 kmweaver (1899), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
May 9, 2008
750mL bottle, #213/792, courtesy of hoppymeal. Thanks, Derek! Pours a very dark chocolate brown color; medium tan head with solid, fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of bitter baker’s chocolate, red grapes and dark fruit, cocoa and some nougat in the aroma; pleasant fruit-infused porter. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: average levels of carbonation; pleasant cherry and dark fruit character mingling with a solid porter core; roasted malts and chocolate and bitter dark cherry character; solid fruit presence, like most Shorts beers, it seems; well-balanced with a tasty chocolate core. Lengthy finish: dark chocolate, nougat and cocoa, and dark cherries.
kramer (1856), sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 6, 2008 25 oz bottle, shared by eclectic @ BCTC. Very dark brown pour with a chocolate brown head. The nose is chocolate covered cherries, roast, and dry roasted peanuts. Heavy roast with meaty cherry flavor, a little alcohol, chocolaty and pitty. Mouthfeel is full and thick with a great mouth coating lingering finish, perfect soft relaxed carbonation.. Excellent beer.
emacgee (991), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Aug 1, 2008 Pours black with a one finger tan head the nose is grainy, definitive popcorn aroma, roasty, some coffee. Flavor shows bakers chocolate, cofee, roasty, burnt, popcorn, a bit thin. No cherry evident. Thin mouthfeel and finishes roasty.
notalush (1994), Rawn-kawn-kohma, New York, USA
Jul 31, 2008 Thanks to mibirder for this - dark ruby, nearly black beer, with a soapy tan lace - strongly roasty aroma, with moderate tart cherries and some tobacco - creamy mouthfeel - dry, roasty, almost smoky flavor - unlike the aroma, the cherry is very hard to pick out, but the char, tobacco and smoke come through quite a bit - as it warms, the cherries become a bit more noticeable, and add a slight tannic quality - pretty nice, but not at all what I was expecting.
beerbill (1197), Laurel, New York, USA
Jul 29, 2008 Bottle shared at Friday’s gathering. Unfortunately, I forgot to jot down who brought this one. Pours very dark brown, not quite black. Very pleasant aroma of cherries with a few notes of chocolate and smoke. Very nice. The flavor is more smoke than anything else with virtually no cherry flavor. I like smoked beers, so that is not necessarilty a problem, but it is a sharp departure from the aroma. Very different and enjoyable.
fredandboboflo (388), East Setauket, New York, USA
Jul 27, 2008 Bottle. Aroma of peat, cherry, chocolate. Flavor sweet cherry, turning to medicinal cherry, not sure that there’s enough roasted malt and chocolate character to escape this medicine. Nice rich mouthfeel though, decent brew.
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