Beer Name: Benevolent Beast
Style: Barrel-Aged Dark Farmhouse Ale
ABV: 8.2%
Color: Chestnut
Cheese Pairing: Tomme (ideally a sheep-cow blend)
Food Pairing: Crepes
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Your Time to Shine" by Monolord
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "Return of the Corpse Grinder" by Massacre
Best Occasion to Drink: Before ambushing your family/friends/coworkers with a bunch of Nerf guns
Brewers' Notes: Every now and then we'll be sitting around the ol' blending table trying to come up with tasty new concoctions when one of our brewers goes into what we can only be described as a "fugue state" and starts madly mixing a straight-up inadvisable number of different beers, only to reëmerge with the beery approximation of pure bliss. And that's probably what happened here! That's really the only way we can explain how we were able to combine this many beers into something that's simultaneously straightforward and complex, while still being completely delicious - a subtle whiff of smoke plays off a subdued fruitiness, which is overlaid by oaken vanilla and a touch of... something that manages to evade description. Perhaps we were... guided by the beast? Wait, no, that's stupid. We just like making tasty beer and this one is good as hell.
Style: Barrel-Aged Dark Farmhouse Ale
ABV: 8.2%
Color: Chestnut
Cheese Pairing: Tomme (ideally a sheep-cow blend)
Food Pairing: Crepes
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Your Time to Shine" by Monolord
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "Return of the Corpse Grinder" by Massacre
Best Occasion to Drink: Before ambushing your family/friends/coworkers with a bunch of Nerf guns
Brewers' Notes: Every now and then we'll be sitting around the ol' blending table trying to come up with tasty new concoctions when one of our brewers goes into what we can only be described as a "fugue state" and starts madly mixing a straight-up inadvisable number of different beers, only to reëmerge with the beery approximation of pure bliss. And that's probably what happened here! That's really the only way we can explain how we were able to combine this many beers into something that's simultaneously straightforward and complex, while still being completely delicious - a subtle whiff of smoke plays off a subdued fruitiness, which is overlaid by oaken vanilla and a touch of... something that manages to evade description. Perhaps we were... guided by the beast? Wait, no, that's stupid. We just like making tasty beer and this one is good as hell.
