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Wildwood Black Forest Stout

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A Sweet Stout brewed by
Wildwood Restaurant & Brew Pub
Calgary, Canada

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3 3.2/5.0 3.04/5.0 Special 5% 0 English pint P Stats

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The underpinning of the beer is Wildwood's stout, which was retired when Wildwood's former brewer, Jim Anderson, did likewise. For our purposes, the beer was brewed with eight different grains and two types of hops. This makes it a stout of exceptional complexity, featuring a gentle sweetness balanced against a subtle, smoky bitterness. The firm malt underlay of the beer and the subtle bitterness are necessary to form a solid foundation of flavour similar to that of chocolate cake. This stout is an English-style oatmeal stout, rather than the Irish-style stout with which most beer lovers are familiar. Guinness, an Irish-style stout, is dry, with a light acidity and a relatively thin presence in the mouth. English-style oatmeal stout, on the other hand, has a gentle sweetness and a light viscosity. This gives the beer presence in the mouth and, again, better imitates actual cake. To this recipe was added chocolate, in two additions during the brewing process, and two different varieties of cherries, both added during fermentation. In keeping with Wildwood's philosophy of brewing with only the best ingredients, real cocoa and actual cherries were used in the all-grain beer. No extracts or syrups ever see Wildwood's brewery. Because Wildwood's stout was itself perfectly balanced, it was important that the new ingredients not skew the balance. For this reason, a more bitter style of chocolate was selected, which balances its own sweetness, and both sweet and sour cherries were used, in equal quantities. While both the chocolate and cherry aromas and flavours should be easily detectable, they play only supporting roles, allowing Wildwood's stout star billing.

TimE (1037), Tokyo, Japan

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	7/10	4/5	7/10	2/5	13/20

Dec 17, 2006

Slightly sour, chocolate cherry cake nose. Mouth reminds me of a baked cake, but the chocolate flavors don’t mold well with the cake for some reason. Vanilla and caramel also creep in there, but the mouth is not balanced overall. Vanilla chocolatey finish. OK.

Tipsy_McStager (823), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

3.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.2	6/10	5/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Nov 17, 2006

looks great in the glass. Opaque ruby/brown with large tannish head. Too me more of a dry than a sweet stout. Cherry and chocolate are understated. I would have liked to have seen a more imperial slant on this beer, really pushing the chocolate and cherry theme to the max.

presario (2441), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

3.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.1	6/10	4/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Nov 17, 2006

Very big foamy chocolate head. Black beer is very inviting. Soft chocolate and cherry aroma with aluminum notes. Flavour is dusty cocoa with a subtle but long cherry finish. It is a nice stout but in my opinion would be better without the cherries. For me it misses the mark of emulating Black Forest Cake.

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