Dessert Station - Japanese Fruit Pie Stout
Corporate Ladder Brewing Company

For those proponents of living fruit, there's little worries as virtually no actual fruit were harmed in the making of Corporate Ladder's imperial raisins, pecans, toasted coconut and cinnamon stout. But those who worry about the welfare for nuts and spice have a lot to worry about.

Very dark brown, easily mistaken for dark coffee, Dessert Station - Japanese Fruit Pie Stout pours with the viscosity of milkshake with a slow and dissolving sense of bubbles and froth. But a sultry sweet scent of fudge, brownie and dark chocolate desserts give a pastry-like scent to the session. Decadently sweet to the taste, the early impressions of chocolate, sorghum, honey and mocha resonates in dessert-like form.

As the ale saturates the tastebuds, the middle palate shares the additions of raisins, coconut and cinnamon for complex flavors of sherry, rum, cappuccino and sweet cream. Warming in its flavor and feel, there's a sense of horchata, chocolate covered espresso beans and mole that give the taste a rounded, complex and appetizing set of flavors to go with its lingering malt sweetness.

Full, lavish and pleasantly cloying, the plush stout finishes sweet and dessert-like with a long finish of chocolate and whisky that follow with nutty nuances and soft cinnamon spice.