Double Depth Charge: Mexican Mocha
Wild Mind Ales

Look: Pours opaque and black from the crowler. Large and thin, dark brown bubbles form, eventually creating a thick, densely packed and espresso foam colored head. As the head settles and I take a couple sips there is a curtain of lacing around the glass. Lots of lacing. No visible carbonation.

Smell: Out of the fridge, a smooth and creamy coffee aroma. Every ingredient comes through, with the coffee, cinnamon, chilies and vanilla most obvious. It is not an intense aroma, but it smells balanced. Nothing is overpowering. It does not smell like pastry stout, like very sweet and ingredient heavy. After sitting out of the fridge for about an hour the aroma gets more of a burnt toast aroma and the chili starts to come out a bit more. As does the 9.5% ABV.

Taste: Same concept with the flavor. Everything is present to varying degrees and all ingredients are extremely well balanced. The tip of the tongue offers some sweet milk chocolate and mild coffee with a cream and sugar. Mid palate it dries out a bit with notes of cocoa, dark chocolate and coffee. It turns slightly bitter and toasty on the finish. The pepper takes on a larger presence as the beers warms up. I am not sure where Morita chilies fall on the head index. They are very nicely integrated here and provide a very mild and long-lasting earthy flavor to the beer. As the beer warms even more it gets more chocolatey and the thicker. Fudge and batter. Also, the heat comes out come, and increase from a mild to medium level.

Feel: The feel is smooth and creamy. Relatively lower carbonation.

Overall: A very enjoyable stout representative of the ingredients added. It is not a pastry stout and is pretty easy to drink as well. The 9.5% ABV is hidden on the aroma and taste.