 Thanks for checking out this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. Today I have a beer by Nincasi Brewing out of Eugene, Oregon, and tis the season for seasonal beers, and this year is a seasonal beer by them. It is called Slayer. It is 7.2% alcohol by volume, if I could get that right, and it's a alt beer. I think they say double dark alt ale on here, but as you can see, there's Santa Claus, all the Slayer Mariness going on, and alt beers are not a style that a lot of people know much about because they're not brewed a whole lot, but alts are ales. Actually, the alt is named for top fermentation, but this beer, when it's brewed, is done more at moderate temperatures, but then when it's cooled, it's cooled at a much cooler, and fermented, I'm sorry. When it's cooled and fermented, it's done at a cooler level than typically ales are done, which is supposed to give it more of like a crisp flavor and mouth feel, as opposed to your typical ales, so let's see about this, typically a multi-year style as well. Nice brown in coloration. You can kind of see through it. It looks kind of akin to like a Scotch ale as well, but a little less red. It's more of like a straight up brownish. So, give it a swirl on the sniff. Oh, OK, I do get a decent amount of like a hay characteristic coming out of it. It's a little bit fruity. There's a little bit of like a raisin-y note in there, which is smelling pretty good. Smells very, it does smell very crisp. There's a little bit of a molasses type of nose to it, which is smelling nice. A little bit of like a butterscotch on the very back end of it. And there is a kind of nondescript fruitiness in there as well. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's like some faint cherry notes, but it smells good. I'm tasting what I was smelling pretty much, although in the taste, I'm actually getting a little bit of a caramel-y note. I was saying molasses on the nose, more of like a caramel on the flavor. And there's actually a little bit of vanilla going along with that, getting that hay aspect as well, getting that kind of fruitiness, a little cherry-ish, a little bit of raisin to it as well. Definitely crisp, a lot crisper than you would assume an ale would be. So it's nice. It's a nice sipping beer. And with all the seasonals out there, when I go seasonal, typically I want to go like a stout, although it's not really like seasonal, but like winter warmers, pumpkin ales, all that kind of stuff that's out around this time. Not so much interested. Give me an alt. I'm down with it. So thanks so much. And in Kasi, this is a nice beer. And everyone else, thanks for checking this out. If there's any particular beer you want to see me try on this or on the regular podcast, go ahead and let me know. BrutalBattlePodcast at gmail.com. Whatever you want to say, get to type it. Anyway, go have yourself an awesome beer.