Dirty Commie Heathen

Imperial Stout, Unknown Brewing Co. North Carolina, USA 12.4%

Prior to this, Unknown Brewing was pretty much just that to me.  I bought this bottle on the recommendation of the beer specialist at Bestway.
DCH packs quite a punch, with a big layer of semisweet chocolate and a bit of dryness. Cherries made a much more prominent appearance for my second sampling. A pleasant aroma of fruit wafted out when I popped the cork. The body is not fruity, the cherries add more of a dryness, though the second glass, which was much more flat, had a much more wine-like character. The label speaks of bourbon aged oak being used, but I did not detect anything from the wood.
With such a heavy body, and high ABV I think I chose the wrong time to try this bottle.I will try to revisit it in cooler times, for now it was just too much across the board.

As some of you know I was born and lived for a short time in Communist/Socialist Eastern Europe. And while I take most of this Commie bashing light heartedly sometimes it makes me wonder. True, I was there towards the end of the Era and in one of the more open societies, but my experience as child was no different than Western Europe. There was always toys in the toy store and food and candy in the grocery store. The only thing I remember about politics when I was living there was a poster that FIDESZ put up in the late 80s, early 90s. They were the youth democratic party back then.

The Tagline is “Please choose” (we were always a very polite society), the old guys are the Soviet Premier and I think the Hungarian President at one point.