Fleetwood Mac ask us if we have any dreams we would like to sell, meanwhile Gary Wright is weaving a few of his own. Gordon Lightfoot’s broken dreams sometimes make him sad and mean, while Billy Joe Armstrong named a boulevard after his. COMDB broken dreams could well be our pursuit of free beer, but that’s another story.
Is the siren song*, alluring and yet dangerous, a precursor to a broken dream? Is a broken dream only small step on the pathway to enlightenment? Is this train of thought perhaps too deep for a beer review? Is the answer to this question and the previous three a yes? Yes?**
Siren Craft Beer out of the UK tell us that this brew is “smooth, unctuous and moreish”. Time to dust off the old Thesaurus. Apparently “moreish” is a British term to describe a food or drink that makes you want to have more of it, makes sense. And according to Webster’s “unctuous” means obsequious and sycophantic. Thanks Webster, glad that’s all cleared up.
Short and stout, as in a stubby can of breakfast stout. A flat black pour, with a slim tan head, alluring, and perhaps dangerous, some may even say moreish. Is this the stout of my hopes and dreams? Time and taste will tell. A roasted malt aroma with a nice coffee backdrop, not strong but steady. A full flavour of coffee with roasted malt and slight bitter on the front end, with a sweet choco finish. Cocoa sweet with espresso bitters. Not too sweet, not too bitter , not too roasty toasty, not too espresso. Despite the fact that the coffee flavour stands out and is very good, it still doesn’t overpower the rest of the brew. A very nice well balanced breakfast stout. Siren also has a nitro hard pour Broken Dream which I would love to try.
Moreish, most likely. Unctuous, obsequious and sycophantic, maybe. Delicious definitely.
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