The Imp and the Madhouse Oyster Stout

Our oyster stout is made with whole Chesapeake Bay oysters from Madhouse Oysters of Fishing Creek, MD. Oysters are added to large teabag-like sacs and suspended in the hot wort for 15 minutes. Our 6.0% stout is neither a dry nor a sweet stout. It is a smooth and very drinkable stout that is a bit salty in the finish. The stout’s name comes from Poe’s short story The Imp of the Perverse where the narrator brags about his clever murderous deed and expresses no remorse in his heinous crime. He continues to insist that we all have in our heads an Imp dictating to us self-destructive impulses. The reader eventually comes to realize the narrator’s insanity and discovers that he is locked away within a “Madhouse.”