Give It A Shot – Stone Brewing Smoked Porter with Vanilla Bean

How do you take Stone Brewing’s already delicious Smoked Porter and make it better?  We had several ideas kicking around:  Pinto bean, lima bean, baked bean (our personal favorite) and even garbanzo bean.  Apparently these ideas were a little too off the beaten path so they took a suggestion from small batch brewer Laura Ulrich and went with vanilla bean.  The story goes that she had poured some of the regular smoked porter over a couple of scoops of ice cream resulting in a wonderful blend of flavors that were dessert like, but not too sweet.  Maybe someday Stone will listen to our suggestions, but until then we will simply taste what we have.  If you have any ideas for future episodes of “Give It A Shot” or just have a question, you can always send us an email to AboutBeverages@q.com.

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Tasting Notes – Stone Brewing Smoked Porter with Vanilla Bean