Common Thread 2017
Ale Asylum

 

 

12oz can, served in a willi becher glass.

Pours a dark cola brown body, one finger mocha head, short retention, no lacing. Smell is cocoa, roasted coffee bean, dark fruit, a bit of dark chocolate, a bit of lactose-like sweetness, molasses. Flavour is bitter dark chocolate balanced out by molasses, touch of brown sugar, milk chocolate, earthy. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, good carbonation, nice slick feel with a bitter, earthy finish. Overall, a very stylistically solid Baltic porter, good construction and depth.

 

 

Poured 12oz can into small tulip glass. Dark coffee black with a 2 finger brown head that fades quickly and leaves no lacing on my glass. The smell starts off with sweet rich dark chocolate, roasted malt, with notes of dark fruits like figs or raisins. The flavor is a bitter sweet with bit roasted malts, bakers and milk chocolate. A touch of fig/raisin and coffee bean roud it off. A medium in body with a fine carbonation that has a sticky finish. The 70 brewers that collaborated to make this did a marvelous job! It is a wonderful Baltic Porter.