A touch too sweet, nestle quik and some mochaccino espresso dust sprinkled in. The sweet lactose in the mouthfeel wasn’t the toasty coffee I was looking for, more like a juiced up milk stout, sick vascularirity.
All in all pretty good, the cinnamon was like adding a sidecar to a Vespa, but it was a welcome addition. I don’t know why a 2 adjunct beer gets compared to Abraxas but, I enjoyed this more. A ba treatment would do wonders I would assume. Brandy or cognac pls.
You only YOLO once.
No carb and room temp, Gooby pls.
The saison is pretty by the numbers, no wild aspects, just a grassy dry low abv saison with a light hoppy finish.
If you have had Surly CynicAle, you know exactly what this tastes like.
Also, some head joke
Second only to mocha Wednesday. Such a great beer. Intense sticky sweet nose. Hazelnut, cocoa, bootstrap molasses, brony sweat, and a huge vanilla birthday cake finish. Stripper dust and edible chocolate condoms.
Abv integrated better than all other variants, solid beer and makes me like CR far less.
Despite the rumors of diacetyl, this is still fantastic world class on that 2011, cranberry cherry currant balanced tartness.
Rubbing caramel and mallow foam on my nips. Love this
Consistently amazing, love this beer
Base Chavez: toasty char forward porter that is the cleanest finish on a robust porter this side of Everett. highly sessionable akin to Edmund Fitzgerald, that hard water profile gives a great crisp compliment to the roasted malts, awesome mouthfeel.
Longest Night: nose of zombie dust with that huge citra bouquet, taste of hoppy birthday with a huge mineral resinous presence and a nova II thin body. Nose is all tangelo, tangerine, pineapple, classic citra fist, taste swings closer to the realm of Hoppy Birthday, clean and resinous albeit lacking the exciting fruit profile present in the olfactory.
Simpleton: amped up version of the foregoing, yet strangely higher in drinkability and with a completely different hop bill. The turbid look is alluring with a radiant yellow core. Very enjoyable, lacking a bit of creaminess in the mouthfeel that I usually jones for in the realm of these “dirty” IPAs, but that’s the alkaline profile of the water, not a misstep in the brewing IMO.
Good things in the pipes from these guys.
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