Our Brews

Espresso Stout

Posted on October 04, 2007 at 11:51 AM in Our Brews

In the fall of 2003, Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters, a local Whitehorse coffee company that roasts their coffee fresh here in the north, approached us with an idea. Zola Dore (the Yukon Bean Queen) was enjoying a home brewed espresso stout she was producing at a local U-brew. Her idea was that Yukon Brewing Company could produce it commercially. We used this idea to launch a series of beers (if you can call two a series…but who knows what the future will bring) made in partnership with a Yukon company. To say that our brewmaster outdid himself is perhaps not going far enough. By the time he was finished creating, he had a beer with eight different malts (that’s right, Alice, eight malts) not to mention oatmeal and, of course, espresso coffee. The result is a beer that is fine as frog’s hair, full bodied yet smooth, rich with coffee aromas and flavours without ever losing sight of the fact that it’s beer.

Late in 2007, with an eye on seeing this beer find its' way into resturants and bars, we launched this beer in standard 341 ml bottles in a great looking six-pack box. The 1 L bottles, although attractive, just could not be sold in bars and restaurants so the move to the six packs was just a matter of time.