 For this episode of brutal battle beer break. We are doing a beer from heart hardy wood Parkcraft brewery out of Richmond, Virginia This beer was actually given to me by a one Matt Van Zant if anyone has Listened to the podcast itself. He's been on a few of the decosodes before and I think maybe one other one or two Other episodes that weren't decosodes, but anyway He gave me this beer a group of craft beer lovers and I we did a secret Santa And this is one of the beers that he gave me very very excited to try it I've heard good things, but I will be the judge of that on this episode of brew about beer break Anyway, it is a gingerbread stout by hardy wood It is nine point What nine point two percent alcohol and it's 55 IB use international bitter units Obviously you see a gingerbread man on there and it says gingerbread stout. So pretty straightforward there quarkin cage This is in their reserve series. So, you know, when you do something you call reserve. You have to make sure it's very posh and cool looking so what better way to do it than with a quark and cage Nice pop to it Don't you never want to actually, you know Do like people do in the movies with quarks and try and like pop it out because you can hit someone in the eye You can injure someone some other way you can break glass or Light bulb just stuff. You don't want to do just me giving you a little caution So nine point two percent alcohol Gonna be pretty formidable as far as the viscosity goes and alcohol presence most likely, but who knows Make sure I turn it so everyone can continue to look at that cool little gingerbread man Coloration is probably about what you would assume very very dark. It's got a nice tan head to it It's around the edges pretty brown ish Okay definitely smelling ginger to that and Smelling pretty molasses see Chocolatey in there a little bit Wow, but the ginger is in the forefront and it's just invader nostrils, but in a good way. It's like nice strong ginger smells nice honey sent to it With that molasses as well chocolate smells good. Oh Oh my gosh Okay The first note I get is this chocolatey note and then it gives way to a very thick like molasses Note as well And then I'm getting like the honey and it kind of finishes with the ginger the ginger is a real quick kind of Flavor peak in your mouth and then it comes down really fast For that reason the flavor is very well rounded mmm, I Have had beers before where Ginger's in it and the ginger's overpowering and it lingers so much with this beer ginger is not really lingering and I like that the mouth feel is pretty Pretty present pretty kind of heavy mouth feel to it Which is really nice because it kind of gives you the idea of like a gingerbread man You know like you usually think that gingerbread is like really kind of thick and dark and rich and The viscosity of this along with the flavor just gives you the whole portrayal of you know what you assume gingerbread is So some interesting stuff about this beer It's made with wildfire wildflower honey if I could talk From bearer farms and fresh baby ginger from Castlemont farm So cool that they're doing like local ingredients down there in Richmond, Virginia So it is an imperial milk stout with fresh local ginger and honey. It says I Like this typically not a huge gingerbread person, but this does taste like a nice ginger spice to gingerbread with great chocolatey and molasses he notes to it and I Enjoy this and I think that my wife is really going to enjoy this We actually got it from Matt just today and as soon as I Unearthed what was in the box that he gave me for the secret Santa She saw this and she was like can we drink that tonight and I was like why not? It's around that time getting close to Christmas. It's cold outside Perfect time for something like this Hardywood you did a hell of a job on this Matt Van Zandt. Thank you so much I really appreciate it. This beer is very good anyone who's lucky enough to be able to get their hands on this I definitely would recommend it Gingerbread stout by Hardywood as a full name Hardywood craft park our park craft brewery, but gingerbread stout by Hardywood Killer so thank you everyone for watching check out the podcast of course send me emails brutal battle podcast at gmail.com And all that other cool stuff. I'm on the Facebook's the Twitter's I'm at brutal battle So do all that stuff, but everyone most importantly, please go get yourself a beer and relax