5 | Beer | New Hampshire

"...Tastes of roasted malts, chocolate, caramel and espresso-like bitters....A ridiculously well made beer. This is everything you want in a porter; big black coffee and nice creamy mouthfeel..."

"...Clean and stabbing bitterness from start to finish, a heavy hand of hop flavor; grapefruit juice, mild pine, tobacco and faint grassiness...This is one hell of a palate smacking IPA! A top-notch brew!..."

"...This is an excellent example of the use of malt. All the flavours have been pulled from the grain, creating a very full, complete and complex brew. By far one of the best brown ales produced in the US..."

"...Perfect mix of hops and malt with all of the yeasty by products...Not your typical pale ale, boldly complex and extraordinarily unique. Perhaps truer to the original style than most pale ales of modern day..."

"...Nice to see a big English style IPA with a truck load of hops on the palate. A great change up if you have been saturated with hops that have a citric tone to them but still want a brew with a huge hop presence..."

"...Assertive wheat and yeast in the forefront with a bit of malt and some light sugars behind...Aftertaste shows a caramel and orange sweetness...Very light for a Belgian-like taste. Highly recommended for outdoors or very casual beer drinkers...."

The nose on this beer gives absolutely no indications of this beers complexity. The appearance along with its huge roasted coffee, caramel and chocolate notes make you think stout all the way until the intensely bitter finish kicks in. Perhaps not as bitter as some of the other black IPA's on our shelves, but still a solid example of the still growing in popularity style.

"..Major fruity esters, boozy, strawberry-rhubarb jam, ripe plum, raisin and underlying malty tones in the nose with a hint of earthy root vegetables. Thick on the palate; vicious, chewy, slick and silky..brewed with 200 pounds of raisin purée per batch.."