 For this episode of brutal battle beer break. I'm going to be doing a American black ale which would usually indicate to me something like a black IPA or as people call it Cascadian dark ale it's by indeed brewing out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and It's called midnight rider And anything I've had from indeed Which has been maybe four beers now. This will be my fourth one all in cans. You know, I love it when they're in cans So Let's go ahead and oh, I might as well show you yes midnight rider. There's a little glare from the light, but The night rider It's got like a bear with like this extendable monocle for whatever reason, but I'm down with it. It's cool. It's cool Let's taste this sucker Like the pop of cans It's nice Pouring pretty dark looks Pretty dark. It's got a nice Tanish head to it as you can see you can't see through it as I was pouring I was seeing like a you know, like kind of a cola type Coloration to it because I can see through it slightly Mmm. Oh smells Actually very resinous So that would indicate to me. It's it is very much a black IPA But there's some nice caramel emuls Little roasty caramel emuls to back up that resin in us It smells like it's gonna be a very nice marriage between like those roasted malts and like hoppy citrusy made a little piney note of Hoppiness Smells really good. I like the balance at least on the nose. I'm hoping it holds up with the taste okay Getting a lot more of the malt as a on the first sip The malt kind of like comes in on the end It's got a little bit of a kind of like an ashy finish to it like roasty ashy finish Which is not bad in the beginning. I'm getting some hops to it But it's a little more downplay than what I'm getting out of the nose I'm getting a little bit more of like a piney-ness to it The mouth feel is more than I thought it would be It's coming through with a decent amount of like coffee notes on the finish as well um Kind of the middle on this I do feel like the malt is kind of taking over a little bit more than I would want But then again, this is not an extremely fresh can I know It's one I've had for a little bit So it may be my fault that the hops have kind of died down after all Information on it's a six point five percent alcohol by volume. It says it's 80 I be used So most likely what happened is that it's died down a bit. Yeah, actually I can tell you right now That it was canned in March of this year, so it's probably mostly my fault But for having been canned then the roast and the coffee notes are actually not bad Not really getting a ton of the hops but in the nose I get a ton of hops So I'd really like to taste this fresh Sorry indeed brewing my bad. So a many many many months old midnight rider not bad if you're looking for something a little closer to like a Porter with a little extra hops to it maybe but if you're looking for the black IPA get it fresh I'm assuming it's a lot better. Sorry about that. Stay tuned next time and thanks for tuning in