About to down a Sunset at sundown.
It’s not The Clash,* but London is calling to tell us about their Organic 4PM Sunset suds, their oatmeal stout. And the COM are here to answer the call. So there’s a Sunset going down (sounds redundant) and my train of thought stopped at a station called Sundown, a song from the late great Gordon Lighfoot.** Back to reality, or as real as it gets around here, and our craft connoisseur RA had previously tackled this stud of a stout with a super suds score extraordinaire, and posted a great sunset portrait to go with it. So it comes to me with an all star reference, but who knows what rating it will come up with this time. Actually, I do because I sampled it last night.
A post sunset cloudy night kind of dark going down here. Full roasted malt and coffee aroma, provides a well needed wake up call. First swig is full flavour with some sweet. More bitters that I expected, more ABV too, a little more of everything in this one, but it all works. This brew has traded smooth for flavour, with a bitter espresso finish grinding out the remains of the day. More of a coffee than oatmeal stout in my books. Breakfast menu at sunset, sounds like we are working the night shift here. The bitters braved the salty snack unabated and held their own, which sounds awkward and uncomfortable.
RA gave it all-star super suds status. I don’t think it would be smooth enough for JT. For me, I’m on the white line, in the middle of the road on this one. It’s tasty with aggressive bitters all being semi balanced. Because I was craving a stout it ended up on the super suds side of the track.
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