Liquid Advent
Taft's Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Built off of the growing popularity of Mexican hot chocolate, the flavor of chili peppers, cinnamon and chocolate blends into the porter styles seamlessly. Taft's Ale House recongnizes the potential and doesn't hesitate to employ the south-of-the-boarder attitude into their winter beer.

Liquid Advent pour a deep and dark brown, easily mistaken for stout. Above its dainty latte swirl are the robust and soothing dark aromatics of the obvious- chocolate and cinnamon upon a dark-roast coffee and molasses-laden nose. Its taste is lavishly malty with molasses and bittersweet chocolate to start the show.

Followed by fresh ground coffee, toffee and burnt caramel, a taste of cinnamon gives the sweetness a spicy balance that precedes woodsy hop bitterness and lively capsaicin heat to finish the offset to malt. Notions of charred wood and smoldering embers round out the smoky chocolate taste before the ale trends drying in finish.

Medium-full, the beer's body though creamy, has a semblance of those drinkable and decadent spicy hot chocolate drinks. Build on a milkshake consistency, the taste of heavy cream turns toasty, nutty and dry to close with a trailing cinnamon and cocoa presence in aftertaste.