Tonight's beer:
Starts out very sweet: caramel and dark chocolate on top of heavily-toasted bread, layers of coffee right behind, layers of molasses and licorice and maybe toffee woven in. Ash and smoke arise through the middle, with a touch of chili heat, touches of burnt fruit and spice around the edges. Earthy-peaty bitterness emerges at the very end, as the beer shifts fitfully toward dry.
Very thick, chewy, big sheets of syrupy stickiness; thinly carbonated—not quite still, but close. What heat there is, is at least as much the chili peppers as the alcohol. Gradually edges toward drying; filling and satisfying.
A very big and very tasty Big American Stout, laden with chocolate and coffee flavors (not a shock, as the beer is spiked with them). Seriously, intense as hell, and insanely complex. "Balanced" isn't the right word, but the beer is nicely-integrated, graceful, supple, shockingly drinkable in a big dessert beer way. Highly recommended as a big sweet stout, spiked with stouty flavor stuff.
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| Prairie Bomb! |
Starts out very sweet: caramel and dark chocolate on top of heavily-toasted bread, layers of coffee right behind, layers of molasses and licorice and maybe toffee woven in. Ash and smoke arise through the middle, with a touch of chili heat, touches of burnt fruit and spice around the edges. Earthy-peaty bitterness emerges at the very end, as the beer shifts fitfully toward dry.
Very thick, chewy, big sheets of syrupy stickiness; thinly carbonated—not quite still, but close. What heat there is, is at least as much the chili peppers as the alcohol. Gradually edges toward drying; filling and satisfying.
A very big and very tasty Big American Stout, laden with chocolate and coffee flavors (not a shock, as the beer is spiked with them). Seriously, intense as hell, and insanely complex. "Balanced" isn't the right word, but the beer is nicely-integrated, graceful, supple, shockingly drinkable in a big dessert beer way. Highly recommended as a big sweet stout, spiked with stouty flavor stuff.
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