Tonight's beer:
Opens with a blast of roasty flavor: dark unsweetened chocolate, strong coffee/espresso. Toffee and nuts and caramel alongside dark bread and toast, back a step or two. Dried/candied/burnt dark fruits (cherries, maybe dates or figs), hints of vanilla; smoke and ash and peat and earth arise into a gradually dry finish.
Thick and dense, bordering on oily; softly chewy, evolving to syrupy stickiness. Decently carbonated, eventually struggling toward dry and cleansing but never entirely clean. Smoothly warming, but remarkably little alcohol presence, as such.
A delicious Big Stout, burly but pretty straightforward compared to some of the over-the-top (but still delicious if somewhat different) American Imperial Stouts. Still, intense as hell and impressively complex, wonderfully integrated, poised and confident if not exactly balanced. Supple and graceful and gloriously drinkable. I'm always happy to grab this beer when it comes around (and put some aside to age out for a few years).
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| Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2016) |
Opens with a blast of roasty flavor: dark unsweetened chocolate, strong coffee/espresso. Toffee and nuts and caramel alongside dark bread and toast, back a step or two. Dried/candied/burnt dark fruits (cherries, maybe dates or figs), hints of vanilla; smoke and ash and peat and earth arise into a gradually dry finish.
Thick and dense, bordering on oily; softly chewy, evolving to syrupy stickiness. Decently carbonated, eventually struggling toward dry and cleansing but never entirely clean. Smoothly warming, but remarkably little alcohol presence, as such.
A delicious Big Stout, burly but pretty straightforward compared to some of the over-the-top (but still delicious if somewhat different) American Imperial Stouts. Still, intense as hell and impressively complex, wonderfully integrated, poised and confident if not exactly balanced. Supple and graceful and gloriously drinkable. I'm always happy to grab this beer when it comes around (and put some aside to age out for a few years).
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