Brunn Mabelie

The most potent beer of them all, a strong 'black' beer flavoured with yarrow, locally harvested meadowsweet, woodruff, angelica and dates. Thick, dense and creamy, pale yellow-beige, slowly opening head on a very dark chestnut brown beer, indeed as good as black but still with mahogany glow throughout. Aroma of cocoa dust, burnt toast, hard caramel, bitter chocolate, coffee filters, toasted walnuts, liquorice, dry clay, black tea, dried woodruff, dates, wet leather, green kitchen herbs and dried flowers but nothing that overpowers the rest. Dried dates and raisins in the onset, baked banana sweetness, softish carb with supple, full, oily mouthfeel; caramelly, walnutty, bitter-chocolatey and brown-bready malt core flavoured with lots of herbal effects, liquorice-like even if no liquorice was used (could be the woodruff in combination with the roasted malts), aniseed-like (probably the angelica) and tea-like (the meadowsweet), all carried onwards by a firm, toasted coffeeish bitter tail, gently heated by whisky-like alcohol.