Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti
Bottled on July 16 oh-nine, drank Sept 2 oh-nine. 22oz bottle, with a strangely rusted cap under the foil, poured into my dogfish 22oz snifter. Drank this one while watching Mario Van Peeble's "Baadasss" (aka "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass"). Flat dense black fluid, nice tall chocolate-milk frothy head, settles down to a foggy cap and solid ring of suds, tons and tons of sticky lace all over the glass. Looks wonderful. Aroma is slightly muted, faint brandied chocolate, some espresso, and a dusty minerality. Initial tastes of roast and alcohol. Its strong sweet chocolate flavor that rolls into a creme de cocoa booziness, long finish of wine and whiskey. I feel like this one needs some time to mellow out as the alcohols are a little harsh. Coats the mouth and throat with an ashy 90% chocolate character. The drinking experience of this one is interesting, it starts out sweet chocolate and excellent imperial stout, just before and through the swallow I notice a heavy whiskey alcohol, some of that bite might be the cayenne, but there's no lingering heat to suggest that. This beer does pair wonderfully with a salted chocolate bar that I ate while enjoying my pseudo-documentary blaxploitation film.