Label: Sasquatch Stout
Type: Stout, you dummy (ala Sanford and Sons)
ABV[%]: 5.0
Packaging: 650 ml bottle
Brewery: Old Yale Brewing Co. Chiliwack BC
Smell: molasses, burnt oates, sweetness
Head: non existent
Color: super dark brown
Carbonation: mild
Kick: above the belt
Rating: 7/10
Notes:
Boys this is one opaque beer. On my first swig, I tasted Smokiness. And it left quite a linger of a burnt flavor on my tongue. The carbonation brings out the sweetness in this beer, even though it isn't very carbonated. It doesn't taste like a heavy stout. But it does linger in your mouth for quite some time. To me, this tastes pretty mild And given how dark the beer looks, I was expecting a little more. Now the label says that this is a full body beer, but I'm not so sure about that. Because there's next to no head nor any lacing on the beer, there aren't very many flavors that come through the nose. There is clearly some chocolate and some coffee in there ... probably a little more coffee than chocolate.
Don't get me wrong, I do like the Stout. But it isn't the "kick you in the pants "kind of stout but I thought it might be, given the mysteriousness of the Sasquatch shadow that is on the label. In fact, it tastes more like the little horse emblem on the label than a Sasquatch. I wouldn't go so far as to call the session beer, but you could put quite a few of these babies down without much trouble.
The city of Chilliwack itself seems like a city that is supposed to be there but not necessarily required, being nestled between farmlands of Abbotsford, and the mountain ranges of Hope BC. Unfortunately, my memories of Chilliwack are not all that great. I remember my mother frequently requesting me to drive her from Abbotsford to Chilliwack so she can go to the apparently only Zellers in the lower mainland. This, coupled with that unfortunate band from the 80s, doesn't leave favorable impressions of Chilliwack. But having this beer might change that.
Rock out wid your sock out.
