Brisbanites are notorious for only drinking dark beer in winter. The rest of the time, they won’t give it the time of day.
Thankfully, like all stereotypes, this isn’t always true. Future Magic made their Meteorite Stout as a one-off for their crowdfund back when they were starting up, but they quickly saw demand for this easygoing American stout, and it joined the year-round line-up.
“We’ve got customers that if we didn’t have the stout on tap, we wouldn’t see those people for months,” owner and head brewer Sean says. “Cold weather, hot, whatever - they’ll have a few pints of stout, and go.”
What is it that helps Meteorite Stout break the trend? The dryness that keeps it drinkable in warm weather? The cola smell, the carbonated-sweet-black-coffee-in-a-can hit, the roasty bitterness keeping it all grounded? The way the bitterness lingers, and even intensifies a little, after each sip? The piece of actual meteorite* that goes into the boil of each brew, infusing Meteorite Stout with the feeling of teeth-chattering isolation that’s usually only experienced when you’re floating through the infinite black void of space?
It’s probably the dryness.
Mick Wüst
*Yes OK, technically it’s a tektite that they put into the boil, which has never been into space; it’s a glassy pebble that forms when a meteorite hits earth and turns some of the earth to molten rock, which then solidifies into a tektite. But "meteorite" sounds better.
