Embro
3cross Fermentation Cooperative

The appearance was a dark brown color with a small finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off fairly quick. Not much lace. The aroma had a decent roasty maltiness with some raisins and smoke. Cocoa powder and a little bit of cinnamon along with a little bit of woodiness and green pepper. The flavor was somewhat roasty and had the smoke play a decent little part with the cocoa powder sweetness, wood and green pepper. The palate was medium bodied with a decent sipping sort of quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt good. Spice harshness isn’t too distracting or palate wrecking. Overall, well, I got everything except the "chile," I thought green pepper, well, still, I’m not worried. Seemed like a pretty good beer of coming back to.

 

Dark, near-black color with a thin, quickly fading caramel head. Smells slightly of pepper over a more-typical stout pallet. Neither flavor pulls through much. Thin. Tasted almost a bit watery; fragile pepper tones getting washed into a below-average, generic stout feel with little milk to speak of.