Nocturnal Transformation
Civil Society Brewing

Side pulled beer, so that’s exciting. Pours super dark black with a light tan to off-white head. Nose is very similar to a porter. Taste is very much like a porter. Very good beer!

 

Picked up a 16 oz single from G.B. Bottle Shop in Orlando on 1-27-24 for i think $5.99. Canned 10-5-23; consumed 2-10-24.

Beer poured brown with a very nice tan head that has some hang time.

Nose has hints of roasted malts that suggest a hint of sweetness.

Taste is a medium roasted malt base that gives a touch of coffee and chocolate sweetness. Finishes nicely balanced with the roasty malt base and a nice touch of hops.

Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied and is refreshing.

Overall this is a tasty nicely brewed dark lager!

No canning date (released on 11/2/21, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 12/7/21

Pours a jet-mahogany body with deep ruby accents and topped with a finger of creamy, pale khaki foam; decent head retention leaves a few paper-thin islands of cap along with a frothy, moderate collar and steady dispersion of firm, webby lacing along the walls of the glass.

Aromas open to lighter milk chocolate into heavier roast sporting a distant grassiness; a sweeter coffee undertone impresses a roasted hazelnut edge on the back end, where mild minerality guides through the close.

Taste features dark cacao against earthy/floral hop tones upfront, an inevitable charry roast expanding over the mid-palate with a mineralic spritz, fading to undertones of cherry tobacco and ashy coffee on the back end of the profile.

Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body alongside a subtle, moderate carbonation, phasing somewhat creamy textures into an ultra-taut, mineralic glisten over the mid-palate, where a roasty char prickle continues to evolve toward an exceedingly dry finish.

Steady, noncommittal yet somehow cumbersome mineralic yeastiness persists throughout, leaving the malt profile more basically expressed and lacking much accentuation; presented simply, it is a drier dark lager consumed with little thought.