Off Color Brewing - Scourge

Belgian Style Imperial Stout. Scourge is a fermentation study to explore and better understand how our isolated native yeasts harvested from Michigan blueberry skins respond to different styles and wort makeups. Expect a brash, frontal assault of dark cocoa powder, freshly roasted coffee and baked roadside pies tempered by the alluring, summer flowers and blueberry nectar from our native yeasts. French Kiln Coffee malt and classic British chocolate malt couple with the fermentation-derived blueberry juice aromas, reminiscent of natural processed Ethiopian coffees, to create a ‘Blueberry Mocha’ amalgam. Mid-palate notes of peach, Tellicherry black pepper and velvety Gardenias succumb to a full bodied and fudgey, but dry, roasty finish. This dichotomy is balanced by the warming alcohols indicative of its Russian Imperial Stout/Belgian Strong Dark ale hybrid parentage before fading into the inky, war-strewn blackness of an Abbey felled during the Summer of the Late Rose