 Thanks for joining me for this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Brick. Today we're going to do a beer by Moylan's brewing out of Navado, California. This beer in particular was given to me by Kyla Miller and she got it from her sister Danny Miller who if you've been watching all of these Danny Miller had sent in some beer for this as well. So thank you very much to both you Kyla and Danny. Appreciate it a lot. So this is Moylan's and this was a special beer that they put out. This was to celebrate the win of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series of 2014. So not sure how it's going to be at the moment, but this is their Orange and Black Congrats ale. Obviously anyone who knows baseball knows orange and black are the colors of the San Francisco Giants, so it makes sense. This is a American black ale which to other people means black IPA with actually California oranges added to it. Sounds weird, and it's 6% out. Oh, bye-bye. Let's get this going. Very brown as I'm pouring it as you can imagine. Black ale's typically are that way. As you can probably see it looks very very black right there. But when I can look around the edges, it's very much brown. A little bit of a reddish tinge to it. Smell it? Yeah, it's like fresh oranges actually. Oranges with a little bit of like a zest, like an orange zest to it. So a little bit of orange fruit, a lot of orange zest on the nose. There's a little bit of a chocolatey aspect in there. Very slight. A little bit of a roasty note from the malt coming through as well on the nose. It smells really interesting. I just don't know how this is going to play on the palate. Huh? Significantly less body than I was expecting it to have. I was expecting it to have a little bit more, because typically black ale's because they're more on the darker malts. They have a little bit more body. This is very thin body. I definitely get the orange. I get a fleeting moment of the fruit of the orange, but I get a lot of the orange zest to it. I do get that roasty aspect from the malt that I was talking about smelling. I'm wondering when this was fresher, if there was more of a hot presence to it that could have like bolstered the citrus fruit aspect a little bit more. Not sure, but it's actually pretty decent the way it is right now. It's really interesting. I've just never experienced that level of orange zest and orange, a little bit of orange fruit in a beer like this. So it's it's an interesting one. I wouldn't say I love it. Do I like it? Yes, I like it. It's good. I would certainly drink this. Moylan's interesting beer. Kyla and Danny, thank you very much for letting me try this. And I guess I should say congratulations to the Giants. Like you're late, but hey, you did it. And then this beer was created for you. I hope they actually tried some of it. But anyway, everyone, thanks for checking this out and go get yourself an awesome beer.