 thank you for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm gonna be doing a beer by Gilgamesh Brewing they're out of Salem, Oregon and the beer I have today for them is Vader it is a 6.5% ABV Cascadian dark ale with coffee added for those of you who don't know Cascadian dark ales also black IPA's anyway so Vader yes and it looks like it has stars and everything could this be referring to Star Wars Vader most likely all right let's get this in the glass see what it's looking like tasting like very brown is expecting maybe it would be a little bit more dark Cascadian dark ales tend to be a little darker than this one is this one's very like kind of it looks dark brown but when you hold it up to the light it's pretty light brown honestly with a little tinge of a reddishness to it a lot of the times Cascadian dark ales or black IPA's will be significantly darker because of the dark malts that they use so smell a lot of hops on it to be honest it's actually the first thing I get very citrusy a little bit of a floral aspect to it and as I keep smelling I get that coffee coming through but I'm also getting a chocolatey aspect from the darker malt just really interesting like hoppy chocolatey citrus coffee it's real odd because you just keep you can't just I don't know like they just kind of like you smell those different smells in an order but the order changes every time I smell it's like on some sniffs it's a coffee first on other sniffs it's the citrusy hoppiness first on others it's like the chocolate really interesting intricate there's a significant bitterness on the end for what I was expecting which is probably from like that kind of dark tannic kind of coffee note to it something like bitter coffee very roasty heavy roast type coffee going on in there there's a little bit of that citrusy hoppiness coming through not really getting oh if I look for it I can get like the slightest tinge of that chocolatey note but really not much of anything there in that aspect it's kind of odd to be honest it's very bitter it's a lot more bitter than I thought it would be and it's just bitter like coffee that's not good you know so not really a fan of this one gotta be honest I was hoping for a lot out of this but maybe it's an instance where it gets better as it warms the bitterness is just not so good sometimes bitterness is fine for me if it's backed up by a bunch of other flavors but in this instance it's it's not backed up by enough because all the other flavors are very much subdued in comparison to that bitterness but anyway Gilgamesh brewing sorry this is your only bear I've ever had I didn't really care for it but you know maybe I can find some of your stuff in the future and I'm sure there's something good out there that I like anyway thanks everyone for checking out and go get yourself an awesome beer