Mariner Brewing – Night Sky Salted Caramel Stout

Mariner Brewing – Night Sky Salted Caramel Stout Review

On a recent visit to Surrey’s excellent Clover Crossing Liquor Store, the BeerSeekers picked up a pack of Night Sky stout from Coquitlam’s Mariner Brewing. After two sips, we knew we had to review this one!

This stout pours with a chunky light brown head, leaving a noteworthy lace in your glass. As you’d expect, the colour is near black; almost too dark to discern its clarity, although, with a light to it, the liquid seems fully filtered. On the nose, there are notes of chocolate, fudge, and sweet, milky mocha.

Our pack of Night Sky

As is de rigueur with the contemporary salted caramel style, the can lists Pink Himalayan salt. But there’s a surprise bonus: added coffee from local cafe C-Market.

Also, the packaging notes mention the use of lactose. So one supposes that this technically could have been labelled a Milk Stout…but despite invoking the adjective ‘milky’, we hasten to note that this was a minor aspect we barely picked up on (we generally don’t read the can for ingredients until after making our tasting notes).

Night Sky was rich and sweet on the palate, as you’d expect from a caramel stout. One of the BeerSeekers experienced a distinct three-stage flavour sequence involving coffee, followed by chocolate, then finally caramel, which lingered until the next sip. In addition to milk stout, ‘Sweet Stout’ would be an appropriate categorization.

Having said that: on the palate, there is a slightly oily, resiny smack from the coffee (or the hops, or both) which balances the big sweetness a bit.

Chocolately stout lovers take note! We rated this beer as “I am leaving right now to get more”, and you probably will too.

LINKS

• Untappd Reviews
• Clover Crossing Liquor Store