It's as sideways as I am after having had it. |
Nose from the bottle is smokey with oak and hickory as well as a little bit of maltyness. Color is a deep oak brown (ruby in the light) with a dissipating beige head. Nose from the glass is much the same as the bottle, it smells overwhelmingly like a smoked brisket but with a little bit of fruitiness on the back end. On first sip, peaty as hell is right! It is so bitter and peaty and smokey! This is not for the faint of heart, it is a savage beer. First it smacks you in the face with the peat. For those of you who don't know, peat tastes like when you get a truck bed full of black mulch and you dig your hand into the middle where it's really wet and then smell it. condense that smell, mix it with topsoil, and then age it for 25 years and that's peat. Then it moves to an intense smoked oak chip flavor, finishes with a touch of fruitiness, and then has a smoke aftertaste but more of a hickory than an oak. There is an alcohol essence all of the way through, it kind of sets the tone for everything. I think I can best describe this beer as such: it is the experience of eating a smoked brisket while smoking a deep, deep maduro cigar in your backyard after you got done with a hard days work of re-mulching all of the plant beds around your property, condensed and liquefied. If you don't know that feeling of accomplishment, you cannot possibly understand this beer.
I need a house. I don't mean that I need some place to live, that's not a problem for me. I mean I need a property that I own, live on, and take care of myself. Not just any property though, it needs to be at least 1/3 woods with a year long running creek going through it, big enough for me to put a barn or a large shop on it. A place where I am not shackled by close quarters living. Where I can build and collect anything I want with impunity. Where if I up and decide I want livestock, I can do that. And if I decide I want meat, I can walk into the backyard with an AK-47 and make that happen too (an inadvisable tool for euthanizing livestock, but you get the idea). I hope I can make that happen if South Carolina, someplace where I'm not so far out that there is no place to go to and I can own some rental property's in town. I want a place where I can bring all of the troubled souls I befriend that the rest of the world can't stand, and just hang out and talk about Gods truth. I want a place where I can brew beer made from barley I grew and fermented with yeast I cultivated in lab in an underground bunker I built. Damn if I haven't always wanted to build an underground bunker. I would use it mostly as a beer cellar (or disguise it as that). but I'm sure I would use it for so much more. I figure I could store emergency equipment and rations to service the local community, government be damned. I'm not some doomsday preper or anything, I'm just fascinated by underground bunkers. I saw an Imperial Japanese one In Okinawa. It was almost completely built with Okinawan slave labor. You could still see the tool marks on the bare rock parts of the walls. The commanders of the Japanese defense, Mitsuru Ushijima and Isamu Cho, committed traditional Suppuku in those deep, musty tunnels. The other officers held grenades to their chests, they actually have a mock up of the holes in the walls in there. They got it kind of wrong, but it's kind of a tourist trap anyway (not to say it's not cool or that that you should not go if you go to Okinawa, you absolutely should). This certainly took a morbid turn, but such is my profession. I could not see dying by my own hand, that is unfathomable to me. What have you really accomplished by killing yourself? There is so much more you could do. Whatever message you have sent will soon be forgotten, and if you believe in a hereafter (as I do) you face damnation. I suppose for them they believed they would inhabit a star island granted to them by the decedent of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, Emperor Hirohito, the marine biologist and mickey mouse fan (not to discredit him, he was a cool dude). By the way, He was an essential figure in ending the war in Asia, but whether or not he was involved with starting the war is subject to debate.
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