Kannah Creek Brewing Company The Demise of Ivan 2016

**Aroma:** “Sweet and fruity, with vanilla, herbal soap, mild earthy hops, and cedar. Light roasted malt, with some chocolate and just a hint of roast. Fruity and phenolic, with dark cherry, citrus, and esters of stone fruit and dried cherry. Getting some grassy, almost vegetal aroma, with smoke and plastic.” **Flavor:** “Tastes like more of a brown ale than a stout, although the alcohol is too big for a brown ale. Roasty dark chocolate, caramel malt, mild roast, and light bitterness. Strongly phenolic, with smoke and pepper, and maybe a touch of chlorophenol. It’s sweet and strong, and the spicy alcohol is quite warming, which carries through the finish. Moderate hops flavors, with vanilla, spruce, and herb. Herbal spruce lingers for a long time.” **Overall:** “It’s a dark take on the winter-warmer style. It’s quite warming, and the alcohol level lends itself to gentle sipping. It has a nice roast and dark chocolate flavor but has an overly bitter, dry, astringent finish. The phenols are overdone, and it’s difficult to find the base beer here.”

**Aroma:** “A very mild aroma, with a hint of chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malt. Some fruity yeast esters and dry cocoa with a touch of alcohol heat.” **Flavor:** “Relatively smooth blend of strong roast and vanilla. Chocolate resides underneath, along with some tannic character to tie things together. Nice malt richness. Some oak character. Dark toffee flavors and some iron minerality as it warms.” **Overall:** “Enjoyable with nice chocolate notes and vanilla, but perhaps needed to spend more time in the barrel to pick up more barrel character.”

**Aroma:** “Woody, earthy, and roasty, all fairly balanced against one another. Some very dark fruit esters underneath as well as some coffee tones, slight chocolate, and roasted-malt character.” **Flavor:** “The ester fruitiness dominates this beer and a subtle smoky phenolic character works okay with the roasted malt. Relatively tart malt profile, maybe even cranberry tart. The earthiness and wood tannins support the tartness once your palate acclimates. A slight vanilla sweetness shows up mid-palate and lingers. Some roast and chocolate in the back. Nice sweetness with a good finish and slight warmth.” **Overall:** “ Creative take on the BA imperial stout style but in a really fun way. The unique level of tartness somehow works with everything else. The fruit character is interesting.”