Blue Diamond Stout

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Blue Diamond Stout

by David Friesen
(Beer Delegate, China)

Blue Diamond Stout: well worth checking out if you find yourself in a China (beer) crisis

Blue Diamond Stout: well worth checking out if you find yourself in a China (beer) crisis

Blue Diamond Stout comes in a 350ml can. This dark stout beer has decent alcohol content at 4.7% ABV and is allegedly brewed in Southern China. I say allegedly because the can is all in Chinese apart from the words "Stout Beer", so I had to take someone else's word for it.

I know that the Blue Diamond brand is quite popular in the South of China and can also be found in quite a few shops in Beijing too.

Although this is a stout beer, I wasn't expecting anything of Guinness or Wrassler's proportions. I poured the beer and was met with a slightly watery dark malted brew with quite a strong alcohol smell. One thing that the Chinese brewers have not learnt to do well yet is to brew beers with higher alcohol contents that don't immediately smell or taste strongly of alcohol.

Despite the lack of refinery, the malt taste was good and the beer was nicely rich. It reminded me of a pint of English mild, but with a much stronger alcohol taste – not that the alcohol taste was particularly unpleasant or anything.

Blue Diamond Stout is definitely not the most refined stout I have had and there are probably better in China.

However, it is reasonably good and the rich malty taste is a welcome change from some of the bland lagers around. I will definitely be buying it again in the future.




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Blue Diamond Stout
by: Redneck Chinaman

Here in China, most beers have low alcohol and little taste, unless I spend a fortune buying imported beer, which usually is more expensive than in the USA. But, I have found that mixing a Blue Diamond Stout with a Pearl River Lager is not too bad, sort of a Chinese black-and-tan. Alcohol content is still low, but the chocolate-like taste really adds some zing to the otherwise bland Chinese beers.

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