 Welcome back for this episode of brutal battle beer break We're going to be trying a beer from local option beer worker. That's the full name. Most people just know him as local option But the interesting thing about this is we just started finding local option in Maryland maybe about Little less than a year ago, and I was like, oh they've made it all the way down from Chicago because Chicago Illinois is originally Where they're from but on this beer it actually says brewed and bottled by pub dog brewing company out of West Mr. Maryland, so they're having its Brewed and bottled contract with pub dog in West. Mr. Maryland, so that's why it's here I'd be interested to see if there's actually any difference between the batches that come out But I may never know that anyway the beer we have here is called morning wood by local option It is seven point three percent alcohol by volume, and it is an oak aged coffee amber which Coffee oak With an amber Sounds good to me. So let's get this going Take a look at it smell it all that good stuff. So there we go So you can see the oh you can see the label very kind of macabre Label I mean their their logo in general macabre anyway So this is kind of fat guy with a skullhead blown his brains out If that's what morning means to you, okay local option, but let us judge the beer Looks like it's a little bit hazy nice amber coloration to it a little orange-ish and Oh my gosh very it's very caramel-y and vanilla-y as soon as I smelled it Oh my gosh and coffee it is really there. It's like caramel coffee Vanilla Smells really good, but the um the coffee's uh like a nice roasty version You know sometimes we'll talk about having like a green coffee smell, which is like a very fresh young coffee But this is definitely like a roasted coffee scent Smelling a little marshmallow II to go along with all those other notes Really interesting robust nose makes me think of you know breakfast s'mores, you know I have a cup of coffee have some s'mores And then have this beer, but I haven't tasted it yet. So maybe I won't like it Wow Vanilla caramel-y coffee everything I said for the nose it's there in the flavor with a nice light light Medium light body You know it's got a little bit more to it than you would think for ambers and that's actually probably coming from That kind of like woody aspect that you're getting from the oak, you know It adds kind of like a more like a tannic quality to it Hmm that is good. That is tasty Hmm along with that coffee I get a lot of those kind of caramel-y Notes that are just like very very nice in this beer the oak The coffee it goes so well together if you gave this to somebody and just told them After the fact after they had it that oh, that's just you know It's an amber ale most people be like oh an amber because you hear amber and people are just like oh amber boring This is certainly a way that local option found a way to spice up the ambers. So Very well done local option. Very cool. Let me see if there's anything else on here Ale is brewed with only the finest ingredients of malt hops yeast water time and temperature I guess that's what you need The coffee that they use is dark matter coffee. I guess dark matter is the name of the company. So That's awesome. Um, I recommend this beer I actually highly recommend this beer for anyone who enjoys, you know caramel oak coffee vanilla all those things. Um Wow, I like it a lot. Um, I thought I would like it, but I like it a lot more than I thought I would so Home run there. Thank you everyone for checking this out And like I've said before go ahead and if you want me to do any specific beers Give me rating and review on itunes. Just search brutal battle Then send me an email at brutal battle podcast at gmail.com Let me know that you gave me the rating and review and give me a list of beers and I'll go out and get one I'll do one of these episodes and I'll give you a shout out So thank you so much and in the meantime go get yourself an awesome beer to drink