Big Boss The Big Operator Ale with Raspberries and Cacao, Belgian Style Ale. Big Boss Brewing Company. Handle Your Business. (???) Brewed and bottled by Big Boss Brewing Company, Raleigh, North Carolina. 8 % Alc. by Vol.
"A Belgian-influenced Black Ale aged with locally roasted cacao from
elemental Chocolate Company of Raleigh and real raspberries shipped to us overnight from the Pacific Northwest. Big O is a deceptively delicious beer."
Deep brown, nearly black, under a beautiful roasty brown head of foam, long lasting, if thin.
Aroma: Rich, thick chocolate notes, with raspberries far behind. Wait a minute, wait a minute…there they are! Very nice.
Taste: Mmm. Nice, tingle of hops up front, then the thickness of the malt, mellowed a bit, assuredly washing down the throat. Scrumptious. Big, fat, and tasty, but more like a Russian Imperial Stout, than any Belgian anything I'd ever had. Doesn't taste even slightly like a Belgian, at least not yet.
The raspberries are still hiding behind the cocoa (or cacao), they're still sly and subtle. A touch toasty, big and roasty, sweetness emerging, but kept at bay by bitterness.
My first from this brewery. I'm ready for more.
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