The Welder's Dog Extra Stout

While some breweries seem happy to offer little but a range of hop forward pale beers these days, presumably with the thinking that this is what the public wants, The Welder's Dog prefer to go for something rather more colourful, with this Extra Stout offering a slab of dense black at the end of their rainbow.

That dense liquid comes topped with a brown head – an indicator of the roasted grains within – and delivers lots of rich, dark chocolate in tandem with those heavily roasted cereal characters. There's something earthy and even leathery in there too, with bitterness kept on the low side.