This afternoon's beer: Southern Tier Mokah
Dark chocolate and coffee balanced and tightly-braided; caramel trying to break through, standing on the shoulders of toasted dark bread, toffee, nuts. Earthy-grassy flickers off in the distance. Roasty-bitter, then toasty-sweet, then pleasantly dry.
On the thick side or medium-bodied, viscous and dense, gently-carbonated. Softly drying, lots of chew and stick on a long and syrupy finish. A dim alcohol glow, nothing like what I'd expect for 11.2% ABV.
Given the potency of the booze content, an alarmingly drinkable beer. Coffee and chocolate kinda dominant as a joint mutual dictatorship (almost like two sides of a triumvirate), but ample supple stout character to hold things together. Intense for days and complex enough to demand attention. The Blackwater Stouts from Southern Tier are awesome beers, as far as I'm concerned, and this in an excellent example. Yum and yum and yum.
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| Southern Tier Mokah |
Dark chocolate and coffee balanced and tightly-braided; caramel trying to break through, standing on the shoulders of toasted dark bread, toffee, nuts. Earthy-grassy flickers off in the distance. Roasty-bitter, then toasty-sweet, then pleasantly dry.
On the thick side or medium-bodied, viscous and dense, gently-carbonated. Softly drying, lots of chew and stick on a long and syrupy finish. A dim alcohol glow, nothing like what I'd expect for 11.2% ABV.
Given the potency of the booze content, an alarmingly drinkable beer. Coffee and chocolate kinda dominant as a joint mutual dictatorship (almost like two sides of a triumvirate), but ample supple stout character to hold things together. Intense for days and complex enough to demand attention. The Blackwater Stouts from Southern Tier are awesome beers, as far as I'm concerned, and this in an excellent example. Yum and yum and yum.
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