Half Acre Baume

Baumé
Half Acre Beer Company
Chicago, IL
7.00% ABV

C: Slight light shining through the edge of my plastic tasting cup
H: Dark, almost black in color
N: Burnt Roasted Malt, Smoke, Coffee

Beer Drinker: This was one of the beers that I brought to the tasting. My friend brought it back for me from a Chicago business trip a few months ago. The label is pretty cool--an electric blue of sorts. Chocolate right out of the gate, with a fairly high level of bitterness. A little nutty with some roasted malts tell the middle of the story. Now, some might say listening to what other people say is cheating, so when I overheard "grapefruit hops at the end", well, I wrote it down. For me, though, a little orange citrus may have crept in, but nothing major. The end. I wish I remember drinking my ounce more, so this might not be fair but...
Score: 3.5544

The Ferm: I have heard a lot about Half Acre as a brewery mainly since the Chicago Beer scene seems to be doing pretty good for itself right now. This was my first Half Acre Brew and I was very excited to try it. Sadly it fell sort-a flat. I got a crazy amount of carbonation off the pour and the flavor was strong smoke and coffee. Now I like both flavors, but when they are combined in a combination like this it reminds me of that old lady that drink black coffee and chain smokes an entire pack of ciggs. In fact, that same lady might have slipped some ash into my beer because the smoke was on full attack with burnt roasted coffee coming up quick to kick you while you were left defenseless from the 1st attack. Yep, I bet you think I hated it....well I'm not a real gluten for punishment, but it was ok....JUST OK.
Score: 2.845

Overall: 3.199