I’m not really a big beer drinker but when I am in the mood for a beer, I always choose a stout. I love stouts because of their rich bold flavor notes of coffee and chocolate. The only Guinness brewery in the United States happens to be just outside of Baltimore and it’s been open for about a year now. As much as I love stouts, I only recently visited the new Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Halethrope, MD to try their new beer launch ‘Over The Moon Milk Stout’.
The stout has a 5.30% ABV with flavor notes of cocoa, coffee and chocolate. It has the big, bold flavors that I love in stouts and I was honestly happy to sip a stout during the summer because most bars don’t serve them during the warm months. Guinness invited one of their top beer ambassadors from New York to come down to Baltimore and educate our group on a little history of the brewery and give us a detailed profile of the new stout.
The brewery’s on-site restaurant prepared a delicious 24-hour Smoked Short Rib Pasta to accompany the stout tasting. They also prepared desserts such as their Flourless Chocolate Cake, Cupcakes, Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse and Macaroons.
We also tried the Imperial Golden Pineapple beer which is made with Pineapple Puree and I really liked it. It was a bit sweet but not too sweet and still had the taste of beer.
After we were done with the beer tasting, we went out onto the brewery lawn to have a Paint and Sip session with Pinot’s Palette. This was my third sip and paint event and I happen to think I’m good at it (toots horn). Check out the results below…
What do you think? How’d did i do?
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