Happy new year Mother Funters!!
Isn't it magnificent? The gift of another year to piss about on the internet and pretend to be all that. I fucking love it.
However, I do have a tinge of despair hanging about me this evening. I have been on holiday from work for two weeks now and it is totally coming to an end.
The woe runs high with me.
So I need something to combat this woe. Something to perk me up and make me feel alive like it was two weeks ago and the holiday was about to start.
What better to do the job than hideously strong, coffee beer!!
Raar!! Let me delay no more and introduce the first of their dark majesties!!
From the marvelous Beavertown Brewery comes this cheeky coffee based Imperial stout. Made with Caravan Coffee's Guatemalan coffee beans. Sounds flipping magic.
On a side note I found out that Beavertown is actually owned by Heineken?! Who would have thunk that?
Anyway, to taste!!
It pours black, like the blood of a black bat. I like the look of it, it's a browny black, like an owl doing a shit in the dead of the night. It looks unstoppable.
Go video man, take one for the team!
Ouch and wow. That is one bitter bitter stout. The coffee was strong, perhaps more on the instant coffee style bitterness due to the lack of any other predominant flavours to offset it.
Still, I liked it. A big dark and monstrous stout to start the night off, 7/10 booms!
Next we have more of that coffee madness. Will I ever get to sleep tonight?
12% ABV!? Hot donkeys!? What would my mother say?
This one is a variant on Fierce Beer's V.B.M range. The V.B.M being Very Big Moose. Yes, it always makes me laugh too. this is a small batch special and not their usual brew.
One off's in my experience can be blazingly good... Or just plain shit.
Here's hoping for the former!
Let's go!
This one, quite astonishingly, is blacker than the first. It's blacker than Metallica's black album which was really quite black, and let's not forget shit whilst we are at it.
Anyway I digress. My mouth is still louping from the bitter coal juice that was the last beer. Will this fare any better?
Oh Madame Mocha V.B.M. you are a silken lady in a black crushed velvet dress. May I dance with you once more!
This is great, smooth as anything. Sweet chocolate and vanilla tones jostle with a little caramel against that coffee and toasty malt roast. It's like night and day to the first which wasn't a bad one but pales against this more considered stout.
I love it, 8.5/10 booms!
What a fine pair to start the New Year with. I can only hope that it's a sign that everything is going to be just right this year!
Chin chin everyone and enjoy your weekend!
Cheers!