The stars were aligned for this one.
A Crownsmen show feature brew from Victoria, BC, this beer is in many ways much like the show. A perplexing mystery wrapped in an unfathomable enigma. Just as we never know where the show will go, or why anyone even watches it, or if anything on the show makes any sense, the absence of sense of course being nonsense, so too are we unaware of what type of beer we are sampling on today’s show. Hoyne tell us the reason they don’t identify what type of beer their Dark Matter is, is because they don’t know. Which begs the question, what’s the matter?
When it comes to science, real dark matter is an invisible and hypothetical form of matter. It seems to be a scientific construct to explain the effects of gravity that cannot be explained by conventional science. Which begs another question, is it actually real, or does it even matter? Hoyne seems to think so because they call it, and I quote “the elusive unseen fabric upon which our universe is embroidered.” How’s that for making it real.
On to more important matters, as in the Dark Matter in my tankard. Dark and mysterious it is. As dark as a black hole, which are essentially black because they absorb all light, reflect on that. Quite stable in its liquid state, a condition which at times eludes me. This beer is not at all hypothetical or invisible, anti-hypothetical one might say. * An aroma of light roasted malt and chocolate is our initial step in unravelling this mystery. The first swig is a light roasted malt, cocoa, no coffee and a mild bitter finish with a slight coca cola fizz. I would agree with Hoyne, this is not a stout or a porter and definitely not a brown. By second swig the fizz is gone and what is left is a light dark lager, an oxymoron perhaps but no mystery here. Easy drinking, full flavoured, and well balanced. A Brew Master’s hat trick.
Physics lesson complete, ** with a fluid dynamics lab thrown in for good measure. What we ended up with was a tasty light dark black lager which garnered six thumbs up from the Crownsmen team, quite possibly the only part of the show that made sense.
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