisse/Slot-Oostende
A 5.5% sweet stout presenting loads of sweet chocolate and toasty malts, hints of coffee and an undercurrent of vanilla
A chocolate orange stout in collaboration with De Dochter Van De Korenaar
by L'Arogante (De ProefBrouwerij)
A Belgian Stout with loads of roasted malt, chocolate and coffee with a solid hop bitterness
An easy drinking Belgian stout that is a little sweet at first, with a dry and bitter finish
A Russian Imperial Stout brewed to an original English recipe from 1750
A slightly happier version of a classic barley wine, using Cascade and Citra hops
A rich caramel malt body with a good dose of hop bitterness and a dry finish
An Imperial Saison aged 6 months in Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels
A delicious dessert beer, this is like caramel fudge in a glass
This beer replaces the Double Rye IPA, loaded with Mosaic, Simcoe and Loral hops with a crisp malt body
The second variant of Kees' Double IPA, double dry hopped with Simcoe & Amarillo
A spicy Rye Imperial IPA, with generous additions of Citra, Simcoe and Cascade
An old 19th Century beer style, dragged into the current craft beer world by a creative and talented brewer
A triple dry-hopped Imperial IPA, the 2020 single hop edition features Chinook hops
An IPA from Kees, finished with a French saison yeast for an interesting mix of beer styles
Kees' version of a NEIPA - or at least a hazy IPA - full of Citra, Mosaic and Loral hops
A new version of Kees' hazy IPA featuring Citra, Mosaic and Loral hops for a soft, juicy IPA
A lightly smoked summer dopplebock - apparently it's how the 'Indian's celebrated the autumn!'
Pils and Munchener malts, Amarillo hops, coriander and mango are all fermented with yeast from Westmalle
A milkshake IPA, made using lactose and with the addition of fresh mango and vanilla
A chocolate orange stout in collaboration with De Dochter Van De Korenaar
A hop-driven pale ale dry-hopped with loads of beautiful Citra hops
Pineapple, coriander and szechuan peppers plus a little lactose make for an intriguing milkshake IPA
A really juicy, and very intriguing, single hop IPA using experimental hop HBC472
A rich Russian Imperial Stout with cinnamon and brown sugar, based on the traditional Dutch pastry dessert
This Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout is a three-way collaboration with Alvinne (BEL) and Velka Morava (RUS) brewed at Brouwerij Kees
