Infanticide. Pure and simple. It did not have to be this way. If I had only stocked the stash properly I wouldn't be dipping into the bottles I have no business opening.
Too much hop still around after the best part of a year, right now I am getting something like a white grapefruit section covered in baker's semi-sweet chocolate. It's not so much unbalanced as far too much prior to balance. There are tangs and sweets, herbals and maltinesses in there but they have yet to come into their prime. An awkward teen of a beer. Pours a deep deep mahogany with a rich lacing mocha head that resolved into a thick froth and rim. The nose is dark chocolate with a bit of black licorice. I like but I would have liked it more in 2014.
