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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Tollymore Woods Vanilla Porter as your tour guide

This beer takes you on a walk through a forest of moss covered oaks, Sitting at the northern most foot of the Mourne Mountains.  The appearance of the beer is dark as the bark on one of the damp old growth oak trees, with it's off white to brown head arching it's way over the beer as the cobble stone bridges do over the Shimna River.   In the distance there is a smell of someone baking a sweet vanilla bread over a wood fire, roasty yet sweet.  You can't tell if that's the smell of the air or the smell of the beer, all you know is it smells so good. You take a sip of the beer and go a little further in to the woods, you taste roasted chocolate malt, burnt black malt, that is all mellowed by vanilla, with a finish that is smooth and clean. The beer felt and tasted so good in your mouth that you sip a little more and the forest is so beautiful you walk a little more. All the sudden you are out of the woods and you are out of beer. The forest you just walked through was Tollymore Forest Park of Northern Ireland and your tour guide was my home brew Tollymore Woods a Vanilla Porter.




Brew today, See you tomorrow.
 

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