welcome friends we are back with big drop room and we're gonna try your dark
noir or stout just out as the rest of the world calls can't call it that
here in Ontario oh nice and dark
beautiful yeah so tell us about it this was the first beer that we produced
this is basically the reason why big drop was created because I am by
preference a stout beer drinker okay and when I had stopped drinking for a few months
a few years ago could not find an alcohol-free stout did and I'm pretty
far in my research yep did not exist and so when well under under traditional
non-alcoholic brewing methods it would be impossible to make this one that you
could almost so took the expertise and skill of Johnny the brewer Johnny
Clayton to bring it to life so you've got wonderful chocolate right up right
on the top your nose yeah chocolate on the top and then quite a bit of coffee
in the in the liquid itself yeah but the chocolate nose carry
through is it there is a great burn maltiness there as well really it's in
there yeah yeah in a nice nice mouthfeel and then yeah the flavours lingering in
my in my mouth it's there it's not disappear
this is a that is a great beer good thank you
this this was the yeah it was the first one that we made and it's it's my first
board holds a special place in my heart and it's won awards it's won awards so
this one a few years ago when we started entering our beers into the competitions
around the world World Beer awards international be a challenge they they
didn't have categories for non-alcoholic beers they don't know what to do with
our beers we would submit them and they so all what is really we've never had an
honor yeah well put it in the specialty category okay and the stout actually
found itself in a specialty category four stouts up against full strength
stouts six seven percent six that we we saw the full range afterwards after the
judging and some of them were going up to double figures you know these guys
were big they may be racing stouts yep and and we won a silver in that in that
category and the some of the feedback from the judges afterwards was I thought
quite interesting that it was because it was well balanced yeah it's a well
balanced bit and yes as you will know as a as a brewer it's very difficult to
keep balance at a high end of the scale yeah very easy to go out of whack with
an eight nine ten percents now yes it's also very difficult at 0.5% and out of
the scale but this beer yeah I think is well balanced it is a well bell again a
light version of the style well and that's it if you put this in front of me
blindfolded I could I could tell you what the style was absolutely you don't
even need to see the liquid yeah you would know you'll get that and go yep
I've got no to the chocolate that is a Stoke and there will be the birds
absolutely but some people do come up to us it's a trade shows or events or
tastings and they run a very enthusiastic because people have
journalists especially very excited about the fact that it's one against
full-strength beers so they shout about it and they talk about which is great
for us people come they go I've heard amazing things about your alcohol-free
stout one against full strength beers didn't know
yes did very proud can I try something yes of course drink it that's oh no I
don't like that at all that's just no that's horrible and then I say okay do
you like stout oh yeah right okay well you're not gonna like that then because
that's a stout do you drink pile up oh I love paella
try that oh that's delicious and again right there we go something for everyone
well in and and that's that's the thing a stout is a very particular palette
that likes stout Julie loves stout right so my wife Julie they all
know Julie hi Julie so where is this available thing so this
is our second biggest seller so okay we get a lot of listings for this because I
think there might be one or two other non-alcoholic stouts out there now but
and I would say this but having tried them might I still may say oh this is
the best so this is a popular addition to craft their stores okay two big
supermarkets to fit into their lono range so you can buy it in the LCBO now
that's happily got our listing in the LCBO been in the UK and the Netherlands
and the Nordics is reasonably well available yeah this is a good beer .
that's there's no - no caveats - the starting boy thank you very much look
thanks for stopping by Cheers see you guys soon Cheers
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