It’s been a while since I’ve had the luxury of indulging in a #beersaturday recently, but with a long weekend upon us it was only fitting I made a trip down to the bottle shop and stocked up on a little Easter cheer.
I’ve been loving my IPA’s lately, and was adamant on grabbing another pack to satisfy my cravings.. until out of nowhere this little beauty caught my eye.
Timothy Tamothy Slamothy, a caramel chocolate biscuit milk stout.. What on earth do we have here? Stout has never been an attractive beer to me, but with Easter upon us the enticing promise of a Chocolate, Caramel and Milky beer was too strong to resist. I was sold. I tucked a pack under my wing, and ventured for home to unravel the mysteriousness of my type of Easter egg.
Brewed by Moon Dog Craft Breweries here in Australia, the first thing that caught my attention was the beers name ‘Timothy Tamothy Slamothy’. For those of you who live in Australia and New Zealand, you will know resistance is futile. Tim tams are a famous chocolate biscuit that are iconic to our countries, and a delicious staple snack on all supermarket shelves. They are the epitome of chocolate biscuits, the holy grail. To mix their flavour with a stout beer had the potential to be ingenious, or catastrophic!! One way or another, there was no way I wasn’t going to find out.
“This milk stout has everything you love about the best choccy bickie going around, but with a stouty caramely twist”
A ballsy move on Moon Dogs behalf If you ask me. Embedding the reputation of the nation’s favourite chocolate biscuit, creating an expectation of flavour and taste that may be impossible to transit to a stout beer, that in my opinion is usually far from delicious.
Standing at 330ml tall, he’s standard in stature however possesses an ABV of 6.5%. It promises to be big on flavour, packs a solid punch, and possesses an air of mysteriousness about. I’m genuinely curious about this one, so without further beating around the proverbial bush let’s get down to #beersaturday business.. That’s what we are here for after all
Alright I’m not going to lie, when I poured this the dark black colour was bit of a turn-off compared to the hazy golden IPAs that I’ve become accustomed to drinking.
This dark colour is characteristic of stout beer, so in terms of appearance it was exactly as expected. Stouts are really filling beers, with people often joking that they are a meal in itself.
Upon the first sip instantly a rich caramel biscuit flavour was definitely present, as well as a subtle refreshing milky taste. The flavouring was actually delicious, and to my surprise it actually resembled the taste of the promised Tim Tam biscuit.
With each sip this milky biscuit flavour was present, and was a complete contrast to the bitterness of the stout beer that was also part of the taste. An ingenious combination where the two flavours completely contrasted one another, a real case of opposites attract in this context.
For a dark stout beer, man were these easy to drink. The first one went down an absolute treat, and the second one just as quickly. Each sip had my tastebuds cartwheeling, with an array of different flavours that were the perfect combination.
I had my doubts in regards to the taste of this beer initially, but as I continued to indulge I couldn’t flaw its taste. Rather than the catastrophe that I saw before me, we had struck gold with a unique and truly genius assortment of flavour. Hats of to Moon Dog, you’ve pulled a rabbit out of the hat with this one
10/10 guys
Hope everyone is having an awesome #beersaturday wherever we are.
If you ever see these anywhere, give them a nudge you won’t be disappointed.
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