Super Bock Stout

A while ago, (ok a long whole ago) I found some Super Bock, a high gravity corn laden lager which is one step below tramp juice. Low and behold the stuff is rampant throughout the Algarve and my mission was to avoid it at all costs! (something which I failed to do...). Rather than bore you with tales about a beer which makes Carling seem like a complex and interesting beer, I am going to talk about Super Bock Stout (4.8% abv), the 'dark side' . Contrary to the regular Super Bock, the stout version is actually half decent. The beer is chocolate roasty and robust, but has a little residual caramel sweetness which works rather well. As far as stouts go, it's more interesting than any of the usual Irish mega-swills as it has a dominant chocolate flavour whilst still being stout. Ok, not strictly to style but still a very nice beer. I suspect that the beer is actually brewed with a lager yeast - so its like a roasty Schwartzbier if you get my drift.

Overall an interesting beer: Website