Dark, dark reddish Brown. Mostly smells of slightly piney hops, a little chocolate and a little spice. Smooth. The chocolate roast and the hops fight for dominance on your palate on a background of rye. The flavors alternate, and are wonderfully balanced.
Quite a good beer.
I just picked up the first week of our CSA, and this is everything we got. In the bags at the top there we have lettuce on the left and spinach on the right. The bunches from left to right are a hakurei turnips (a sweet spring variety you eat raw), scallions, kale, dill, dandelion greens, and komatsuna (an Asian green in the turnip/cabbage family).
I'm going to do the math at the end of the season, so here are the weights:
4# Turnips
3.8 oz scallions
10.7 oz kale
2.1 oz dill
10 oz dandelion greens
11.7 oz komatsuna
7.9 oz lettuce
8.6 oz spinach
Cinnamon and spice on the nose and first taste. Actually a rather tasty christmas beer. I'd drink a couple.
Pours an orange amber, quite clear. A persistent lacy head remains. It smells of yeast and maybe grains. Well balanced, but lacking the hop flavor.
An easy drinking ale with a good flavor. Fine if I want something simple but tasty, otherwise not overpowering.
Good coffee nose; poured well worth a lingering off white head. It's a little thin, but I'm drinking it side by side with stones espresso RIS.
I'd give it a 6.5.
Pours dark with a light brown head. Initial notes if chocolate, giving way to a sharp evergreen. This is like a light porter or an underhopped black ipa. It's probably like a dark american ale. Pretty tasty and drinkable.
