 It's brutal battle beer break. Thanks for checking this episode out today We're going to be doing something by evil twin evil twin by the way is Not set in one place one of those gypsy brewers that people keep hearing about from time to time So he's kind of all over the place making all sorts of beers The beer of evil twins that I'm going to be trying this time is Imperial biscotti break in the tall pretty pleased with cherry on top, which is basically supposed to be Like a their best imperial biscotti break, which is an imperial porter But with some sour cherry added to it. So I've had this beer before but it's been Well over a year. It's been a long time 11.5% alcohol by volume. So Nothing to be trifled with At least not by yourself All right Check out the color It's pouring relatively thick as I kind of expected like it Super dark as one would expect you got like some nice kind of muddy brown Coloration around the edges, which you're not gonna really be able to see but Trust me. It's dark. I can't see anything through it big surprise It's got decent lacing you can tell 11.5% is probably about right Real viscous sticking to the side of the glass as you swirl I smell a lot, you know, it's really funny because I was Expecting that I would smell a ton of the sour cherry on this And I don't know if I remember smelling it before when I had a long time ago But I get a little bit of that but I get a lot of that kind of chocolate enos that kind of cookie bread-iness kind of like the biscotti as it says So chocolatey like just nice dark malt So cookie-like little buttery-ness to it a little bit of vanilla in there and That you know sour cherry is there, but it's it's like not all that pronounced which I was assuming it really would be It's very harmonious the nose if you will. Let's try it The sour cherries there mainly on the back end of the flavor And it kind of gives you like a little bit of that kind of lingering sourness on your tongue but it kind of feels like the heavy malts and that chocolatey aspect and like the vanilla and the buttery-ness and that cookie Bread-iness is kind of laying a layer down on your tongue first So that you get that sourness, but the sourness is kind of softened by you know What what's in between which is all that malt-iness that kind of sticks to your tongue? Hmm. I'm tasting all the notes that I was getting in the nose and Actually as I'm sipping it a little bit more. I'm getting more of that kind of sour cherry aspect to it But right up front. It's all those like dark malts too. It's really funny because it's like Tons of like the the dark notes like the chocolate and the you know vanilla and the Cookiness and all that right up front and then you get some sourness Which sticks around for a while and then it goes back to all those dark notes once again And then I get that kind of lingering tartness To just finish everything out. It's crazy. So it's kind of like an up-and-down You know ride with this beer very very interesting beer pretty good beer. I like it I will say While the the sour cherry aspect is interesting It is giving it a tad bit of a medicinal quality to me right now But that may very well be because this is on the colder side I'm assuming that as it warms up that kind of you know Chocolatiness is gonna balance that sourness out a little bit more and it's gonna be less kind of cough medicine But still good Nice beer, I like it. I would say I like the regular biscotti break more Because while the sour cherry aspect is properly introduced here and pretty well balanced I just you know, it's just my preference I like to focus more on those like deep dark chocolate aspects and like the cookie and vanilla and all that so For me if I'm gonna get another beer I'd be looking for the regular biscotti break or the doughnut biscotti break, which is a nice one as well But if you like what you heard here, I would not deter anyone from picking this beer up evil twin You typically do good things and in this case you did another good thing. So thank you very much Everybody go ahead go out have yourself a nice beer