10 % ABV. Oliphant Brewing, Somerset, WI.
Something tells me this is Jeremy's Got Talent aged in bourbon barrels provided by Zipp's Liquors of Minneapolis, one of two Minneapolis liquor stores that collaborated with Oliphant in this fashion.
(I didn't need to travel all the way to East Franklin Avenue to get this one, I got it in Somerset.)
The other was A Risk of Cats, with 1010 Washington. I'm stumped about what movie inspires this beer's name and illustration is spoofing. Maybe it'll come to me later.
Complete and utter blackness, fully opaque, with a slim, roasted tan head on top.
In the nose: Dark malts, deep flavors, soon revealing the banana, the vanilla, but not yet the barrel. It's coming, though, slowly but surely.
In the mouth: Big, full, & rich. Massive malt flavors. Bittersweet, but balanced. And underneath the cocoa and the char, emerges hints of banana and traces of vanilla. Just enough sweetness from the adjuncts to shine through the darkness. Everything is in correct order here, nothing dominates or overpowers. Pretty smooth, while remaining quite yum a dum dum. That's all there is to say.
Just yum a dum, dum.
Now it's time to read that copy on the side of the crowler. And I don't feel like transcribing it. Can't someone else do it? It's funny, though, and makes little sense.
Alright, no takes, huh? Here goes: Daniel, the labradoodle you know and love, is enjoying sweet success as a mobile dog perm operator. All of his friends and family get to try out his new dog doos and tell him if they are doo doos! or doo nots!
and so on, and so forth, it's too long, I can't do it, even in quarantine!
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