This beer is bloody fizzy.. odd as the bottle was sedate. Nice dark solid brown colour though.
Wow. You can tell from the aroma you're in for something
definite here. It might be good, it might be terrible, but it will leave you in no doubt about what it's trying to say. According to the bottle there's six types of malt, six types of hops, and three types of yeast in this and they positively clamour for attention here.
Burnt oolong, earthy hops, chocolate roast .. sort of a really hoppy, really roasty, really burnt, porter brown ale. Worth trying for any beer nut but maybe not easy drinking as such. Oh and did I mention (notice?) it's 8.1% ABV? Mental as anything. I like it.
7.5 8.0
Tried again .. man this is a big beer in all ways. Big head, big nose, big big big taste.
ReplyDeleteThat said I really like its mental as anything, balls to the wall approach. It does mean there's a pretty forward alcohol, almost rumlike note here (maybe the brown sugar?) which may put off those who don't like strong beers .. for the rest of us it's a refreshingly insane approach to beer. Rated up.