Drain the Blood
Changing Colours Brewing Project in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Brewed at/by: Poco Brothers BrewingStrong Ale - American Regular
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Score
6.32
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Medium brown and murky. Thin, some vanilla, low bitterness. Maybe a bit nutty, but this is half-baked at best. Everything is timid, like wanting to say you made a big beer without putting in the work to make a good one.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Odd winey/fruity nose and fore. Light chocolate and something undescribable in mid and finish. Medium alcohol heat, good lacing
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
473 ml can. Pours a very dark brown with full tan head. Aromas of dank grassy hops, green coconut, and roasted malts. Flavors follow same with the dank hops taking over. Chocolate, vanilla, and coconut take a back seat unfortunately. Way off balance and more like a dark IPA to be kind.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
473mL can, pours jet black with a medium light brown head. Aroma has plenty of cocoa, vanilla and weird grassiness upfront, with subtle coconut in back. Flavour is bizarre, with lots of herbaceous, grassy hops upfront that meld awkwardly with the cocoa, vanilla, and cocoa. I don’t have a problem with the body but the melding of flavours doesn’t really work—very grassy, almost vegetal notes in there with the adjuncts and dark malts. Very odd.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Threefold. Pours dark brown with a dark beige head. Cocoa and light grassy hops on the nose. Flavour has bitter dark chocolate, pine, and some kind of vaguely bitter, tropical hop expression. I want to like this, but I think the hops dragged this in a weird direction.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from 473mL can (pkg 23 Oct 2025). Dark brown with small beige head. Dark malt, feint soured chocolate malt, thin-medium body. Not picking up vanilla or coconut. Average.