25th Anniversary Vanilla Doubledog
Poured into a New Belgium globe. The beer is espresso black with a frothy cream colored head. Nice sticky lacing. The smell is of vanilla cola. The beer tastes rather bland at first, but soon opens up with some vanilla cola flavors. In fact, the mouthfeel is cola-like also without the carbonation. But there is a stale, papery taste bout this beer, the same that I get from all of the Abita beers I've had. Overall, Not a bad idea, but I'd much rather have a Breckenridge Vanilla Porter. There is something vague, stale, and papery about this that doesn't work. This will be the last Abita beer I ever have.