What beer are you drinking now? #1519

Good morning Jim! Cheers to the Day of the Dark!

 

And we're off to a rousing start!
Nicely done!

 

The vast, empty Stillness
Of a heart at Peace
Nowhere but Here
Nothing but Now
All is forgiven
All is perfection
In this silent Grace

 

First came Damnation...

 

Drinking Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale with a Bourbon County
side car, out of respect for Darkness. Sorry no nudity this time

 

This one from @kemoarps is tasting amazing on this icy Saturday morning. Cheers, BAs!

 

Good morning, all, and Happy Day of the Dark! The weather report this morning is calling for overnight temperatures to drop to 15 to 25 below tonight, with wind chills to 40 below. In other words, it's here. Why fight it? Might as well celebrate it!

 

...then eternal Darkness!

 

Good Morning BA, have a great Saturday! I have some delicious stuff lined up to start off my Day of the Dark this morning. Hope everyone stays warm out there, I am cold lol. We are supposed to get quite a bit of snow up here again, but then it is supposed to warm up a bit next week. Weird weather patterns.

Fantastic as usual. Flavors of big toasted coconut, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, cream, toffee, dark bread, and light coffee. Light balancing roast bitterness against sweetness; with an awesome creamy/silky medium body; light touch of sticky/chalky roast character and dryness. I am pretty much certifiably addicted to coconut beers at this point. I've been drinking a lot of the Blackrocks Coconut Brown and Arcadia Porter Rico in the last few months, along with this.


Excellent American stout! Flavors of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, cinnamon, raisin, nutmeg, vanilla, caramel, toasted dark bread, and brown sugar; with lighter notes of coffee, toffee, smoke, and charred grains. Moderate roast/char and piney/spicy hop bitterness on the finish. Medium bodied; balanced malt creaminess, chalky roast/spice, and hop stickiness in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. I like this just about as much as the base beer for the most part, but it has some really obvious differences. It seems to remove all late hopping and replace with the spice/flavor instead; since you still get the bitterness. Feels less aggressively roasty/bitter; in favor of the spice and toffee/vanilla notes. More residual sweetness, which helps showcase the flavoring better. Will definitely keep grabbing more singles.


Outstanding as always, glad the Dark Horse stouts are back in season. Flavors of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, and light smoke/char malt; with moderate juicy/lightly tart blueberries. Balanced bittersweet creamy/silky medium-full body finish; bit of chalky roast and fruit acidity as well. Lightly drying from roast. More pronounced fruit in the nose, but still a nice amount in the taste. Very well balanced. Love this stuff every year. This is still probably the best fruited stout I've ever had, after 5 years since I first tried it. The whole Dark Horse stout series is so awesome(with Plead being world class of course).


Just passed the "Best After" date last week, so I decided to break this one out for the occasion. Tasting incredible! Flavors of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, caramel, toffee, cherry, licorice, vanilla, toasted dark bread, smoke, and charcoal; with underlying notes of oak, red wine, raisin, tobacco, and peppery/piney hops. Moderate roast/char and piney/spicy hop bitterness on the finish. Full bodied creamy/silky/slick mouthfeel; with a fair amount of sticky/chalky roast and hop notes. Increasingly drying roast/char/hop bitter finish. Dangerously smooth sipping. I am still pretty much just as amazed as I remember from April 2013. I had a 2011 vintage for my 1400th beer review at that time. I just hit 4900 last night. Incredible depth and complexity all around.


Cheers!

 

Morning BA! Cheers to a great weekend everyone!

 

Here's my entry.


Wait....day of the dark?
I thought it was day of the dork.
My bad.
Nothing to see here, move along.

 

Oskar Blues • Death By Coconut

 

One of my local favorite coffee beers went from 22 oz at $6.99 and now us $10.99 for a 4 pack of pounders, wonderful progress. Henniker Brewing The Roast.

 

Morning Ba! Been some time since my last post in WBAYDN, glad to be back this morning, Cheers!

 

Glad to see you back!

 

Drinking well, as always, I see! Cheers and again, welcome home!

 

Here's to the Day of the Dark! Cheers!

Are you paranoid
or in this dark hour
did you waste time gazing at the stars
romantically

 

Marvelous! You're out theme-ing the theme.