Hammerheart Ochre and Ashe Black India Pale Ale

 Hammerheart Ochre and Ashe Black India Pale Ale.

7.2 % ABV, Hammerheart Brewing, Ely, MN.

Utter blackness, complete opacity, creamy tan foam.

In the nose: grassy & piney meets dark malts, spilling out of the glass and up into the snoot. Hugely hoppy. 

In the mouth: again, hops on top, rich malts just below. Just enough bitterness to buzz the palate. Smokey malts keep the fires burning. Full bodied, rich and delicious. Bitter mingles with sweet in beautiful harmonies here. 

I’m drinking from a sample can, but this is so good, I am going to buy a four pack and keep the love going for this extraordinary brew. 

Invoking the smoke of sacred fires. Evoking the animistic hauntings of a beautiful and mysterious landscape. Ochre and Ash celebrates new sounds of familiar spirits as much as it celebrates the very cave paintings of its namesake. Brewed in honor of fauna.

I’m glad that I could swipe that off of the internet, for the font on the label was painfully hard to read. And that should be Fauna, as in the metal band, not the classification of animals.