 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today. I'm gonna do a beer by springhouse brewing they're out of Conestoga, Pennsylvania and It is a robust porter that has coffee and coconut added and then it's been aged in Jim Beam bourbon barrels So it is called blood turning black. They do have a base beer called blood turning black That just comes out and it's the robust Coffee coconut porter and but then this is a special version that has the bourbon barrel aging to it That's part of their what they call skull Chapter, which is kind of like a beer society which some breweries do most famously the brewery out of California, so Other people are branching out and doing these things cork and cage takes a little bit of time And My god, this thing is in there. You guys can watch me struggle with the cork Sometimes you just got to wiggle these bitches to get them and spring house Make me break my hand. I feel like I'm starting to get it, but now it's making my hands wet There we go here. It's coming Damn. Well, that was an ordeal. I'm hoping it tastes really good. So it's worth the work Whoo, all right pouring it looks pretty dark as you would assume from a robust porter Yep, as you can see very dark nice tan head to it as well Let's see what smells like. Oh Okay, I can immediately get some of that coconut because coconuts such a distinct smell I get a lot of bourbon-y sweetness in there a little, you know caramel some vanilla to it I Definitely get some of the coffee, but the coffee's kind of in the bottom of all those other stacked smells and There's a dark chocolate note in there as well, which I think everything I just said encapsulates the smell very very well. It smells very good. Oh Wow There's a lot smoother than I thought it was gonna be. I thought it might be a tad bit more rough The coconut is threw out The high ABV. Oh, actually the ABV. What is the ABV? I'm assuming it's high because it's bourbon-barrel age, but someone had said it was 13 percent Yep, 13.9 so almost 14 percent Jesus Does not taste like that. It tastes like 10 Tastes like 10 So there's like a nice kind of bitter coffee aspect to it There's like bitter dark chocolate in there the coconuts throughout like I said You get the bourbon as well like the sweetness from that like I was saying on the nose like the vanilla aspect as well as There's actually some like burb Oki character on there caramel Lot of coconut though. I'm pretty surprised Actually, I shouldn't be because I'd had the base beer like two months ago and there was a lot of nice coconut to it So this is a really nice beer Finishes really well good throughout all the flavors are pretty harmonious and the coconuts at a great level which a lot of beers that use coconut In my opinion don't use enough coconut. So it's just like barely there. This really lets you know. It's there Super awesome beer. Thank you so much for making this spring house And I can't wait to see what else you put out in your skull chapter Hopefully everyone else wants to see that as well. Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out and go have yourself an awesome beer