Flat Earth Cygnus X-1 Hold Your Fire Porter

Brewed by Flat Earth Brewing Company
Style: Porter
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Growler pour from the brewery today. Dark black pour, medium carbonation and a distinct jalapeno/hot pepper aroma. Flavor hits you right away with the hot pepper spice, then some of the backbone of the original base roasted porter and a nice lingering aftertaste of green pepper and heat. Very good beer, although I can’t envision drinking a whole growler of it.

Pours dark brown with off white head on tap. Big pepper, smoke, and some chocolate notes, with some hint of the vegetal pepper. Taste is interesting, big notes of ancho, some spice and chocolate, with a peppery hot finish, slightly bitter. Like drinking an ancho pepper, was cool for the first sip or two, but finishing the 7 oz pour was intense.

On tap at Winterfest (St. Paul, MN). This is way more up my alley than the Town Hall Chipotle Wee Heavy. The balance is just excellent, porter flavors combined with a nice pepper bite to it. I’m a big fan and this is a good improvement over the somewhat dull regular cygnus. Cool naming with the Rush song themes. One of my favorites from Flat Earth thus far.

Sampled at brewery, poured out of a growler. Pours is black with a small head. The pepper jumps out right away in the aroma. It smells natural and spicy, like dry peppers. Some light roast behind that melding well with the pepper. Taste starts some chocolate but then the pepper kick in hard. The pepper flavor sits in the back of the throat and burnsssssss. How can one not like pepper brews?

Whoa, now this is up my alley. Smells of chilli pepers. First sip greets me with a nice burn of the peppers as well, as well as a few seeds from the pepper and somthing else inside the growler. A good amount of spiciness in the aftertaste. The second grolwer consumed, we squeezed the juice from the pepper into the beer, it amped up the spice factor a good bit, and had my mouth burning for some time, great! One piece of advice, I bit the tip off the pepper, it wasnt very hot. So i took two more bites, and thought I was about to cascade down into the depths of hell!

Sampled at the brewery via growler during Release 5 day on December 4, 08. Pours a near opaque dark brown brew with a thin off-white head that dissipates to a fine film and thin white ring. Aroma is mostly ancho and green bell peppers. Additional scents include coffee, some green vegetables, toasted dark malt, and a touch of raisin. Taste is medium bodied with some light carbonation along with flavors of green peppers, toasted dark malt, some nutmeg, raisin, a little cinnamon, and some fresh spiced tomato paste. Finish has a mild and long lingering spice pepper aftertaste that over-powers all other flavors. A tad spicy during the finish but not over the top like some other fire-brews.