Normally I wouldn't be excited about anything left over in my pint glass after I've finished drinking the beer. There is nothing normal about cask ale though, and this was an above average real ale on so many levels.
The Stumbling Monk on Olive in Capitol Hill is known for its Belgian ales, but once a week they get a cask of something special from one of the local breweries. This week it was a special expression of Elysian Brewing's Dragontooth Stout spiked with a ton of Lighthouse coffee. I mean spiked IN the firkin. If you don't bellieve me, look what was left in the bottom of the glass after I thoroughly enjoyed the liquid contents.
This ebony elixr poured like turkish coffee. Opaque black with brown highlights and a fragrant billowy head that left lace evocative of some stormy, atlantic archipelago scattered about the inside the drinking vessel.
The aroma was bittersweet cocoa, a serious blast of roast coffee, and a little molasses/burnt sugar. Huge mouthfeel with a chewy coffee-brownie quality. Not overly bitter or acrid with an unbelievable balance for such a huge ale.
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