Bit Of The Craic
Carton Brewing Company

No canning date (released on 3/9/22, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 4/12/22

Pours a deep, mahogany-brown body topped with multiple fingers of soft khaki foam; excellent head retention leaves a thin layer of cap, larger, frothy collar, and gobs of chunky, webby lacing draping down and across the walls of the glass.

Aroma highlights an exceedingly attenuated malt roast accented by a silky, leathery subtlety, and delicately charry over time as touches of coffee underscore a vague minerality and bitter bakers cocoa.

Taste opens to bittersweet cocoa with roasty malts accenting a delicately bitter char over the mid-palate as a light minerality and lingering ashy characteristics find distant coffee grounds on the finish.

Mouthfeel features a light body with moderate carbonation, leaving a crisp, subtle texture developing a roasty grit over the mid-palate to a clean dryness becoming more actively prickly with subtle bittering on the close.

The level expression of a dry stout is not overstated here, shining through with a clean roast and quality both malt-forward and infinitely approachable.

Packs a huge smokey char for a 4.4%. Brilliant as they say in Ireland and British Isles.
a) lasting smokey head over brown body.
s) Peat, wood fire, ash, chocolate, tar, old boardwalk wood.
t) follows aroma
f) Pungent, slightly toffee, but clean.
o) Bold.