This Wicked Weed ride has been excellent for me. Really, the biggest drawback that I can see is that the pack only had four beers in it, and there was only one of each kind. It looks like I'll have to pick up another four pack when I go back to my beer distributor so that I may further enjoy these delightful dessert beers.
The color is black. No more notation necessary. The tan head is full of tiny bubbles, and this is the first of this line of beers to leave lacing on the sides. In fact, this is the first to have any significant amount of head with both small and medium bubbles covering the entirety of the top of the beer once the foam has settled. The aroma is cocoa and dankness. While I'm not normally a fan of dank, I am definitely looking forward to this beer. Presentation is excellent.First sip doesn't have any of the dank that I thought I smelled. Instead, it has chocolate bitter sweet above a smoky and somewhat coffee malt. The chocolate is trying diligently to be the primary taste of the beverage, but I think it's failing. The malt is very strong, and this is the beer out of this bunch that, so far, is most like a traditional Imperial Stout. This is much more stoic than its brethren.
Tip-in is a fine grain of hemp woven into a chocolate and coffee with earth surging underneath it. The center brings the hemp further to the front while the chocolate and earth overwhelm the coffee to form the base of the slurry as it goes down the gullet. The finish is a mood change into bitterness with coffee once again surging against a more flowery hemp.
Bottom Line: Not disastrous, but not tremendous.
2.5/5