Lazy Magnolia Sweet Potato Stout
Sweet Potato Stout, our original Sweet Potato Cream Stout, is the ideal Southern-style Stout. Brewed with roasted Southern-grown sweet potatoes, the background has an impressive taste with added notes of roasted chocolate, coffee, and caramel flavors with sweetening enhanced with lactose (milk sugar).
3.3
324 reviews
Kiln, United States
Community reviews
On tap at the Ole Saint in NOLA. Dark brown with copper highlights and a low tan head. Nice and roasty, some coffee and chocolate with a balanced dry finish. Nothing flashy, but a solid tasty stout.
This beer pours up pitch black, with a thin tan head. Aromas is pretty mild. Just some smoke and sweetness. Taste is some coffee, mild chocolate, roasty and smoky with a milky finish. The lactose is very pronounced. I don’t detect much as far as sweet potatoes are concerned. OK, non offensive and drinkable, nothing great.
Bottle version. An interesting blend of deep roast and lactose tartness. Pours pitch black with a one finger light brown head. Nice long roast finish with some sweet potato sweetness. Mild chocolate and lots of vanilla throughout. Some molasses and a hint of anise. Full mouthfeel, but drinks relatively light. A flavorful everyday kinda Stout.
*Bottle in Hamburg. Extremely deep and rich for the 4.5%. Sweetish chocolate, nuts, roast. Probably the sweet potatoes are there as well, lactose soft, smooth mild, sweetish espresso / milk chocolate. Nice and round.
Bottle from Liquor Barn. Aroma of chocolate, sweet potato, and caramel. Taste is sweet.
Bottle. Milk chocolate, light smoke and copper aroma. Darkest brown, creamy Brown head. Medium light. Creamy. Light on the palate, but very creamy. earthy, milk chocolate, light herb and choc finish.
Bottle. Black color with tan head. Aroma is chocolate, lacto, and really some sweet potato. Taste is sweet potato, lacto, chocolate. A bit mineralic finish. Medium carbonation. Interesting!
Bottle. Roasted malt aroma with notes of caramel, coffee, milk sugar, chocolate and some sweet potato. Pours dark brown with a large caramel head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with roasted malt flavors with notes of chocolate, caramel and coffee. Finishes extremely smooth with milk sugar sweetness and some sweet potato flavor that ends very clean on the palate. Pretty nice stout.
Bottle (Jan 2017 bottling, as "Jeff Stout", aka "Big Beef Stout").
Head is initially average sized, frothy, brown, mostly lasting.
Body is black (non-opaque, flashlight tested).
Aroma is moderately malty (roasted grain, coffee), with a note of minerals.
Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter.
Light to medium body, watery texture, lively/soft carbonation.
This is much more of a dry stout than anything, really. It’s not even remotely a sweet stout IMHO, and I’m more sensitive to overly sweet beers than most folks. Roasty-minerally nose certainly makes me think of an Irish stout, and the 4.5% and light body suggest the same. It’s more sour than bitter, but plenty of UK examples are pretty tart too. I don’t get any of the sweet potato or lactose (thankfully on both). Hi, Jeff! *<8^)
Bottle. Pours a dark brown to black with a medium sized tan head. Roast and sweet paper on the nose. Medium bodied, sweet, roast, cocoa, chocolate. Gentle today bitterness into the finish.
Decent sweet stout. Aroma of roasted malt and sweet. Flavor was sweet vegetable and chocolate. Dark and creamy.
On tap Ole Saint. A touch thinner than I like and with a slight acrid finish on the roasted flavours.
355ml bottle. Almost black colour with dark ruby glimmer and aväerage, thick, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty aroma, sweet-ish hints of burnt caramel, hints of molasses, a nuttily touch. Taste is bitter, roasty dark malty, minimally papery, mineral and ashy, residual sweetness, a touch of burnt coffee.
From a 12 oz bottle/ Pours near black with a big tan head that dissipated quickly and left no lacing. Nose of chocolate malts. Medium body and a lactose mouth feel. Flavor is mostly roast chocolate malts. Finishes sweet. Pretty good.
Poured from the bottle. Color is dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is sweet, with notes of chocolate, roasted malt, earth, and sweetness. Taste is sweet and roasty. Its hard to pick up a whole lot of the sweet potato, but still very enjoyable.
Might be a Winter seasonal, but it held up, in my opinion, besides I’m too excited to get my 49th state of the USA in for a beer, no way, am I about to let this beer review slip away.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a thin white to off white foamy cap of a head. No lacing.
The aroma starts off with some roasty coffee bean, marshmallow, then toffee, creamy espresso sweetness comes in nicely to round out. Light cocoa bean plays in the background.
The flavor returns the roasty coffee bean to blend nicely into the sweet marshmallow and toffee. Dry sweet aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice semi-sessionable feel to it. Dry roastiness seems to hit decently.
Overall, good milk/sweet stout I could have again. Just glad to knock off a Mississippi beer finally. Only one more state to have a beer from all 50.
