Swirled Raspberry Stout Brownies

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Take your dessert game to the next level with our Swirled Raspberry Stout Brownies. The perfect combination of rich chocolate, tart raspberries, and a hint of stout.

 

Okay. I’m going to blow your mind in saying this but here goes.

Ditch the wine this Valentine’s Day.

 

 

Seriously. Don’t buy one single bottle this Valentine’s Day. So, what do you drink? You drink some delicious, DELICIOUS, DuClaw Brewing Company’s seasonal Chocolate Raspberry Stout, Naked Fish.

 

Yup. That’s right. I said it. Drink beer. While this beer has the appearance of a regular stout beer, this is not just ANY stout beer. This is Chocolate Raspberry Stout beer. This is beer that’s brewed with Goldings hops, Caramunich and chocolate malts, plus deliciously roasted barley. Oh yeah, and there’s chocolate raspberry coffee. All of these ingredients combine to make the most amazing roasted malt, chocolate, and raspberry flavor party in your mouth.

 

 

Why and how did this heavenly goodness get created, you ask? Well, brewmaster Jim Wagner; he was angling one morning at his fave fishing hole drinking raspberry coffee and it hit him; like a V8! He immediately went home to brew some up using the exact same coffee he was drinking that morning! And thus, in 2002, this amazing beer was born.

 

 

I know. It’s been out for 13 years. I KNOW! I didn’t know about it either!! But, I do now. I will definitely be purchasing many bottles in both the 12 and 22 oz variety available in stores in Maryland, DC, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina to make up for lost time. And not only am I going to drink this luscious libation, I’m going to be incorporating it into some delicious recipes; like this one!

 

 

When I received my generous package of this delicious beer, I didn’t taste it right away. I thought about what this beer would enhance, how I could make it shine, and what I would want to taste with this beer. Yup. I did some research. Who wouldn’t?

 

THEN I opened a bottle and let it sit a minute on the counter. It breathed. Then I breathed in the scintillating aroma of the chocolaty hops, the hint of raspberry and the floral notes from the malts. Yeah, I sound like a beer snob, but I’m really not. AND I could totally be wrong about all of this.

 

 

Then I sipped; like I’m tasting wine. I allowed the beer to swirl the outside of my mouth then hit my tongue. And it spoke to me. It had this floral note that was the intro. Then I could taste the chocolate which flowed into the hint of raspberry that tied it all together. Finally, the chocolate malts hit and you get that stout after burn. No, it’s not a burn. It’s an…an…just a stout flavor that, for me, ends all stout beers I drink. But, this beer is BY FAR like any stout I’ve tried. 

 

And then it screamed MAKE BROWNIES. MAKE BROWNIES WITH A RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE SWIRLED TOPPING! So, I did. And they were DELICIOUS! They’re fudgy to bring out the chocolate and the stout. Then there’s the raspberry topping to tie in to those flavors of the beer. They’re delicious!! I almost ate the whole pan delicious. 

 

 

So, like I said. Ditch the wine and drink beer this Valentine’s Day. Drink DuClaw Brewing Company’s Naked Fish Chocolate Raspberry Stout beer. You can thank me later.