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’Stoutish’ porter with molasses, vintage bottle still with the previous label, first beer from this Massachusetts brewery for me. Thick, creamy, regularly shaped, pale yellowish beige, lightly lacing mousse atop a very dark, burgundy-hued bronze, near to blackish but still largely translucent and hazy. Elegant and refined aroma of liquorice candy, soggy brown bread, dried cranberries and dito plums, pear syrup, dark berry jam, pistachio nuts, black olives, tea leaves, molasses, gravy, orange peel, dried porcini. Restrained, clean but adequate fruitiness in the onset, lots of raisin and candied fig flavors, sweetish with a brambleberry-like sourish undercurrent, very subtle black olive-like umami touch, bit leathery even in the end, with soft carbo and ’fluffy’, smooth and notably resinous mouthfeel. Caramelly, toffeeish malt middle, sweet with a toasted bitterish edge becoming more pronounced in the finish, meeting with a dash of peppery hop bitterness but remaining gentle and adding liquorice and molasses flavors in the tail, with drying, softly spicy and sweetish effect. Aromatic, elegant beer, which apparently ages graciously, motivating to find out more about this brewery. Much more a robust porter than anything stout-like, though.

375mL bottle, drunk 12/17/16.
Dark mahogany-to-cola body shows good clarity and a greyish-beige head atop that steadily recedes to a ring.
After the traumatic experience that was Fistbump the Void, I was not exactly expecting the most from this, but I do love Fernet, so I had to try it. The nose is surprisingly balanced with the spicing. It most certainly doesn’t smell like a shot of fernet. The spice is certainly there, but there are plentiful esters, phenols, and a good dose of malt, adding bread, toffee and caramel. Herbs, spices (mainly peppermint and anise-like notes) and shockingly low alcohol make for a reasonable mix of both beer and fernet.
The flavor is equally balanced. Granted, this isn’t going to make your top 50 most balanced beers list, but for what it could be, this is pretty reasonable. Very low carbonation, with a sticky-malty body with some slickness from the spice/herbs. It still provides enough malt body to balance and the lack of alcohol has me wondering that this is really 11%. It’s quite a bit of pepper, peppermint, wintergreen and thankfully not as much pure anise that would easily overwhelm. Caramel, esters and breadiness linger. Surprisingly drinkable and pretty well-done given how difficult I think this would be to do well.

Taster at the source pours hazy gold with a nice thin head. Aromas of floral notes earth tones and grass. Taste is biscuit grain then moves to grass and pine. Nice balance between the grain and pine notes.

750ml bottle. Clear, brown-ish amber colour with ruby glimmer and small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Dusty, yeasty aroma, spicy hints of marmite. Taste dusty yeasty, fruity, notes of red berries; spicy yeasty finish.

Bottle, 9.2%. Hazy dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is malt, yeast, dark fruit, plume, toasted and notes of alcohol. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, dark fruit, warming, spices, sweet, wood, notes of alcohol and a little smoke.

Sample from 375 ml bottle. Slightly hazy, amber golden colour with a thin, white head. Sweet aroma with ripe fruits, caramel malts. Taste is sweet. Full body. Finishes dry and fruity.

Fbottled. A hazy amber beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of straw, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.

37.5 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a small off white head. Aroma is wooden and fruity, light herbal and citric. Toasted malty, caramelish. Dark malty. Wooden. Lingering dak malty and toasted. Bitter and dry roasted finish.