Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura Dark Dawn Stout

Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura Dark Dawn Stout
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Dexter, MI

The fourth beer in my gift sixer...a re-review.

Memory is a strange thing. The first time I had this beer was at the brewery in one of the most unassuming towns on Earth. The Son of Jeffries was in a festive mood and some local, who seemed to have been there a few long minutes "sampling", was imbibing. Seeing as I was only driving a few more miles I thought that I should as well. The immediate response to this cold dessert is to drink it down and so I did. Most stouts have a beefy character to them and you feel it right away. With this Belgian candy cocktail of chocolate and sweet yeast you feel it ten minutes later and it comes in a wave of sugary dreamlike visions. I had a dreamquest that day myself. It involved species beyond our own with fanglike appendages and a thirst for blood. It tore itself upon me and then took to the town of savages and devoured them all. I could hear their screams drown out the cricketed night and then the being came to lay itself beside me in silence. I've seen it a few times since and it takes something each time. This stout is no elixir against it but rathera portal for its return. It's worth the horror to uncap this merangue of cocoa and spill out my spine once again.

-Wörtwurst