Tonight's beer:
Dark chocolate, thoroughly layered with caramel and toffee; coffee lurks behind, alongside hints of nuts, ash, smoke, peat, burnt fruit. Tobacco and baking spice in the distance, touches of vanilla and dark spirits (mainly bourbon). Slides a bit toward dry into and through a kinda lingering finish.
A little heavier and thicker than medium-bodied—a bit sprightly for a 12% ABV stout—with surprisingly ample carbonation. Alcohol presence very subdued. Quickly drying and almost refreshing, just a touch of bready stickiness.
A big and brawny and delicious Russian Imperial Stout, from a couple breweries I haven't done notes on before—though I have happened upon a few of Adroit Theory's beers at bottle shares/tastings. Massively intense and impressively complex, ,smooth and graceful and a lot like balanced, superbly well-integrated and dangerously drinkable. Impressive.
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| Adroit Theory/Reaver Beach The Death of Cthulhu |
Dark chocolate, thoroughly layered with caramel and toffee; coffee lurks behind, alongside hints of nuts, ash, smoke, peat, burnt fruit. Tobacco and baking spice in the distance, touches of vanilla and dark spirits (mainly bourbon). Slides a bit toward dry into and through a kinda lingering finish.
A little heavier and thicker than medium-bodied—a bit sprightly for a 12% ABV stout—with surprisingly ample carbonation. Alcohol presence very subdued. Quickly drying and almost refreshing, just a touch of bready stickiness.
A big and brawny and delicious Russian Imperial Stout, from a couple breweries I haven't done notes on before—though I have happened upon a few of Adroit Theory's beers at bottle shares/tastings. Massively intense and impressively complex, ,smooth and graceful and a lot like balanced, superbly well-integrated and dangerously drinkable. Impressive.
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