Croatian brewers, The Garden Brewery, believe that less is more. They keep things fresh and natural, opting not to filter or pasteurise their beers, believing it removes flavour and aroma. They use environmentally friendly kegs and fully recyclable cans.
The Garden Brewery only use the very best natural ingredients. Their hops come from around the world and are cold stored and vacuum packed to retain maximum freshness whilst their speciality malts are from the UK and Germany. They use fresh, live yeasts from America. Without the foundation of great ingredients, making their wide range of fantastic beers would be impossible.
The Garden Imperial Hazelnut and Toffee Stout is a rich and intense imperial stout with cocoa nibs and a sticky toffee, nutty sweetness.
Brewed with Magnum and Mount Hood hops and Pale Ale, Aromatic, Munich, Crystal T50, Chocolate, Wheat, Oats and Golden Naked Oat malts.
Mat Wilson –
I am not a lover of incredibly sweet beers that seem to be on the market these days, but although normal sceptical of such a beer as this, I tried it as it was new to me. Well, yes it is sweet, but there is also a kick from the hazelnuts, and a s a toffee fan, I actually quite liked it. Thick dark brown beer, with a chocolate coloured head which lasted and lasted. Quite carbonated. Lots of other flavours in there as well- chocalate, coffee, and something I couldn’t quite pin down, until my wife said – Cookie Dough. Bang on missus.
Kev –
Delicious, smooth and strong. Will definitely reorder.
Jonathan Giles –
Very sweet and strong, I’m back buying this again.
ISC –
Innovative Croatian brewery that produces some excellent stouts and porters this being a particularly good example. Excellent dessert beer, strong and sweet but not oversweet although very pronounced toffee flavour.
David Hanson –
A monster – quite sweet mostly from the toffee flavour but with powerful nut taste and vanilla. Creamy texture with quite a bite lurking which stops it becoming cloying. Very drinkable. Impressive.
Stujago –
This has a delicious milky toffee, chocolate and vanilla flavour to it. the hazlenut is in the background. It is quite strong however due to the ABV and there is some fizz. If the strength and fizz were refined a little it would be an über beer. Lovely creamy texture.
Saul Abbott –
This is one of the most delicious stouts i have ever tasted. It’s unctuous and heavy and doesn’t pull any punches on flavour. You get the flavours advertised on the front of the tin, unlike with some other stouts that advertise the flavour, almost in hope.
The flavours arrive first in the form of the sweet toffee, then the hazelnut, with the hazelnut the lingering flavour. It also has that slightly bitter, almost burnt taste that hazelnuts are known as having. It is quite sweet but the high alcohol content certainly dampens this sweetness down.
The only reason i haven’t given this 5 stars is because i think if the alcohol content was toned down to maybe 7/7.5 it would just lose a little of the syrupy mouth feel that one associates with strong, cheap lager. But don’t let that put you off; this is a rich and heavy, truly exceptional stout.
Peter –
This is a cracking stout its very easy to drink considering its abv, i will be buying again when in stock