Highland's Black Watch on tap at Bottle Revolution now. Amazing coincidence that it's 1.5 blocks from my office.
Highland's Black Watch on tap at Bottle Revolution now. Amazing coincidence that it's 1.5 blocks from my office.
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Black Watch (draft)-Highland Brewing Company
Half pint pour ($4). Onyx with a small, mocha head. This lives up to the memories of when I had this 2-3 years ago. Smells like Ghirardelli dark chocolate brownies and tastes like them, too. Almost chewy, fudgy consistency and amazingly smooth (oats in the grain bill) on the palate. Labeled at Bottle Revolution as a double chocolate milk stout also implies that lactose is added. IBUs about 50 I'd guess and the ABV is 8%, so this is an imperial milk stout. I actually like the Booneshine Long Winter Mocha Stout a shade better but this is still an excellent brew.
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Roadside Prophet (draft)-New Anthem Beer Project
Two ounce taster because it's kinda/sorta local (Wilmington) and I had to try another beer with chilies .
Pour was dark mahogany with a foamy, beige head. Dark chocolate nose and a palate full of spices like vanilla and cinnamon (both added) which muted the mild heat of the chilies and blended nicely with the added chocolate. I'll guess IBUs of 60 and the ABV was 10.7%, both pretty standard for the imperial stout style. I'd certainly order a half pint of this if it's still available next week and sip it over 30-45 minutes to see if "warmed up" over that time. Made me think of Stone's Xocoveza.
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I feel seen:
“A lot of beer drinkers have developed a sort of ADD with respect to the beers they drink, so going for a glass of beer at the bar or pub becomes less a pleasant distraction and more a relentless search for what’s new and exciting. In this mad rush towards the unusual and unknown, we tend to forget the great, familiar and still-wonderful beers that guided us all along the path to the craft beer renaissance,”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2019/01/09/a-new-flagshipfebruary-campaign-aims-to-save-core-beer-brands-before-they-disappear/#6b795a850587
Speaking of beer ADD - Bourbon Rasberry Stout w/Madagascar vanilla beans. One bottle limit from Hardywood.
I can't even have a beer today so this has to go BTTT so someone can enjoy a great one and post about it after that shot.
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I don’t have a great one, I have a lousy one. The Budweiser Copper Lager. Reading the label closely, “aged on real barrel staves.” So not barrel aged. Just tastes like regular Budweiser I guess, I don’t drink Budweiser. No oak or bourbon flavor. 6.2%. Couldn’t even finish it.
But I have a bourbon barrel aged GBS opened to properly celebrate the win. It is a great one
Have I ever told anyone that Fullsteam makes great beer? 🙄🍻
https://www.fullsteam.ag/journal/sou...ood-food-award
Celebrating Cam Reddish's coming off the schneid with Deshutes's Black Butte XXIX Birthday Reserve porter. Brewed with cacao nibs, cinnamon and cayenne, then 50% is aged in bourbon and rum barrels. Deliciously smooth. The cinnamon and cayenne play well off one another, and the barrel aging adds some depth. It looks like the ABV listed on the bottle is around 12% (it's a little blurry, although that might just be the effect of having consumed a goodly portion of this bomber ). I'd guess IBUs in the upper-30s. Another outstanding Deshutes offering.
"Amazing what a minute can do."