Ghost
Born Brewing Co.

 

Appearance - Pours a jet black with two fingers of bubbly tan head.

Smell - earthy and leafy hops, roasted malts, cocoa, coffee bean, and earthy yeast.

Taste - earthy and leafy hops upfront. Then it goes into the roasted malts, cocoa, and bitter coffee. The earthy yeast rounds out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes silky smooth with the coffee bean and warmth from the alcohol lingering.

Overall - A bold and flavourful imperial porter from Born Colorado. I like how the coffee bean takes the forefront of this brew. This one may not be more everyone but this certainly is up mine.

355ml can - an Imperial Porter (which sounds like a tertiary Star Wars role), aged on Devil's Head coffee out of YYC's northside.

This beer pours a clear (I think), dark amber-tinged brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent streaky forked lightning pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, acerbic artisan coffee beans, vanilla cream, bittersweet cocoa powder, a touch of licorice root, and some very tame leafy, musty, and herbal noble hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, rich cafe-au-lait, medium chocolate pudding, some earthy nuttiness, and more well-understated herbal, musky, and deaf floral hop bitters.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-caressing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice inherent creaminess pretty much there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the coffee, milk, and cocoa essences duly predominating.

Overall - this is one heady and inviting version of the style, with the coffee addition keeping it all respectful and whatnot. Anyways, a rather pleasant sipper, on yet another unseasonably cold mid-March evening. Oh, and Happy Pi Day, y'all!