

Dry Stout Beer Reviews
Smooth and chalky with coffee notes. A step up from a Porter. How does it finish? The name says it all.


Lakefront Snake Chaser Irish Style Stout
Lakefront Brewery’s Snake Chaser is an Irish Dry Stout that does a pretty good job aligning itself with the style. It’s brewed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin … less than two hours away from us here in Chicago. I’d say up to this point in my craft beer...
Deschutes Obsidian Stout
John: The thing I hate about this beer is that it’s hard to drink it — without chocolate! That’s the only thing I don’t like about this wonderful, genuine stout from the Northwest. I am a bit of stout snob (or at least I think I am). So much so...
Dogfish Head Chicory Stout
Taylor: Chicory Stout is one of Dogfish Head’s earliest recipes, first brewed by Sam Calagione in 1995 when the operation was a simple 10-gallon system. It’s one of the first of Dogfish Head’s ventures into the realm of eccentric recipes, a theme...
Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout
Michael: Life has a way of surprising you. So does beer. This was a gift and so for some reason the price tag of ‘free’ had prejudice me against this brew. The label was average, nothing exciting and I had never bumped into Old Dominion before. So, thinking I was in...