The Obscured
Alma Mader Brewing

Our second collaboration with the wunderkinds at Westbound & Down. Most know them for making some of the cleanest and best IPAs out there - fewer know they thrive just as comfortably on the dark side.
This beer is a blend of two stout bases - a wheated stout aged in Heaven Hill barrels for 29 months, and a Russian Imperial stout aged in Woody Creek barrels for 15 months. Once the blend was set, we conditioned it on raw and toasted coconut, Madagascar and Ugandan vanilla, and amburana staves.
Both bases brought rich dark chocolate and a subtle roast character — the right stage for 50 lbs per barrel of coconut. The coconut and vanilla together are silky and decadent, landing somewhere in the neighborhood of German chocolate cake. It flirts with pastry territory without fully committing. The amburana pulls it back into balance with a warm spice — think crushed cinnamon graham crackers — cutting cleanly through the sweetness.
As the indelible Bone Crusher once said: we ain't ever scared.