Hauntingly Familiar
I guess the only beer you could feature a tomb on would be a dark beer, especially if the tomb in question, the Hopkins Tomb, is haunted. That’s right. Phantasms, poltergeists, spirits, specters and spooks. Lost souls, inexistential insomniacs. All the horrors of a Hopkins haunting. Apparently, the tomb is cursed as well, with tales of amateur tomb raiders meeting unpleasant fates. Or are all these manifestations only of the mind? Either way, who you gonna call? When there’s beer involved Ghostbusters* can’t help you. You need to call Cranky Old Men Drinking Beer, and we’re already on the case.
This Breakwall brew pours pitch perfect, as in black. A slim tan head floats directly above the body. It appears that an exorcism of the beer from the glass is required. A traditional roasted malt aroma with a thick pour. But not as thick a mouthfeel, a lighter taste. The sweet stands out, like a cocoa stout. All the flavour is there but it seems unaggressive, as in easy going. There is a mild fizz start to fizzish. The sweet is not discrete, but doesn’t distract or detract from the nice stout flavour which is hauntingly familiar. Not sip to survive, but a big swig stout.
The sweet and the roast, with a touch of fizz, all blend together nicely in a tasty easy drinking stout. As close to a cocoa stout as you can get without being one, or maybe it is one. Whatever it is, curse or no curse, this stout is a tomb worth raiding.
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