Nevermore
Core 3 Brewery

 

A: Dark, cola-ish pour sits a plum black in the vessel with a dominating 2.5 inch golden-walnut colored head. The capping was strongly retaining, frumpy on the surface, yet sat with a firm demeanor, almost refusing to budge, until its slow, untimely collapse leaving loads of sticky wads of lace on the glass walls with consistent and a generous coating.

S: Roasted coffee and chocolate are first noticeable on the nose. Slightly smoky ash and burnt marshmalllow sweetness. Hints of roasted walnuts conclude.

T: The flavor was freshly grounded coffee, wet and oily, smooth and roasty, with a distinguished bitterness and campfire minerality. Smoked dark fruit, charred woodiness with flashes of fresh dark licorice. The finish finds some ashy campfire notes lacing and coating the tongue with a dark bitterness with perhaps some burnt chocolate as well. When things warm up a bit more, lots of cocoa marshmallow come out. nice.

M: Full bodied, creamy and full of substance, while softly carbonated gives this a smooth and slick feel. Milky depth.

O: Overall a strongly flavored dark farmhouse ale is quite the twist out of the norm, charred ash and silky smooth roasted coffee bitterness is sure to please.