Black Raven Barrel Head Brown Porter
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From the brewer
Barrel Head Brown is our Tamerlane Brown Porter aged in Woodinville rye and bourbon whiskey barrels that they actually aged maple syrup in. During the conditioning process we added a bit of coffee to add to make what some would consider to be a one of a kind breakfast beer.
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Sweet whiskey & barrel on the nose, but the flavor is more straightforwardly porter, coffee, maple syrup. Lots of prickly carbonation. The real love-it / hate-it feature is the sweet finish, which really is an over-the-top, soda-syrupy maple sweetness. It lingers on the mind, if not in the throat: the finish is surprisingly clean, & not cloying. I'm still mixed on it.
Light smell. Sweet, sweet start. But it disappears quickly-- with the carbonation it's like a slightly sweet soda. Clean taste, slight finishing tack. This is a sweet beer I can get behind.