A good night for a stout

I was surfing for interesting things to report on while trying to decide on a beer to drink when I stumbled across this article about stout from the lesser of my two hometown papers. Fortunately for me, I have both Beamish and Murphy’s stout in the pub draft version in my basement right now, so as I write this I’m enjoying the former while looking forward to the latter.

The Beamish is a nice smooth drink, an Irish stout from Cork similar to those listed in the article. As with many well-known brands, the brewing company, Beamish and Crawford plc, has made its way through a number of different, ever-larger owners, the most recent of which is Scottish and Newcastle. The Beamish doesn’t have the character of some other stouts, like the Left Hand Milk Stouts I’ve written about before, but it’s just what I was looking for this evening.

image from Wikipedia