12fl.oz. bottle. Pours almost black with a huge most good lasting tan head. Aroma of sweet chocolate malt, vanilla and earth. Taste of sweet roasted malt, chocolate, lactose and vanilla, quite nice!
Brownish beer. Coffee, caramel, tart and sweet potatoes come back in taste and aroma. Funny.
Sampled from bottle at the 2016 Tanglefoot Fest. It poured a very dark brown colour with beige foam, lasting with lace. With sweet potato and lactose, so a lot going on, aroma definitely better than flavour. Seemed very boozy and bourbon-like, despite only 4.7% abv. The best toasty/roasty aspects of a stout were kinda overpowered. Medium body and carbonation, mushy and sticky sweet aftertaste. Not great.
Klares dunkelbraun mit durchschnittlicher Schaumkrone. Röstmalzig, süßlich, dunkle Schokolade, etwas Kaffee, würzig, die Süßlartoffel mit Fantasie, interessant.
Dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, very fast-dying tan head. Aroma of lactose, cream, alcohol, roasted malt and a bit of coffee - decent, but not too strong. Light-bodied; Strong roasty flavours with a nice sweet potato and lactose flavour showing the sugary side, but the earthy, ashy flavours are also noticeable without much malt support. Aftertaste shows some smokey notes with a bit of peat and grain with a touch of sugars, some mild alcohol notes and a hint of bitterness from the coffee. Overall, not such a great beer, but worth trying if you like the style. I sapled this twelve ounce bottle purchased by a teammate and sampled after a hockey game on 23-March-2014 in Ballston (Arlington), Virginia.
Deep chocolate brown beer with a medium foamy tan head. Nose of condensed milk, semi-sweet chocolate, and almonds. Flavor is similar with a sweet chocolate core overlaid with light coffee and brown sugar. I don’t really taste sweet potatoes and find that to be a good thing. Somewhat light textured for a stout, this is decent, but nothing unusual or special.
Pours dark brown almost motor oil with a thick creamy viscous head. Aromas medium smoke, aged wood, earth, cocoa and slight olive. Flavors medium olive, aged wood, medium smoke. There really is no per say "potato taste". I guess it comes out through the noted complexities. Its lightly sweet and almost goes into a sour note (olive). The smoke aftertaste lingers but lightly. If this was sweeter it would be more likable. Interesting ingredient.
12 oz pour from bottle into tulip. Pours dark, opposite, decent brown head. Nose is sweet, malty, a little spice, notable sweet potato here. Body is suprisingly light, almost thin for a stout. Taste boarders on dry with a little sweet potato on the finish. Moderate maltiness throughout. Mild as stouts go, though.
Poured from a bottle. Dark brown color, small off white head. Cream and malt aroma. Medium body with a metallic malt flavor and a lingering metallic finish.
Nice looking stout, bubbly beige head. Aroma of roasted nuts, tobacco, caramel and toffee. Pretty light and thin for a stout. Tastes like a not very sweet Mr. Goodbar...some earthiness too. Not bad, very drinkable.
12 oz bottle poured. Bottled on 1/21/16. Picked up in St. Pete. Mississippi beer! Took forever. Pours midnight black with a tan active fizz head. Sweet chocolate, slight metallic, and almost a pumpkin presentation aroma. Flavor is sweet cream, milk chocolate, hints of roast, and an all around sweet finish. Not a bad stout here. A little different. I like it.
June 23rd, 2014 - Sweet potatoes were a staple crop in my diet for more than a few years, and I still feel light-headed when I remember the gnarled sweet potato vendors out on a cold day in Japan, hawking the root vegetables fresh from the coals. For these reasons, any time I spot a sweet potato beer in the wild, I pay up, giddy with anticipation. Here we have sweet potato in stout form, and conformed to the stout style in appearance, dark and black with a mottled brown belt around the top. But the smell is strange, curious, and inviting. It has that shaggy, wet malt smell that brewery visitors will notice on brew days, with some dark apple sauce sweetness and soy sauce umami. I also catch flecks of pomegranate and strawberry, but nothing directly like the sweet potatoes I’ve chewed on. The body is shockingly light, with some vigorous carbonation, and a sweet and tangy taste, like a well overbooked sweet potato, orange ichor bubbling from from the flesh and caramelizing like a cooled lava flow. I also catch more strawberry and palisade peach, but dark and sultry. This is a stellar beer, a whole chorus of deep, dark sweets, none of which taste of sweet potato, but all of which dance around it, like planets around a root vegetable sun.
Lazy Magnolia’s sweet potato-infused Jeff Stout certainly was an appropriately southern beer to get my first MS rating. Lazy Magnolia uses a light touch with the sweet potato, and it works nicely here. There’s just a hint of earthy, starchy potato. It blends nicely with the regular Sweet Stout notes of cream, buttery chocolate, and dessert coffee. Smooth, rich mouthfeel that seems much fuller than the 4.65% ABV would have you expect. Nice to meet ya, Lazy Magnolia.
Deep dark brown body. Aromas of malt, coffee and chocolate. Nice flavor of malt, coffee and chocolate as well. The finish was a little lighter than most, but still had a decent creaminess.