DIRTY LITTLE FREAK

Dirty Little Freak

Duclaw Brewing Co.  Baltimore, MD / 5.8% ABV

I was sitting at home on a cold, snowy Sunday afternoon and thought it was a perfect time to have a drink.  The ground outside was white and the temperature was at a cold 24 degrees.  I figured a nice bourbon or a scotch would be in order because of the weather outside. In my mind I also entertained the thought of having a short glass of 18 year old Jameson Irish Whiskey.  My first move was to open the refrigerator door to explore all of my possibilities and there it was the perfect beer for the occasion.   It was a bottle of Dirty Little Freak.

From experience, Duclaw Brewing Company makes good beer.  They make a very nice chocolate & peanut butter stout named Sweet Baby Jesus, a blueberry citrus wheat called Funk and a really tasty Blonde Ale named Bare Ass Blonde Ale.  I have to say that Declaw does a great job with infusing different flavors in their brewing process without losing the actual taste of the beer.  When I saw their Dirty Little Freak offering I had to dive in.

THE REVIEW

 

Sight:  As you open the dark brown bottle and pour this Little Freak of a beer you will see a delicious dark amber color followed by a thin tan head.  I don’t know about all of you, but when I pour a beer I like to tip the glass for the first half of the pour and then straighten it out for the last half.  This prevents a “head overload” all over the table.  As this beer settles, it maintains a slight foamy head in and on the side of the glass.

Aroma:  At first whiff, you definitely get the aroma of sweet chocolate.  I closed my eyes and thought I had just opened a Hersey’s candy bar.  Behind the chocolate aroma you can catch the roasted hops smell along with a very slight hint of coconut and caramel.  My mind immediately went to a warm tropical island, which would be a great place to be on a cold snowy day.

Taste:  As I came back to reality I took my first sip of Dirty Little Freak.  Delicious!  I am not a big fan of super sweet beers but this was just perfect.  The chocolate flavor was perfectly balanced throughout the entire drink.  Along with the consistent chocolate flavor you will taste an initial back note of caramel and then a secondary back note of coconut.  As you breathe through your nose you will taste all of these flavors combined.   This beer was very smooth going down with very little after bite.

If you like beer and chocolate and who doesn’t, I recommend that you try Dirty Little Freak. It’s a smooth beer that holds it chocolate flavor throughout your drink and then teases you with some caramel and coconut back notes.  Personally I would pair this up with a Fuente Double Chateau cigar and a round of PGA golf on TV.  This chocolate freakish beer is brewed by Baltimore, Maryland based DuClaw Brewing Company.  They also brew beers name Guilty Filthy Soul, Naked Fish and their most famous beer Sweet Baby Jesus.  You can pick up a Dirty Little Freak at Wegman’s in Wilkes-Barre.

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5= Outstanding

4= Very Good

3= Good

2=Fair

1=Skunk