The Exorcist Dry Hopped Stout

Review Date 1/14/2022 By John Staradumsky

           

It’s Day Three of the 2021 Clown Shoes 12 Beers of Christmas Advent calendar, and here at Guruofbrew.com we couldn’t be happier! That’s because today offers up a can of Clown Shoes The Exorcist Dry Hopped Stout, a new (to us anyway) beer. Wait a minute, why am I speaking of myself as we and us? It’s just me, your ever-loving Bruguru after all. Maybe I really *do* need an Excorcist!

Well, I’m about to pop one so here goes. There isn’t any listing for this beer on the Clown Shoes website, even though they do have pages dedicated to new and archived brews. It has been for sale before outside the 12-pack, however, since I found a listing for it on Craftshack.com. There, they reference Clown Shoes as follows:

 

As in, nothing. They don’t have a quote on the beer from the brewer as they usually do. What I can tell you, though, is that the beer has an alcohol content of 8% by volume. I paid $24.99 for my 12-pack of 12-ounce cans at Sherlock’s, and my can is stamped Best By 01/31/22. I think iot could go way beyond that date, however.

Clown Shoes The Exorcist Dry Hopped Stout pours to a jet-black color with a thicky cauliflower tan head and a nose of dry roasted barley/malt and citrusy hops. Taking a sip, the beer is medium to full in body, deep roasty with char and intense roasted barely notes, citrusy piney resiny hop notes, and an extreme roasted barley malt finish. Like a parade of dark chocolate bars went through a citrus grove then a pine forest, picked out a Christmas tree, and it all blew up in my mouth.

Resiny and pine just permeate the dark roast here, and I’m just loving that. I would absolutely buy this beer again, and it just jumped to the top of the sampler for me. It will take a lot to dethrone it.

Last Year’s reigning Champion of the 12-pack was Hoppy Feet Black IPA, but to be fair, I didn’t drink the Day Twelve Beer, Galactica Double IPA, until this year. Sometimes, life isn’t fair.

 

The Exorcist Dry Hopped Stout is in a way akin to Hoppy Feet with the roast and resiny pine. The Exorcist, however, has more body.

This year’s ranking so far (based only upon my personal preference):

 

The Exorcist Dry Hopped Stout

Reindeer Games Bavarian Style India Pale Ale.

Space Cupcake India Pale Ale

 

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??

 

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled, Canned

(D)=Draft





 

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