Miles Davis' Bitches Brew - Dogfish Head Brewery

birchstick

Missouri

4.03/5  rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

2010 vintage. Poured into a Schlafly snifter with Bitches Brew queued up on the stereo.

A - pours a nice dark brown/black color with a solid looking 1 finger, chocolaty head sitting on top of it.

S - nose consists of milk chocolates, some spicy ginger (gesho?), and a little bit of honey...just as the label reads oddly enough

T - Bitches Brew, the album, opens up mysteriously and rhythmically; this beer opens up showing more of its hand with sweet honey mixed in with chocolate malts. These move on to more chocolates through the middle. A little bit of the gesho root adds a nice ginger-esque spicy refreshing flavor, but the chocolate overtakes it on the finish. Nice.

M - luxuriously smooth and full - pretty solid mouthfeel

D - overall, this beer has nice complexity, but I was hoping for a little more pronounced flavors from the honey and gesho. But, like the album, you don't know what's around the next corner, and this beer kept me guessing at times. Cool concept and well executed. Recommended for the experience!

Serving type: bottle

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