Tonight's beer: Samuel Adams Dark Depths
Chocolate and coffee; dark bread, grass, flowers, pine. Strong fruit presence—some citrus, some darker and burnt. Ash and smoke lurking around the edges. Nuts, toffee, nougat off in the distance, with traces of earth and peat. After a bit of sweet at the start, mostly dries out.
Medium-bodied, with lots of carbonation; roasty. Some bready-syrupy-resinous stickiness on finish, but otherwise pretty clean; Cleansing, drying, and refreshing.
An interesting beer that I'm taking to be some sort of hybrid of a Baltic Porter and a Black IPA. I certainly get elements of both styles, so there's that. Intense and complex, integrated and balanced. Impressively drinkable. Good to see a big craft brewer continuing to try new and different things.
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| Samuel Adams Dark Depths |
Chocolate and coffee; dark bread, grass, flowers, pine. Strong fruit presence—some citrus, some darker and burnt. Ash and smoke lurking around the edges. Nuts, toffee, nougat off in the distance, with traces of earth and peat. After a bit of sweet at the start, mostly dries out.
Medium-bodied, with lots of carbonation; roasty. Some bready-syrupy-resinous stickiness on finish, but otherwise pretty clean; Cleansing, drying, and refreshing.
An interesting beer that I'm taking to be some sort of hybrid of a Baltic Porter and a Black IPA. I certainly get elements of both styles, so there's that. Intense and complex, integrated and balanced. Impressively drinkable. Good to see a big craft brewer continuing to try new and different things.
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