Garage Project’s application of nitro tech could lead to very exciting things for dry stouts like this, as well as malt driven beers generally. Snug is deeply roasty on the nose with burned malt, toasted coconut and mocha. The palate has the full spectrum of malt flavour on blast, starting with sweet toffee and finishing all the way over in the bitterest black, which gradually burns off over the long finish. Despite the intensity of flavour and ferocity of the bitterness, the body stays light and crisp. Not just another Guinness-a-like, this handily beats the old Irish favorite in my opinion, having vastly more flavour with only a 0.8% hike in ABV compared with the Irish benchmark.
