Mud Dauber

This beer shares a lot of similarities with dry Irish stouts in that it has a thick creamy body from flaked barley and the unique depth of roasted barley, but maybe isn't quite dark enough to fit in.  It has a lot in common with brown ale in that has a brown color and roasted character of brown malt, but maybe lacks the toffee sweetness common in English brown ales.  You can think of it like a London porter, dark and balanced, although it has a much fuller body.

Like many of our beers, it sits just outside our neatly named boxes of what beer should be.  You can call it what you want.  We call it the Mud Dauber.

We built the Mud Dauber to be a full bodied, creamy stout, but lighter on the roast.  We started with a blank slate of pale malt and feathered in two kinds of brown malt with a dash of roasted barley for layers of walnut, cocoa, and even a delicate whisper of coffee.  We then piled in heaps of flaked barley which give this beer it's full, pillowy mouthfeel.

The beer bears the name of the mud dauber wasps, two families of solitary wasps (Sphecidae and Crabronidae) that build mound- or organ pipe-shaped nests out of mud.  Because they live on their own, mud daubers don't have to sting to protect the hive, instead using their stingers to hunt spiders.

Suggested pairings: Chili, any and all red meat, campfires, Seahawks football