Harbour Lager
Lager · 4.0% · IBU 18 — go pale next, reset the palate.
Pouring now House beer
Black Buoy Stout
Roasty coffee and cocoa, light enough for a second pint. Dark in the glass, light on its feet — the winter beer that refused to leave in spring.
The numbers
StyleStout
ABV4.4%
IBU38
MaltMaris Otter, roast, oats
HopsChallenger, Fuggles
ServePint, 11°C
Why it tastes like that
Roast without the weight
Black Buoy started as a one-off for a stormy February weekend and outsold everything else on the bar three to one. Ruth put it on permanently the following Monday and has never heard the end of it, in a good way.
Flaked oats give it a soft, full body while the roast stays firmly in espresso-and-dark-chocolate territory. At 4.4% it is built for a second pint, not a lie-down.
At the table
Order it with
Chocolate pudding if the truck has it, a cheese toastie if it doesn't. Purists drink it on its own after dinner, which in the taproom counts as dinner anyway.
Winter ritual: every November we brew a 7% imperial version for one weekend only. The mailing list hears first — that is the whole point of the mailing list.
Keep tasting
Next to it on the bar
Mashtide Pale
Pale Ale · 4.8% · IBU 35 — bright after dark.
Seafret IPA
IPA · 6.2% · IBU 55 — for when one stout wasn't enough.