After a full day working on the chicken run (fence almost completes) and coop (just needs doors and roof shingles) it seemed like a good reason to pop open some special beers: two bourbon barrel aged and two chocolate/coffee porters. Specifically 2009 Abyss Reserve, 2010 Top Sail, 2009 Black Butte Reserve XXI, and our home brewed 2009 chocolate/espresso still porter not stout despite more recipe tweeks. I wasn’t expecting our home brew to compare to the other big beers, but am pleasantly surprised by how it has continued to bottle condition and improve. The carbonation is definitetly off and the color difference next to the others is striking in it’s non-blackness (great description I know)…more tweeking to do in the next batch.
