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From the brewer
For this seasonal offering, we started with Irish Death, our dark smooth ale that presents a full malt flavor laced with caramel, chocolate, dark fruit, and a touch of sweetness. To this heavenly ale, we added fresh, locally roasted espresso beans and pure cocoa. The result is a bit of confusion, “should this go in my coffee mug, or my pint glass?” Answer: both. This beer is up front with enormous coffee aroma, with the cocoa playing the sideline, until the taste. Lacking bitterness, the flavor comes forward with a rounded balance of coffee blending gracefully with the creamy malt body and soft cocoa flavors. Dark beer, chocolate, and coffee. You’re welcome.
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Let's be honest, this wasn't going to make an impression at all after the other two.
Middle of the tongue sweet with a sour-ish end. Moderate mocha taste but without being tacky, syrupy, or lingering sweet-- which is nice.
Resembles a thin-bodied porter with a heck of a coffee fragrance. Flavor-wise, it's not as overpowering as you'd guess from the smell and tastes of rather good coffee, which was nice - no burnt sourness! Clean, silky finish, reminiscent of regular Irish Death.
Roasted coffee smell. Bitters present from both cocoa and espresso and the thin finish is mostly of cocoa.