Darkest Hour - Oak-Aged With Coffee And Cascara
Anchorage Brewing Company

 

 

 

Aged for about a year. Very dark appearance with rich deep brown head. Aroma is a rum whisky cognac with a touch of coffee. Taste is also a very smooth rum whisky cognac with very little coffee and no alcohol aftertaste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee. Whiskey. Beer. What's not to like. Pours pitch black and drinks like motor oil

 

 

Many thanks to tacosandbeer for this can.

A - Dark brown pour with minimal lacing.

S - Bourbon/whiskey aroma with intense molasses and dark roasted brown sugar.

T - Oak tannin, toasted raisin, molasses, whiskey / bourbon, vanilla. This beer has layer after layer of complexity.

M - Thick and viscous mouthfeel.

O - A MUST seek!!!!

Pours blacker than most beers I’ve ever seen. Truly black as it gets. The head is even dark brown like tar. The smell of the beer is sweet with molasses and burned sugar. Oak and some coffee in there too. The taste is rich with chocolate whiskey flavors and wood. The feel is dense and thick, light carbonation which fits the style nicely. Overall this beer is massive. Very impressed and pleased to try it.

 

 

After having the Spanish Brandy barrel aged version of this beer about a year ago, I expected a big, bold stout, complemented by barrel characteristics, as opposed to an over the top barrel forward beer. Such was my experience with the aforementioned version. This one was the same. A stout first. A viscous, roasted, dry and bitter stout. With delicate barrel characteristics and a some coffee as well. Poured with the viscosity of engine oil, but pitch black. The darkest brown head I’ve seen on a beer. It’s a wonder that this beer sat 15 months in whiskey barrels and had such a subtle barrel note. I think that speaks to the sheer size of this beer.

I don’t usually smoke and drink together, but I paired this with a Cohiba maduro and they both stood up perfectly to one another. World class stuff.

Pours midnight black with a thin brown head that disappears completely and leaves no lace. The smell is of dark chocolate, coffee, whiskey, pipe tobacco and licorice. The taste follows with equal parts chocolate, coffee and whiskey with accents of dark fruit, oak and vanilla. The texture is viscous and thick with low carbonation.