 Thanks for checking out this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. Today I'm going to be doing another Westbrook offering, Westbrook out of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. So today we have a, it's basically a Schwartz beer style by them, it's a black rye lager and it is called Dark Helmet. As you can see it actually is a reference to Spaceballs, the movie Spaceballs which is a reference to Star Wars and it's actually pretty funny because it has some stuff on the side. All I see is the thing that made the Schwartz be with you, which I'll read the whole thing after I give it a try, but 6% alcohol by volume, so let's give it a try. Black rye lager, here we go. Obviously it's going to be dark in coloration, it's getting a nice pour on there, alright. So you can see it, it's got a nice kind of tan head to it, obviously it's very very dark as you can see, I can't really see much through it, it's got more of a, of a coloration like a stouter or porter, not just like a black lager, so darker than I thought it would be honestly, I thought it would be a little more translucent. So anyway let me give it a sniff. It definitely has that smell like lager yeast typically does, it's got a little bit of a chocolatey nose to it that you get with like a black lager Schwartz beer style from time to time. Sometimes I tend to get like a licorice-y aspects out of that but I'm not getting any out of this, I'm getting a little bit though of like a honey note in this as well and I get a little bit of that rye which is kind of like a spice factor to it. So let me give it a shot, tastes a lot of the rye in the mouth, decent amount of that kind of chocolatey aspect to it and the finish is a little bit ashy which I found the Schwartz beers do a lot of the time, have kind of like an ashy note to the finish. But that chocolatey aspect is significantly more than I thought it would be, it's leaving a little bit bitter on the finish, more bitter than I was expecting, definitely tastes lager yeasty, it's a very lager type finish, very kind of crisp and light the way it's finishing but it is more bitter than I was expecting. Having a little bit of an issue with that bitterness and I think that the rye is kind of amping the bitterness up a little bit because of that spice aspect but I think that this is still pretty cold, I think as that warms up that's going to kind of like come down a little bit in its intensity because when something's colder you're getting, you'll get more you know bitterness to it and as it warms up that bitterness will kind of come down because the other flavors in there will kind of rise because when a liquid is cold it makes a lot of flavors kind of clam up so you get the more bitter flavors that become dominant. So pretty good though, I've typically been on Schwartz beers but this is probably one of the better ones I've had because of those kind of chocolatey aspects and I do like the rye in there that kind of spice aspect is kind of nice. So Westbrook did a good job. So let me read your the text on here. Dark helmet is a German style black lager or Schwartz beer brewed with 10 percent malt of rye. Chocolate and caroffa malt give the beer its dark color and ludicrously smooth roasty flavor. May the Schwartz be with you which is hilarious because in spaceballs they call the force the Schwartz and they say may the Schwartz be with you. So very clever marketing on this I like it. Westbrook thank you so much everybody watching thank you and go get yourself an awesome beer.