Double deep fried Mars bar stout. ( really )

Went on a Uk holiday last year, 4 weeks in their summer, was supposed to be a sight seeing and family history trip. Turned out being a Beer drinking tour.

I’m not at all disappointed and neither was my drinking partner. I’m a bit of a fanboy for Brewdog tap houses and there are a lot of them in England and Scotland. I think we went to most, including their home factory and tap room at Ellon near Aberdeen in bonny Scotland.

We found the place, it was next to an oil refinery sized factory that I soon realized was their production facility. It is a shock to think how much beer they produce. I just looked it up. 80 Million litres a year.  They have some great beers and different specials in each town but the bar themes are all similar, not steam punk but very industrial and old recycled décor. I love it. In fact they have one in Sydney at Eveleigh, worth a trip.

My favorite beer though was a Stout on their 'Guest" tap from a small craft brewery in Edinburgh.  It was a collaboration between Vault city and Neon Raptor breweries called Double Deep Fried Mars bar stout. At 15.5% I kid you not. I had to try a small one.

It was a cracker of a beer, It wasn’t on nitro but the mouth feel was so thick and smooth, I thought it was, the high alcohol was not noticeable but balanced with the smoothness of the stout Just yum.

 Just as I was going to have another, the barman told me that Scotland has a blood alcohol driving limit of .02 not .05 as we have in Oz.

Lucky for me Scotland don’t seem to have random breath testing, that we saw anyway.

Obviously when I got home, I researched the possibility of making my own DDFMB stout.

I knew it was a bit of a joke as everyone knows you cant deep fry something and put it in beer and expect the oil to not destroy the head retention, but it sounded good on the menu.

My one has got Mars bars in it as well as Coco nibs and Choc grain and Vanilla and Oats and lactose and its been aging in the keg for a while, and it gets better each time I try it but it hasn’t quite measured up at 8% to that monster imperial stout in July.

I’m thinking of throwing in some Oak chips to age on and see what happens.  That's the beauty of this sport of home brewing. You can experiment with just about anything.

Brew Love   Andrew.