Belgian beers usually have hints of banana, porters can be reminiscent of chocolate, and Pilsners can have a bready quality. Stouts, meanwhile, are akin to coffee with their dark and roasty flavors, so it makes sense that a coffee roaster that happens to also brew beer would have a passion for the style. Steep Brewing & Coffee Co. has four stouts on tap the perfect amount for a nice flight.
Aside from a to-go coffee, I properly visited the brewery for the first time recently to celebrate February’s Stout Month. Dedicating a whole wintry month to the warming beer started in 1993 with Boulder’s Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and has since grown to breweries all over honoring the period with a stout.