Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative Law & Porter Special Chocolate Unit Ancho Chili Edition

Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative Law & Porter Special Chocolate Unit. 6.8% ABV, 46 IBU. Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative, Minneapolis, MN.

Solid darkness, slim light brown-ish head rings above.

In the nose: Slight sweetness, bittersweet espresso notes, traces of cocoa. Dark. malts.

In the mouth: Bitter and sweet take the stage together, chocolate steals the show. Medium bodied, rich and full on the palate. Smooth and malty, nice and chocolatey, with a little heat popping out in the end. Not from an addition, like peppers, I assume, just alcohol heat? Anyway, all in all, it's a tasty one.

(Note: For reasons that no one can understand, I never bothered to read the sticker on the label. The skull & cross-peppers warning that this was the Ancho Chili Edition. I looked it up, and couldn't find any note about there being peppers in the beer. Until I realized I forgot to look up "Ancho Chili Edition." You'd think I'd notice a skull & cross-peppers. Going blind, I think.)

This porter has dark chocolate and toffee flavors with a solid hop backbone expected from this style.

Hop Backbone? That's a new one.