Severance
The Eighth State Brewing Company

Sampling a cellar temp 375 ml bottle poured into my snifter The beer pours a dark chocolate color with absolutely no head foaming up even after an aggressive pour. At 15.8% , the lack of head isnt terribly surprising.
I really like hazelnut as an additive so have high hopes for this beer.
The aroma is toffee and caramel with some dark chocolate a good bit of fusol booze and some mild coconut. The sweet hazelnut is buried behind the booziness but I find it with some deep sniffs, which also reveal a little vanilla.
First sip reveals a sticky textured medium to thick body with very fine and slightly tingly carbonation. The carbonation is sort of spacious, but still is present on the palate. I get some warming booze immediately and on the swallow too. Yup, this is a sipper!
The flavor is complex and deep with heavy malt notes of toffee, brown sugar and fig mixing with some hazelnut and dark chocolate. Leaves a sweet sticky coating on my lips that is like dark fruit dipped in melted brown sugar. I dont find the coconut on this flavor profile and there isnt really any hop balance either. The warmth kicks up on each sip and the sweetness on the front end covers it briefly.
This is a complex malt forward beer that I will be sipping through the rest of this evening. Very glad to have tried this one!