From the editor: Golden stout is still one of craft beer’s best party tricks. It pours like a blonde and drinks like a coffee stout, and Karl Strauss has now pulled it off seven years running. Two World Beer Cup medals in the Coffee Beer category say this stopped being a gimmick a while ago. It’s a Southern California winter staple now.
(SAN DIEGO, CA) – Karl Strauss Brewing Company has released its award-winning, seasonal Golden Stout. The 7.5% ABV Ridiculously Limited Release beer is available on draft at Karl Strauss’ nine Southern California brewpubs, as well as in four packs of 16-oz cans at the brewpubs and in retail outlets throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada.
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Golden Stout won a Bronze Medal in the Coffee Beer category at the 2026 World Beer Cup (WBC), which is often referred to as the Olympics of beer competitions. Golden Stout also won a Silver Medal in the Coffee Beer category at the 2024 WBC.
This is the seventh year in a row that Golden Stout has been released. The 2026 edition features coffee from San Diego-based Better Buzz Coffee Roasters. Other ingredients include Ghanaian cocoa nibs, vanilla beans, and Columbus hops – and it skips the traditional roasted malts one would expect in a dark beer.
The result is magic in a glass: a golden pour with silky stout character. Rich coffee, bittersweet chocolate, and soft vanilla, wrapped in a full, smooth body and finishing just sweet enough.
Karl Strauss brewpubs are located in Anaheim, Corona, Costa Mesa, Los Angeles (Downtown), San Diego (4S Ranch, Carlsbad, Downtown, Sorrento Mesa), and Temecula.
Karl Strauss will donate 1% of the beer’s California retail sales to the Restaurants Care program, which provides hope and stability to food-and-beverage workers in California who are in crisis. To find Golden Stout in retail stores, visit: karlstrauss.com/find-karl.
Karl Strauss was voted 2026 Best Micro Brew Pub in The San Diego Union-Tribune’s “San Diego’s Best, U-T Readers Poll.”
