 Thank you for joining me for this episode of brutal battle beer break. I want to do something That I hope catches on quite a bit Want to talk about night caps, you know I don't know if people remember back in like 50s 60s probably before that who used to do night caps where before they're gonna Go to bed. They have a drink and relax and then go to bed so you see it in older movies all the time, but I Just took a shower. I'm in my pajamas, and I'm like Oh, this is a nightcap. I'm having a cap and hopefully this is a good nightcap. I've heard good things. This is white chocolate It's by the brewery out of Placentia, California. They just put orange County on the label, but it's Placentia specifically at sixteen point six percent alcohol by volume, and it is a Bourbon barrel each wheat wine with cocoa nibs and vanilla beans So there you have it white chocolate if you're familiar with the brewery and how they do their labels a lot of nerve very very similar So just different variations on it. Hopefully this isn't a total pain in the ass to get off I know some people were a little upset this time around because they used to do the waxing on this and some of their others and They've gone away. They do this kind of like shrink-wrapped ordeal Don't really matter to me that much. I'm fine with whatever I just want to make sure that this tastes good Pour that out Doing in high class You know nightcaps are high class. So I figured let's go high class This is my class from the savor crap beer and food event. So shout out to savor. It was an awesome event Um looks a little bit darker than I would assume a wheat wine to be but that's probably because of the Bourbon barrel aging We'll take on some of the you know caramel-y coloration of the oak the smoked or the scorched oak so Little orange-ish Ooh super aromatic See here's the thing I don't think I can smell that it's a wheat wine necessarily I guess if I really really try but the first thing it hits me big time are cocoa nibs It's like crazy cocoa nibs in there and then you have some nice vanilla beans in there But that's right under very very present caramel aspect. That's coming from the Bourbon barrel Smell some nice bourbon-y sweetness in there And you get a little bit of like an oakiness Smells so good. It smells so good feel a slight bit of a burn going down Coco nibs get a lot of the cocoa. I get a good amount of the vanilla It's actually coming off a little marshmallow wheat, which obviously is really good I'm assuming that's between the vanilla and the oak characteristics but this is Hmm nice bourbon sweetness in the flavor just like it was in the nose Yeah, I think this would qualify as a nice nightcap type beer high in ABB definitely a sipper 16.6% which I mean it kind of When you get me over like 12 You know unless it's something like 20 some I'm kind of like yeah, it's high So I'm guessing it tastes like 16.6 But a little bit of a burn that just kind of sits in the back of the throat not a bad thing It's just kind of warming and nice. This would be great on a cold night. It's not right now, but you know hey Anyway, thanks everyone for checking this out if you have the means ever To get some white chocolate check it out because this is nice probably the best we wine I've ever had I know there aren't a ton of we wines out there But the fact of the bourbon barrel aging the vanilla beans and the cocoa nibs really kick it up a whole lot I know a lot of people aren't huge on weed lines in general, but this is a really good way to make people get into it So anyway, thanks to the brewery. Thanks everyone for checking this out and go have yourself an awesome beer Have a nightcap