Tonight's beer: Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2012)
Chocolate (dark, unsweetened chocolate) and coffee up-front, dark and roasty bitter and dry; dark-bread and caramel and maybe a little toast right behind. Earth, peat, ash, smoke in a background tapestry, with touches of grassy bitterness, burnt fruits, and dark spirits (brandy, whiskey, rum).
Thick and soft and viscous; slightly oily, very smooth, massively drying. Plenty of bready chewiness and syrupy stickiness, but practically no alcohol heat. Decently carbonated.
Deliciouse. Intense and complex and tightly-integrated. Massively drinkable, to the point of slurpable. Powerful, but graceful and surprisingly subtle, with effectively zero warning of the 10% ABV payload. One of my favorite beers, and one I buy plenty of (by my standards) every year; it ages well over the two years I can manage the patience for. Amazingly chocolatey for a beer with no chocolate in it (which is pretty much the point).
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| Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2012) |
Chocolate (dark, unsweetened chocolate) and coffee up-front, dark and roasty bitter and dry; dark-bread and caramel and maybe a little toast right behind. Earth, peat, ash, smoke in a background tapestry, with touches of grassy bitterness, burnt fruits, and dark spirits (brandy, whiskey, rum).
Thick and soft and viscous; slightly oily, very smooth, massively drying. Plenty of bready chewiness and syrupy stickiness, but practically no alcohol heat. Decently carbonated.
Deliciouse. Intense and complex and tightly-integrated. Massively drinkable, to the point of slurpable. Powerful, but graceful and surprisingly subtle, with effectively zero warning of the 10% ABV payload. One of my favorite beers, and one I buy plenty of (by my standards) every year; it ages well over the two years I can manage the patience for. Amazingly chocolatey for a beer with no chocolate in it (which is pretty much the point).
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