Midnight Sun Brewtality

( 22oz bottle thanks to AmEricanbrew) Pours black with a tan head and good lacing. Nose of raw wet coffee beans. Taste is syrupy chocolate, very heavy coffee flavor, some barrel and bourbon flavors as well. Finishes creamy. Nice!

Bottle thanks to AmEricanBrew. The smell is very coffee, like Starbucks esspresso, malts, cocoa, and chocolate. The look is dark brown to black with a dark colored head. The taste is malts, roasty, coffee, and good.

Dark brown pour. Loads of coffee in the aroma along with some light cocoa notes. Flavor has a wonderful chocolate covered coffee bean and some good roast bitterness. Great stuff.

bottle thanks to AmEricanBrew. poured almost black with a beige head. aroma was chocolate syrup, coffee, and dark roast. flavor was right on with the nose.

( 22oz bottle, courtesy of AmEricanBrew ) Pours a dark brown body with a small beige head. Aroma of coffee, roasted grain, and toasted bread. Flavor of coffee, light cocoa, and roasted malt.

bottle thanks to americanbrews. black with a cream ehad. nose is coffee, roasted malts and chocolate. nice ont eh palate with a flavor of coffee, roasted malts and slight chocolate.

22 oz. bottle - thanks frank!! pours dark brown and clear with foamy tan head fading quickly; rich aromas of chocolate, caramel and tons of sweet, milky coffee; drinks with a faint alcohol burn and a mind bending amount of sweet coffee; no abrasiveness or over roast from the coffee in any way, but rather an extreme level of sweetness from the lagering; so much so that it results in an almost bourbony flavor; super dry, rich and malty, yet remains quite thin in overall texture; easily one of the top coffee beers I’ve had; wow, just a killer brew and one of my fav midnight sun offerings to date; so glad to hear that a second batch is being brewed this winter!!!!!!

Update 10/16/09: bomber - batch 1; knowing the new batch is almost ready, I cracked this beast without any reservations; forget exactly when released, but this has at least 8 months on it and 4 months since originally tried; not very much age I’d admit, but I couldn’t wait; dense brown, thin tan head; syrupy chocolate, sweet espresso, dark candy malt, almost banana like notes from the booze; this one really goes beyond coffee; such smooth sweetness; cookies, chocolate, vanilla; flavors have slightly chilled making the booze a little more obvious; texture also slightly thinned out; damn good stuff; batch two is out soon :)

Bottle thanks to americanbrew. Dark brown pour with a small head. Aroma is espresso beans, light smoke, burnt malts, slightly ashy. Flavor is coffee, bittersweet chocolate.