Vanilla Dissolution
Corporate Ladder Brewing Company

 

Although the Florida days are meant for the beach and refreshing drinks, the cooler nights need something richer, something stronger, something more complex. Corporate Ladder looks to the British for such a beer.

Deep and tawny brown, Vanilla Dissolution is shy on froth but bold in aromas as a sultry sweet scent of molasses, brown sugar and vanilla along with chocolate, port wine, coffee and whisky spice. Just as prescribed, its large malt profile shines on the early palate with the sugary sweet taste of brown sugar, blackstrap molasses, toffee, caramel and french vanilla.

Washing the middle palate with malt, the thick, chewy and dense grain sugars give impressions of cake batter before a robust taste of coffee, cocoa, candied walnut and toast shows a slim semblance of balance. Light on bitterness, the late taste rises with a whisky-like warmth coupled with kahlua, port and sherry for a fruity heat to finish.

Full bodied, chewy and pleasantly cloying, Vanilla Dissolution finishes with a soothing spice of vanilla and a linger of brown sugar and port once more.