CHRIS DROSNER
For the State Journal
For good reason, the bourbon barrel stout is the apex predator of the craft beer world. Itâs rich and bold, at once complex and utterly unsubtle.
Every brewery knows the cachet these dark dandies have with beer geeks, and many breweries make them. Nearly all are pretty good â the combination of stoutâs chocolate-coffee-dark-fruit and bourbonâs oaky vanilla just works â but remarkably few are great.
A new barrel-aged stout from Oâso Brewing of Plover just joined that latter group.
This should-be hit, called Narcissist, comes just ahead of a major turning point for Oâso. Owners Marc and Katina Buttera have been working to open a new brewery for years, with one setback after another delaying or scuttling plans. Marc Buttera once told me hoped to break ground in 2016 on a new brewery and taproom. That was in 2014.
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This was not the best new beer Madisonâs Ale Asylum released this year, but it was unquestionably the most successful, and itâs obvious why without even cracking open the can. This beerâs label perfectly captured the zeitgeist at the time of its release in early April, and it never really stopped resonating. The pilsner was followed by a hazy pale ale version, and both were taken national by the new Wisconsin-based distributor Brew Pipeline. Locally, the brewery has offered the FVCK COVID duo and many of its other beers for $6 a six-pack for most of the year. By the way, my favorite new Ale Asylum beer also had a âugh, 2020â theme: MRDR HRNT, the first in a new âApocalypse Bingoâ series. Itâs a pale ale heavily dosed with Mosaic,
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