Spent a pleasant couple of hours last night listening to a talk from the head brewer of four new beers from my local craft brewery Siren, accompanied by a tasting and online chat. The beers in question were a series that's been running for a few years now of stouts flavoured with various different things on the theme of "Caribbean Chocolate Cake" (CCC). This year we had "Nitro CCC", "CCC Pancake Stack", "Barrel Aged CCC" and "Death by CCC". My favourite was the pancake stack, a delicious 7% dark beer that had a touch of smoked malt in the grist and had also been spun on maple wood that had been soaked in Bourbon, a real guilty pleasure! An American breakfast in liquid form!
Would be wonderful to sup by a roaring fire with some stinky cheese and crusty sourdough bread, unfortunately I only bought one set of four and these beers are so rare that they sell out almost immediately, ah well, there's always next year. The others were pretty good too, a royal flush of four great beers from Siren, you can see them all together in the picture below.
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