Alone in the Dark
Branch and Blade Brewing

 

This is an odd yet tasty animal. Poured into a 13 oz Foam Brewing glass canned on 8/21/18. Pours a cloudy brown with a 3 finger off white head that leaves loads of big patches of lace as it slowly settles. 4

Smell is faint coffee, cocoa, honey, vanilla, cherry, and mango. 4

Taste is much more tart cherry, grapefruit, vanilla, with some cocoa and coffee. 4

Mouthfeel is a big medium, gentle carbonation, a tad gritty, and at 7% goes down pretty darn easy. 4

Overall these are odd, but can be plenty pleasant once you get used to its odd flavors and look. Great name. 4

Pint can "are you affraid of the dark?" bottom of can. 8/21/18 opened on 9/25/18

"Frappe IPA" brewed with lactose and and fruit adjuncts.

Alright, well.. I poured 3/4 of the can into a Treehouse long stemmed ipa glass. I was a bit suprised by the muddy-brown color. O.k so it's dark...opaque brown. Off white, rather light foamy top. Settles down slow.

The aroma...it's weird. I guess, a bowl of charred oats with milk , chemmy bakers chocolate and dried herbs and spiced mixed in shouldn't seem too weird for a beer....?!!!.
I'm not exactly sure what the adjuncts or additions are to this ipa...but man, is it ever strange! Burnt dark wheat, darkly charred oats, bakers chocolate and maybe some brown rice mixed in makes up most of the taste. Subtle, earthy, dark, herbal hops are in there, alpng with some sort of dark ghpstly presence that I will concider to be malted barley.

Corriander and dark wheat, major hetbal hop-like effect with some subtle tones of dark fruits, pine needles, nettles and straw come out after the sun rises.

The mouthfeel has a dry-silky-style bite, dry again, earthy, leafy effect, with woodsy and bitter notes, lactose tries to make it smooth but falls short just before the setting of the sun.

This thing is just weird. And I love my new hopscentric hometown brewery! But, damn...I just dont know what to make of this.