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Double Stack
- Pastry Stout
- 11% ABV
- Label approved Sep 9, 2022
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Great Notion's Pastry Stout. Label approved 9 September 2022; spotted on 18 September 2026 (in Great Notion's newsletter).
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How to serve it
- Serve at
- 52–60°F (11–16°C)
- Glass
- Snifter: a wide bowl you can warm in your hand, for a small strong pour
About 370–445 calories and 40–58 g carbs
About 215 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Pastry Stout. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
About this beer
This is the 29th of 139 labels we have from Great Notion Brewing & Barrel House. Its label was approved 1 day after it was submitted. The label carries imperial on the front.
A grinning, broad-shouldered figure with long hair and a full beard holds aloft a towering stack of pancakes in one hand and a steaming mug in the other, rendered in a bold comic-inked style with heavy black outlines and golden-tan fills. The character occupies the centre of a dark background, with the beer name arching above in a flowing script and the style designation running vertically in coral lettering along the right edge. The composition balances the figure's exuberant pose against a restrained palette of black, cream, gold, and coral, creating a register that is playful and deliberately cartoonish.
From the label“imperial stout with coffee, maple syrup, natural flavor and caramel color”
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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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Style: StoutBrewery: Great Notion