 Welcome to this episode of brutal battle beer break. Today. We're going back to cans. I love canned beers This one is by modern times out of San Diego, California It is their beer called black house, which is a stout. So we're gonna check that one out This is one of those things they they don't give you the ABV straight up They just give you oh, no never mind I thought they just gave you the final gravity so you could kind of use that for the home brewers out there But no they do 5.8% alcohol by volume on this stout. Once again, it is black house Let's go ahead and crack this sucker open I'm expecting a lot of like coffee roasty chocolatey blah blah blah, you know, it's a stout. So let's see If it's stout tea There you go, it's You know, it's not as dark as I would think sometimes stouts are like super super dark and thick looking This is a little more kind on the like the medium body the way it looks Pretty brownish around the edges, although on there. I'm sure it just looks like super dark But trust me very brownish around the edges Ooh, yeah Roastiness to it a little faint Some coffee in there Faint chocolatey note. It's not like real pronounced on the chocolatey aspect But Roasty coffee little chocolate enus. It's like milk chocolate. Not like dark chocolate though Little but there is a little bit of that kind of like Hey aspect that I get from some malts and that's coming through in this But it's not very pronounced and people who listen to the podcast know that I'm not a big fan of that kind of Hey aspect coming through in the beer, but this is relatively subdued with that Smells pretty good. It's a pretty light stout I'm not blown away by it, but I get kind of I get those kind of Roasty smoky roast notes to it that The smoky aspect is not like smoke smoke. It's kind of like More the roast actually a little coffee, you know dark dark coffee But it's light on the dark coffee flavor. I don't know Some of that kind of chocolate coming through but it's milk milky chocolate like I said on the nose With my stouts, I like more body to them than this Body's kind of weak it's like light like medium light, you know, so It's not bad. The flavors are pretty decent But it's also in my opinion not like a extremely remarkable coffee or I'm sorry stout in general But you know, I said coffee coffee because I just saw some some coffee information on here But anyway, they usually on these cans you can see have down here kind of the description of what the flavors are supposed to be like So this is coffee Roasty stout. So I did pick up on those. Good job on that They do have coffee in it. They said 75% Ethiopian and 25% Sumatran coffee. So that's interesting There are 40 I be using this so, you know kind of mid Then they have their ingredients, which I like they have two row malt They have kiln coffee flaked barley pale chocolate Munich crystal 60 Roasted barley midnight wheat and oats I'll packed into this beer. So they actually used coffee in the making of it Which is probably why I can taste coffee, but actually using the coffee in there I thought I would have ended up picking up on a lot more Hmm I'm going back cuz I'm trying to see if I Really pick up on that kind of like hey note that I was getting in the nose I I get it even less in the flavor than I got it in the nose And like I said, you know in the nose it was relatively subdued So it's like barely there in the flavor, which I like the fact that it's barely there. So Decent stout not awesome I think there are better stouts out there that people can go for but I wouldn't turn it down somebody gave it to me So that's fine with me. So thank you modern times beer Good beer black house people go ahead and check it out. If you like what you heard easy Drinking stout here. So anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out and go find yourself an awesome beer to have