For Freedom
Mirror Twin Brewing

Nothing screams 'Murica quite like freedom or Scottish ale! Well, in all fairness, the ale is a red ale and its a craft beer. But a toasty, sweet and nuanced earthiness comes to the Mirror Twin team as one of their initial and flagship beers.

Rusty brown and deeply garnet, For Freedom pours with a creamy off white foam that breaks apart rather quickly. Its rich scent is chocked full of carefully seared sweetness, toasty, nutty, peaty complexities and a slight floral hop scent. Its taste picks up on those sweet suggestions and coats the tongue with caramel, toffee and sorghum.

As the sweetness provides a cakey taste and texture on the middle palate, its understated complexities of peppercorn, peat, bread crust, toast and light coffee brings out a soilish, coffee and cocoa flavor. Broadly woodsy, earthy and peppery, the bitterness is mild, with just enough intensity to take an edge off of the lingering sweetness.

Medium bodied but seemingly fuller, the linger of sweetness and starch is creamy throughout. A hint of cherry and berry accompany a light alcohol spice and provides a welcome distraction from a somewhat flat and cola-like spell just before the finish.