A Pastry Stout is an intentionally sweet stout, often made to mimic a specific dessert. Our Pastry Stout has a high ABV combined with a little sweetness. This is very much a dessert stout with a variety of caramel and roasted malts, Mexican vanilla, and cocoa nib - inspired by cookies! Unlike most pastry stouts, this brew does not contain lactose, making it completely vegan and lactose free.

We tried something new with this batch - we used a technique called "reiterated mashing", which involves mashing in with half of the grain, then collecting that wort, and using it to mash in the second half of the grain. The result is highly improved extraction of all the sweet sugars, fermentable or not, from the grain, which is usually quite hard to achieve with such a big beer.