 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm doing a beer from a brewery that actually I really like I haven't had a ton of their stuff But everything I've had I really really like I don't think I talk about them nearly enough on my actual podcast so Giving them their dew at the moment. This is by modern times beer company. They're out of San Diego, California And this is their black house stout They have a normal black house stout, but this is one of their special release ones And it's with coffee toasted coconut and cocoa nibs Sounds very good 5.8% alcohol by buying one of the other things I really want to point out about a lot of their beers that I really like is that they have the IB use on there The SRM which is fun, which people out there don't know what SRM is. It's basically like a color Coding for for beer for like how light or dark it is and then they have the final gravity which You know, it's more of a brewers type thing for the final gravity and that'll help you determine ABV in the end But they also list all their ingredients, which is fun In this case, there was some coffee in it. So they listed where the coffee came are what origins the coffee are from There's 75% Ethiopian Humbella and 25% Sumatran mandaling Which is cool. And then the other ingredients for the beer itself two-row roasted barley flaked barley pale chocolate and Then Munich crystal 60 kiln coffee midnight wheat and oats. So like how they just lay it all out there. It's very cool And also if people are home brewers, it can kind of give them an idea of You know the ingredients they would need to try and replicate this if they wanted to obviously it doesn't have the proportions on there But you might be able to figure it out So let's go ahead and take a look at this It's got a nice tan head on the top. It looks very very dark as you can imagine I don't know why I really feel the need to show it Oh, I haven't really I think on the last one. I didn't actually show the bottle of what I was doing But yeah, there's a modern times special release black house So, you know, that's what it is All right, so I'll smell this smell a lot of chocolate a lot of those cocoa nibs in there Some nice roasty coffee in there as well. I can't really get the coconut though This is an older bottle too. It's not like super sir bottle date I don't think there's a date. There's a bottle date, but I know this this might be about a year old Maybe so maybe that's why I'm not getting a whole lot of coconut in the nose I feel like I have a hard time picking up coconut sometimes though depending on how it's done not something like like death by coconut by Oscar blues, but stuff where it's not as front and center But yeah, I really can't smell coconut It's just like tons of cocoa nib aspects smells very dark chocolatey It's really fudgy smelling too like super fudgy and then Yeah, like a nice really roasty coffee, which is how I really like mine more on the bold end So it's really nice and there's a little bit of like an alcohol on the end of it maybe a little bit of like a Soy sauce note on the end as well Try it really thins out on the finish because it's not an imperial style So usually with beers like this I like it to be imperial stouts just because the body just is more dessert like for me But considering it's just a straight-up stout. I like it. This is good There's a lot of that, you know roasty coffee that I was talking about There's a lot of that kind of chocolatey fudginess from the cocoa nibs toasted coconut Really can't maybe as it warms up because this is still actually pretty cold, but I Can't really get Can't really get the coconut the coffee is really nice on the end though I will say that like like I was saying with the aroma how like roasty that coffee is That's a very nice finish on this beer. It's like a lot of chocolate up front and then a lot of coffee on the end It's nice It's a good beer Considering it's just a straight-up stout. I would like it to be imperial just because there's more body It's more chocolatey than but all things considered. It's nice. It's a very nice beer I like it Modern times. Good job. I'm a fan If you ever do an imperial version, maybe bourbon barrel aged it too, that would be unbelievable So cool, but if you just keep doing this I would like to get my hands on more of it because I enjoy it, but anyway, thanks everyone for checking out this video If you have any ideas, you can just email me brutal battle podcast at gmail.com Also, if you just have any feedback in general, so anyway until next time go ahead yourself an awesome beer