Tonight's beer:
Opens kinda dry and vinous, laden with dried/candied/burnt fruit. Layers of dark chocolate and molasses and caramel lurking through the middle, densely woven with peat and tobacco and earthy bitterness. Smatterings of bourbon, rum, and vanilla. Slides a bit toward dry around the finish.
Thick, dense, a bit oily; lots of bready-chewiness evolves into sheets of syrupy stickiness. Some decent carbonation. Slowly—almost grudgingly—drying. Basically no alcohol presence, especially considering the 10% ABV. Overall, truly massive.
Two years or so in the bottle have given this a bit of a fruity-vinous edge, but it's still delicious.. Intense as hell and bogglingly complex; holds together with bucketloads of grace though I'm not sure "balanced" is exactly correct, here. This is probably about as far as I'd set out to age this, but we have enough of this sitting around that we're likely to en up aging some for longer, by happenstance.
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| Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2014) |
Opens kinda dry and vinous, laden with dried/candied/burnt fruit. Layers of dark chocolate and molasses and caramel lurking through the middle, densely woven with peat and tobacco and earthy bitterness. Smatterings of bourbon, rum, and vanilla. Slides a bit toward dry around the finish.
Thick, dense, a bit oily; lots of bready-chewiness evolves into sheets of syrupy stickiness. Some decent carbonation. Slowly—almost grudgingly—drying. Basically no alcohol presence, especially considering the 10% ABV. Overall, truly massive.
Two years or so in the bottle have given this a bit of a fruity-vinous edge, but it's still delicious.. Intense as hell and bogglingly complex; holds together with bucketloads of grace though I'm not sure "balanced" is exactly correct, here. This is probably about as far as I'd set out to age this, but we have enough of this sitting around that we're likely to en up aging some for longer, by happenstance.
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