Creme Brulee Beer

Jeez you miss a week or two and every one is a critic. Alright so I may have been a might stagnant in my authorings, but I have some interesting beers to go over, and actually many blogs worth of material from them. I have a newcomer this time to the repatoire, an offering from the Southern Tier Brewing Company of Lakwood....Gasp New York. Yup that's right a beer sent to us from the empire state, not to be mistaken with the crime infested hood that lurks beneath Tacoma. The full title of said brew is Imperial Creme Brulee Stout, and as they say in the text world OMG! This thing is both unique and worderful, and left me, well flabergasted at how to describe this entity upon my first sip. Now I've had some wonderful vanilla porters before from breweries such as the Harmon and a couple others, but none that did it in the guise of an Imperial Stout, and definitely none like Souther Tier did it. Texture wise this brew had the feel of a straight up cream stout. Now normally stouts tend to have a very smooth, wet, feel to them, but cream stouts feel like a soft pillow wrapped in snuggle fabric softener. They are the epitomy of smooth as far as any beer I've had, and this Imperial stout has that feel to it. Now on to the main event, the flavor is a tidal wave of vanilla, and it weaves itself immaculately within the concept of this particular imperial stout. I drank this from a snifter, and it smells like almost pure vanilla extract. Don't get me wrong the same robust taste of a normal imperial stout is there, but tempered with an equal vanilla taste this beer is almost a dessert! If ever there was a chance of truly making creme brulee into a beer, then this is it. The creators of this beer obviously had a taste target in mark, and they hit the bullseye so well they make robin hood look like a hack. Now as per usual with sweet brews this one tips in at a hefty 10%, so it's not exactly the beer of lightweights. It's pretty identifiable as the label is ladened with Earth's super beast the cow. I purchased this one at 99 bottles in Federal Way, but I've seen it at QFC, Top Foods, and a new beer store that is in West Seattle that's pretty good called The Beer Junction right by the QFC off of California. Anyone that is a fan of stouts, and looking for something that is definitely something different then this is your beer.