Way back in time I brewed a stout. The first of some, not of many. It would be nice to own a brewery and, at that time at least, I thought "Mouthful Of Hops Brewery" worked. That was until I realised that brewing at scale is more laborious than I have time for and I've not got the drive to do it frequently enough to be more than okay or to build a company in a very competitive field. The beer was "Fifty Shades Of Stout #1 - Treacle & Chilli". It was yum but imperfect. The "fifty shades" thing is a bit passé now but the idea of it was that there are a lot of flavours that work with stout and why wouldn't the series just work through a bunch based on available ingredients and whimsey? Stout's my favourite beer style anyway. That in turn got me thinking that maybe every flavour of stout has already been created and shouldn't that be documented?... so I made a list of flavours and set off to research them. The initial brainstorm was as follows (and I've got no idea where some of these came from!):

  • 9 Bar

  • Almond

  • Aniseed

  • Apple Mint

  • Apple Pie

  • Bakewell Tart

  • Banana

  • Banana bread

  • Battenburg Cake

  • Black Mint

  • Bramble

  • Brownie

  • Butterbeer

  • Butterscotch

  • Caramelised Macadamia

  • Cardamon

  • Carmel Shortbread

  • Carob

  • Caroway

  • Cheesecake

  • Cherry Coconut Macaroon

  • Chilli

  • Chocolate

  • Chocolate Croissant

  • Chocolate Limes

  • Chocolate Maple Fudge

  • Christmas Cake

  • Churros

  • Cinnamon & Browned Butter

  • Coco Oops

  • Coconut

  • Coconut Ice

  • Coffee

  • Cola

  • Condensed Milk

  • Cookies & Cream

  • Crème Brûlée

  • Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes

  • Custard

  • Date

  • Dirty Pirate - brown sugar, coffee and vanilla essence, mixed with flat Coke, added to vodka and Southern comfort

  • Dr Pepper

  • Ferrero Rocher

  • Fig

  • Frosties

  • Fruit Cake

  • Fruit Loops

  • Fry's Mint

  • Fry's Orange

  • Fry's Original

  • Gingerbread

  • Gingerbread

  • Glace Cherry

  • Golden Grahams

  • Golden Syrup

  • Green Tea

  • Heather

  • Honey

  • Irn Bru

  • Jam

  • Jelly Baby

  • Juniper

  • Lemon Meringue Pie

  • Lime, Coconut, Marshmallow

  • Liquorous All-Sorts

  • Maple Syrup

  • Marmalade

  • Mars Bar

  • Marshmallow

  • Marzipan

  • Milk

  • Milk & Vanilla

  • Neapolitan ice cream

  • Nutella

  • Oreo

  • Pancake

  • Peanut Butter Jelly

  • Pear & Ginger

  • Pecan Pie

  • Poppy (Polish Makowiec Filling)

  • Purple Quality Street

  • Raisin

  • Rhubarb

  • Rice pudding

  • Rose

  • Rum

  • Rum & Raisin

  • Salt Caramel Peanut

  • Scone & Jam

  • Smoked

  • Snickers

  • Soreen

  • Speculaas

  • Sponge Cake

  • Sticky Toffee Pudding

  • Strawberries & Cream

  • Sugar Puffs

  • Tablet

  • Tea

  • Tiramisu

  • Toffee

  • Toffee Popcorn

  • Treacle

  • Treacle Tart

  • Tunnocks Caramel Wafer

  • Tunnocks Teacake

  • Turkish Rose

  • Vanilla

  • Vimto

  • Wham

  • Whisky (by region)

Then of course I was going to research each and make a website that you could find the stout by the "colour" (either of the beer itself or, failing that, a colour from the label). Nice idea but since it's the start of a new year and I'm realistically never going to do this project it's a good time to spring clean so here's the research that I had...

Flavour Image Beer Name Brewery Shade Untappd
Milk and vanilla 10applestout.jpg 10 Apple Stout To Øl, Põhjala #D5F6E3 Untappd
Almond almondpop.jpg Almond Pop Equilibrium Brewery #e8c370 Untappd
Tunnocks teacake biscuittin_chocolatemallowstout.jpg Biscuit Tin: Chocolate Mallow Stout Drygate #482f1e Untappd
Churros doubledeepfriedchurrosimperialstout.jpg Double Deep Fried Churros Imperial Stout Vault City #643a17 Untappd
Speculaas masterpiece2022filledspeculaaspastrystout33cl.png Masterpiece 2022 Filled Speculaas Pastry Stout 33cl Jopen #572a1f Untappd
Whisky panaceawhiskycaskagedstout.png Panacea Whisky Cask Aged Stout Alechemy #494E3F Untappd
Sticky toffee pudding pardusstickytoffeepuddingimperialstout.jpg Pardus Sticky Toffee Pudding, 8% Imperial Stout Thornbridge #d9a85f Untappd
Gingerbread snickersstout.jpg Snickers Stout Blue Canoe Brewery (Pennsylvania) #663300 Untappd
Cardamon sultanscurse.jpg Sultan’s Curse Mikkeller #636a87 Untappd
Tiramisu tiramisu.jpg Tiramisu Yonder #954327 Untappd
Treacle Tart treaclechili.png Treacle & Chili Mouthful Of Hops Brewery #efdccf
Vimto Vimto Stout TicketyBrew #94004a

You get the idea. An interesting thought but not one that needs to be taken any further. It's nice to revisit a project and give it a formal burial! Thank you kind brewers of the world for making so many magnificently flavoured beers.