Dunkel Dragon
Analog Brewing

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - an 'Italian espresso dunkelweizen'. Sure hope their brewing neighbours up the street have a sense of humour about the name here.

This beer pours a murky, dark orange-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a few instances of forked lightning pattern lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of rich artisanal coffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, puffed wheat, acrid earthy espresso beans, lactose, medium chocolate, faint char, and more understated leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a bit of coffee acerbity taking things down a notch or so at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the java, malt, and cocoa essences predominating.

Overall - this comes across as a rather well-constructed coffee brew (ha!), if one that perhaps obfuscates any subtleties that may or may not be present in the base offering. Anyways, you all that will probably love this already know who you are.