 Yes, it's another brutal battle beer break and as I said before I would be having another 10 barrel beer on the show And here we have it. We have a 10 barrel beer 10 barrel brewing company is out of Bend, Oregon For anyone who didn't last watch the episode where I reviewed apocalypse IPA Which was a good IPA and I will say that it as it warmed up. It got even better So this is their sinister Black ale now sinister is not spelled the way you typically would think it is. It's like sinister store instead of a E toward the end. There's an O. So don't know what the reason for that is Got home from work Got some sausages cooking for dinner in the back And I figure what better time to have some beer than when you're cooking, you know It's it's nice to just kind of while you're cooking relax a little bit stand around sip on a nice beer And I'm hoping this is that nice beer. I do want to thank Dawn bowling my mother-in-law who is an awesome mother-in-law for Picking this beer up for me as well as the apocalypse IPA and some others when she was out in Oregon recently And I want to thank my sister-in-law Emily bowling for helping to pick out some of these awesome beers So let's go ahead and give this a try like I said, it's a black ale I'm assuming a lot of places say black ale when they say that they mean like a black IPA Or as some people can call a Cascadian dark ale So I'm assuming that's what it is. It might not be what that is. We'll find out I'm kind of hoping that's what it is because you know, I like hops. So Well, first, let me go ahead and show you the label. You can see sinister black ale by ten barrel all right, and It's looking dark as you would assume and it's called a black ale So it's pretty dark, but you can kind of see around the edges. It's pretty You probably can't see through there, but man just a little bit There's some brown around the edges, especially down here You can kind of see it towards the bottom of the glass some brown a little reddish brown You can see there not a ton of head to it So be interested to see what if that means anything looks like it's definitely pretty malty, but I'm expecting probably a decent amount of hops As well. Oh, man. It smells very malty We'll say that There's coffee in there There's a good deal of coffee. There's there is some hops in there Smells a tad bit weedy for some reason Mmm, and I also get a little bit of caramel note to go along with that coffee in a little tad tad bit of like a sweet chocolatey nose note Let me go ahead and try it Okay, right off the bat the mouth feel significantly less than I was Assuming would be on this beer for what it looks like. It looks like you're gonna have like a big rich mouth feel It's a lot thinner than I expected Not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, I was just a little bit confusing When I first taste it, I'm getting hops up front and then that gives way to a little bit of Chocolatiness in the finish on the malt Yeah, definitely hops it first, but they're not extremely strong hop. It's not like they're Fully citrusy. They're just kind of like grassy a little floral, but kind of subdued because of the malt behind it Getting a little bit of like that chocolatiness. It's kind of like a milk chocolatiness to it For some reason it's tasting a little bit like a lagerie on the finish Don't know why It's interesting not quite sure I'm really feeling this beer a whole lot I was expecting a lot more hops on it, but It's not a bad beer. It's a decent beer It's definitely drinkable and it's I believe 5.6 5.7% alcohol by volume. So it's definitely an easy to drink beer. It's not really high in alcohol Mmm, I don't know. It's just the malt isn't real Predominant and the hops aren't real predominant either. So I don't know. They're both a little bit weak It's a very I can drink and it's actually giving me a little bit of like a sourish finish to it Like maybe that that kind of sourish finish with that you get with a little bit of like lactose involved Anyway, let me read what what information is on here. This confused beer came from an even more confused brewer Okay, that's probably I'm confused about it a German style Schwartz beer fermented with ale yeast Which gives it a dark color with an easy drinking flavor profile if you're confused then this is a perfect get Gateway into the dark side So I I can understand, you know why I felt the way I did about it Definitely a confusing beer when you look at it and you smell it and then you taste it But like I was saying, you know, it said that it's it's an easy Transitioned into dark beers. So it truly is, you know, it's kind of like an in-between But I'd say it's decent. It's worth checking out what I really seek this beer out Probably not you're probably here in the sausage is really going right now making me hungry Actually, this would probably go really well with some sausage because it's more of like a neutral flavor With a decent amount of malt that would showcase. I'm having a sweet Italian sausage So the sweetness would be really good with the with the malts in this Anyway, um, yeah, like I said, I I don't think I'd really seek this beer out But would I drink it if somebody gave it to me? Yeah, I definitely would it's an easy drinking beer And I can see where a lot of people would enjoy it and I see Instances where it's it's one to drink. So anyway, thank you everyone for Joining me for this episode Don bowling Emily bowling. Thank you once again. Sorry. This wasn't the most amazing beer I think the apocalypse IPA was much better and it was a very nice beer and I had a great time finishing that bottle off Anyway, thank you everyone so much stick around for the next one