As we continue our cross Canada coast to coast toast to the country with the most, we are still East coasting and toasting with a tip of the hat and the glass to New Brunswick.
This is a Boar of the Month Club selection from our friends at Four Rivers. The can shows a boar’s head being ceremoniously served up on a platter for the famished few who aren’t turn off by a snout full of snout. Apparently this ancient English tradition* is making a comeback at some of the finer diners in America. Probably it was never served at the Hog’s Head Inn**, a shady speakeasy in the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade in the imaginary world of Huffenpuffs and Dementors. I can’t see any wizard in their right mind pigging out on boar’s head, so to speak.
How we got from boar’s head, to beer barrels to Harry Potter is neither here nor there, but more like everywhere. Time to get back to our porcine pint, the boar brew at hand.
A dark pour of the boar. Doing it’s best dark lager impersonation. A Schwarzboar? Brown bear black, or is it black bear brown? That reminds me of the old adage about bears. “If it’s black, fight back, if it’s brown, lay down, it it’s white say goodnight.” ***
A roasted malt aroma, mild not wild. It tastes full flavour dark malt, an easy drinking ale, with just a touch of ale bitters on the finish. Smooth body, very tasty. It really does remind me of a full dark lager, with the malt and a bit of sweet in there to, a tasty crushable dark. Did I detect a subtle smoky taste? BBQ’d boar perhaps? They tell us that this is a dark beer that light beer drinkers will love and I would tend to agree. But if you are partial to a dark lager, the schwarz is with this beer too.
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