 For this episode of brutal battle beer break. I'm going to be trying a special release beer by Terrapin beer company out of Athens, Georgia if you remember I had some episodes ago the The one the Imperial pumpkin pie porter was also special release had the same type of label and was also wax dipped like this one Is which I hate the wax dipped. It's kind of a bitch to deal with But I understand why they do it they dip it so that they make sure you know There's no room for air to get in so whatever. I understand also. It makes it look nice. It makes it look super special People a lot of people believe how it makes it look so nice. I could do without but you know sale of it Anyway, hopefully this will be a really nice beer. It's there It's a variation on their moohoo milk chocolate stout, which I typically have enjoyed I also had the variation of the white chocolate moohoo milk chocolate stout before Not on the show or anything, but it was quite good very surprising especially considering I don't like white chocolate typically, so I was very surprised by that This is a variation different one. It is a the moohoo kiyoto I'm assuming that's how you say it. Some people might say moohoo chateau. I think it's moohoo kiyoto it's the chocolate espresso milk stout and You can see there. It's 6.1% alcohol by volume Like I said, Terrapin beer company out of Athens, Georgia so obviously I'm expecting to get a whole lot of lactose and some chocolate notes and the espresso that they say is in there, so I Did before recording here take some of the wax off so it's easier to get off So I cheated a little bit just a little bit Let's go ahead and pour this bad boy I'm assuming it's going to be very dark obviously You know, it's a stout typical for stouts You guess you can see the bottle a little bit. Oh nice big head when I poured it very tan Very tan head. You can't see anything through it. It's just dark dark dark Basically what I expected Whoo. Yeah Milk chocolate and espresso is basically what it does smell like. I mean, I'd assume that's what it smells like if it's smelling like anything else There's probably a problem. Oh But it's like it's green coffee. It's not like extremely roasty coffee It's like young green coffee notes coming up and that's kind of what I get hit with second It's kind of like lactose green coffee milk chocolate It smells really nice and as I keep sniffing it I feel like that green coffee just gets stronger and stronger and stronger Which is smelling nice because I do like coffee and I like coffee flavor in my stouts. Oh Okay definitely getting it. Oh Wow Real creamy in the mouth feel because of that lactose It's a little bit less of a mouth feel and I thought I thought it'd be a little bit heavier But it's actually coming in pretty nice like medium mouth feel for a stout Definitely getting the coffee like first thing when I'm tasting it and like I was saying getting that kind of creaminess from the lactose in it Hmm and the chocolate, you know the milk chocolate's in there It's kind of sandwiched though. It's kind of like in the middle and the The coffee kind of takes over at the end It's like coffee in the beginning then it's kind of the lactose and the chocolate and then it's coffee at the end It's more because you know coffee is more of like a lingering flavor anyway Hmm I Like the I really like the lactose in there the creaminess adds a whole lot to it The espresso is quite nice. I do think that I like this a little bit more than the regular Mouhou, but I don't like it as much as the white chocolate Mouhou That white chocolate Mouhou is very very interesting if you can find that find a way to get it I mean, it's not like in season at the moment, but you might be able to find someone who could trade who's holding on to a bottle So do that this one. I also would recommend. It's very very interesting Like I said before 6.1% alcohol It's made with olive and Sinclair chocolate That's a chocolate company and it's also made with jittery Joe's coffee Makes me interested to know what jittery Joe's coffee might taste like on its own not in a beer I've had times before where I've tried the actual coffee that's gone into a beer And it's just been like on the coffee. It's not so good, but in the beer. It's great Perfect example being Troeg's java head stout. I don't know exactly what coffee it's brewed with But I remember I bought some at Troeg's and my wife and I brewed it up and we're like, I don't really like that coffee It's not so good, but works great in the java head stout. So hey Anyway, um, yeah, the Mouhou Kyoto, I would recommend it. See if you can get yourself a bottle very nice I'm gonna sip on the rest of this tonight and I eat a pork belly taco. Be jealous