SweetWater Brewing Dank Tank Ghoulash

My buddy Ed brought me back a bottle of SweetWater Brewing Company Dank Tank Ghoulash from Atlanta. This beer is a “double black double dry hopped double India Pale Ale,” or a beer with a lot of doubles. The beer pours a black color with a lofty and frothy beige-colored head that leaves some lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of chocolate, lemon, pine, spruce, pepper, and molasses. The taste is dry and bitter and is very hop-forward, bringing pine, lemon, and spruce flavors right up to the front of the beer. It finishes with a dark chocolate flavor that has hints of caramel, molasses, and toasted malts. The after taste lets pepper and lemon linger on the tongue. The alcohol content is 8.5% ABV. If you are looking for a beer that is dark and chocolaty and hoppy and bitter at the same time, this is the beer for you. It really presents its dryness, and the slight hint of citrus is quite enjoyable.

SweetWater Dank Tank BSP Quad Ale

Another SweetWater beer I picked up, and read a lot about on BeerNews, was the Dank Tank BSP Quad Ale. The beer pours a dark brown color with a foamy beige head. The aroma is sweet and malty with hints of fig and raisins. The taste is sweet and very smooth with good accents of raisins and fig. I picked up a bit of birch as well, and there is a light hop undertone. On the finish, there is a little bit of chocolate and a slight bit of of burnt toast. The alcohol content 11% ABV. This was an excellent quad and was full of flavors. The raisin and fig was expected, but the chocolate and burnt toast was a nice surprise. I highly recommend trying this beer if you can get your hands on it.