Basement Darts
Noble Creature Cask House

Really dig this. I feel like im drinking the budweiser of 1600. It's not flashy or palate wrecking. It just taste like you're drinking beer... except beer before America came along. It doesn't taste like Boston lager whatsoever but that beer gives me the same experience. A recreation of a brewers best effort to create the standard pub beer several hundred years ago.

Foggy burnt orange to brown with a moderate khaki foam head settling to a sparse film and short collar.

Lightly nutty and mildly more malty, it's a bit like brown bread, lightly toasted, with a touch of corn nuts and a hint of herbal hops, overall translating semi-bitter.

The nose isn't so great--kind of metallic--but that thankfully doesn't translate on the palate. However, the nose improves to a softer malty breadiness over time, while the taste expresses its bitterness with a hint of wood under a touch of corn.

The medium body is softly filling before crisping up with a fine but delicate carbonation that comes to a lightly tingly, somehow numbing semi-dry finish.

This actually improves in the can over a couple months, sweetening and expressing more pleasant malt flavors. But I can't increase my rating because of that.