7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a fairly dark copper almost brown color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at a moderate pace. Soft stringy lace.
The aroma had some earthy/grassy/hay-like qualities over top of some dried caramel/toffee malts. Light toast, some herbal qualities and a little bit of cardamom end up rounding it out fairly nice.
The flavor seemed to balance all of the previously mentioned aromas together fairly nice. Which leads to a fairly dry sort of malty and earthy aftertaste and an even drier finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Cardamom doesn’t block the sessionability of this as I thought it would have. Just seems to balance fairly nice. ABV felt fine.
Overall, another nice brown ale by the folks at Blackrocks. They do know how to do this style well.