Night Shift: Snow White Stout

The concept of a white stout, to me, is the same as a Black IPA. Stouts are dark, and while stout really just started as a descriptor for a stronger porter (stout porter), it's since taken on a name unto itself. And where someone once said an India Pale Ale doesn't have to be pale, Night Shift Brewing has decided that a stout doesn't necessarily have to be dark, and it's led us to Snow, their White Stout made with Ethiopia Harrar coffee beans and oatmeal in the mash.
Snow White once ate a poisoned apple that knocked her out till a prince came and kissed her awake, like that makes any sense. What that lady needed was a massive blast of caffeine to get her going. The prince could've just poured a mouthful of Snow for her and she would've woken right up.
Snow pours a very nice golden color and the scent of coffee rises strait up out of the glass. The taste is immediately cowboy coffee, with the granules flowing through my teeth, but the oatmeal provides a nice sweetness in the backbone of this beer. The balance between bitter coffee and sweet oatmeal is amazingly well done, and this beer warms up and gets even smoother. Really surprising, and while I'd consider it more of a cream ale than an actual stout, it's more than just a novelty beer, it's just delicious.