Expedition Series: Black Tea Stout

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For our entry into the 2021 stout challenge we got very creative...Taking a Korean bubble tea or brown sugar milk tea as our inspiration we created this pastry stout adventure. Sitting on a light sweet malt base, with specially debittered roast malt so as to leave minimal roastiness, is a heavy infusion of Chinese black tea called Pu-erh. Pu-erh is an aged black leaf tea that has a deep rich earthy flavour on steeping. The infusion of this tea into the beer provides the driving flavours of tangy spices and earthy tones and the balance of the tea tannins. Being a pastry stout we have used lactose sugar for that sweet milky creaminess and vanilla to bind the flavours.