Tonight's beer: Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2014)
Dark chocolate, with threads of coffee and caramel and molasses; toast and dark bread in the distance. Flickers of earth, ash, burnt fruits (plums, figs, maybe cherries) and smoke around the periphery.Richly bittersweet from the start, evolving gradually toward some gentle dryness. Lurking impressions of whiskey and other dark spirits.
Thick, bready-chewy, a little syrupy-sticky, smooth and softly-carbonated. Gently roasty-drying, filling and satisfying. Roughly zero warning of the 10% ABV—just a subtle glow in the belly.
This was one of the first world-class beers I had, back as I was falling into my beer-nerd rabbit-hole; it's definitely a formative beer for me. Breathtakingly intense and staggeringly complex, beautifully balanced and well-integrated. Supple and subtle and graceful, distressingly drinkable. Yum.
 |
| Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2014) |
Dark chocolate, with threads of coffee and caramel and molasses; toast and dark bread in the distance. Flickers of earth, ash, burnt fruits (plums, figs, maybe cherries) and smoke around the periphery.Richly bittersweet from the start, evolving gradually toward some gentle dryness. Lurking impressions of whiskey and other dark spirits.
Thick, bready-chewy, a little syrupy-sticky, smooth and softly-carbonated. Gently roasty-drying, filling and satisfying. Roughly zero warning of the 10% ABV—just a subtle glow in the belly.
This was one of the first world-class beers I had, back as I was falling into my beer-nerd rabbit-hole; it's definitely a formative beer for me. Breathtakingly intense and staggeringly complex, beautifully balanced and well-integrated. Supple and subtle and graceful, distressingly drinkable. Yum.
Comments
Post a Comment