If you wish there to be justice in the world, demand that Leinenkugel bring back Big Eddy’s Russian Imperial Stout.
(I usually only write about beers and such that are made in true microbreweries. However, this beer is so good, and so very much deserves it, that I have made an exception to the rule.)
This is a VERY full-bodied stout, rich with chocolate and coffee overtones, thick (though even thicker would be better!), and layered with an exquisitely explosive orchestra of flavors and noses, including caramel, honey, orange, cinnamon, ginger, and other warm spices.
I categorically declare that I have not had a finer stout in my life. You can literally smell it when the glass is set before you. Never before have my taste buds been assaulted so pleasantly.
(The sad news is that the brewery did not realize what they had made. Sources tell me that Leinie was literally dumping kegs of it into the sewers.)
I tried this at The Happy Gnome, one of the finest purveyors of beer in the Twin Cities area. They were lucky enough to know what they had stumbled across, and have it on tap when they can find it.
You should find it if you can, and discover this unacknowledged, brilliant star in the Firmament of Brewing. Let Leinenkugel know (repeatedly) that they need to make it again.
