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Choklat

Name – Choklat
Country – United States
Type – American Imperial Stout
Appearance – Pours a completely opaque ink black with a big tan head.
Smell – Cocoa in the nose and it is glorious.
Taste – Chocolate/cocoa taste is absolutely beautiful.  Ever so slight roastedness and a very small alcohol hint.
This was the one that everyone said you had [...]

Iniquity

Name – Iniquity
Country – United States
Type – American Double IPA
Appearance – Pours a very deep black color that lets no light through.  There is a big tan head that leaves a decent amount of lacing on the glass.
Smell – The nose isn’t very strong but I pick up some citrus hops and a bit of [...]

Bell’s HopSlam

Name – Bell’s HopSlam
Country – United States
Type – American Double IPA
Appearance – Pours a crystal clear amber/orangish color with a big white head that leaves a lot of lacing on the glass.
Smell – The nose is hoppy with your big grapefruit and orange hops but also get a presence of passion fruit and papaya.
Taste – [...]

Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock

Name – Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Country – Germany
Type – Doppelbock
Appearance – Poured a very dark brown with a big tan head that left some lacing on the glass.
Smell – Sweet and roasted malts with a cherry like smell as well.
Taste – Sweet malts, roasted malts, bready malts.  Did I mention malts?  A sweet cherry flavor in [...]

Hairy Eyeball Ale

Name – Hairy Eyeball Ale
Country – United States
Type – American Strong Ale
Appearance – Pours a mostly clear deep red color with a very thin off white head that leaves some lacing on the glass.
Smell – Quite a malty nose.  Sweet caramel can be picked up and a slight hop smell
Taste – Sweet caramel and malts [...]

Saint Bridget’s Porter

Name – Saint Bridget’s Porter
Country – United States
Type – American Porter
Appearance – Poured a very dark brown, black more towards the middle, with some deep red highlights along the edges of the glass.  A big slightly tan head was gone quick but did leave some lacing.
Smell – The smell was pretty much just roasted malts.
Taste [...]

Hottenroth

Name – Hottenroth
Country – United States
Type – Berliner Weisse
Appearance – Pours a very hazy pale yellow color.  It good sized bubbly white head disappears rather quickly into the brew.
Smell – The scents were not strong but you could pick up the wheat smell, lemon and some spices.
Taste – The label says it’s tart and it [...]

2 Turtle Doves

Name – 2 Turtle Doves
Country – United States
Type – Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Appearance – Poured jet black with a bubbly light brown head.
Smell – Roasted malts, a bit of coffee, cocoa.
Taste – Very complex with so many flavors to pick up.  The roasted malts and coffee tastes are slightly there but I think the rich [...]

Okocim Porter

Name – Okocim Porter
Country – Poland
Type – Baltic Porter
Appearance – Pours a very dark brown that looks black at some angles with a big tan head that did leave some lacing on the glass.
Smell – Very nice malt smell with some roastedness (I believe I made that word up) in the background.  A very small [...]

Stoudt’s Fat Dog

Name – Stoudt’s Fat Dog
Country – United States
Type – American Imperial Stout
Appearance – Pours a pretty much jet black color with a thin light brown head.
Smell – Roasted malts and coffee are the main smells I pick up but you do get a bit of oats and a little boozey whiff of the alcohol at [...]

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