Every year around this time two great companies in Kansas City come together to create something special. Something known as chocolate ale. They don't make a ton of it and once it hits the market it flies off the shelves.
Which is why Chris bought several bottles this week. I decided tonight, after getting home from work, that Friday, February 6th was the perfect day to open up the first bottle.
I know, I know, I should have had a frosty mug but I didn't want to wait for that.
I was thirsty. The odd combination of chocolate in beer is just as good as I remember it being last year. I do believe the brewmaster and the chocolatier achieved their goal of "harmonizing the interplay of chocolate and malt" (dang I wish I would have come up with that line).
If there is a better way to start the weekend that sipping on some chocolate ale I don't know what it is. Oh, and we're having pizza for supper while we watch this past week's episode of Master Chef Junior. As my dad used to say "it's a hot time in the old town tonight".
Great photo. The sun coming through the ale and touching the foam is lovely. As if that wasn't enough, your write up made me want some chocolate ale - now I just have to figure out where to find some!
Posted by: Caroline | 02/07/2015 at 09:22 AM
It's like that commercial where people wonder who ever decided to eat things like mushrooms and who decided to try and pop corn kernels. Who in the world would have thought of chocolate ale?? I assume by the wired cork it is fizzy? Yet another reason to visit Kansas methinks. Who knew??
Posted by: Leslie J. Moran | 02/07/2015 at 09:40 AM
Sounds pretty good to me, but what really caught my eye, is the packaging. Especially the wire cage being gold. You know, you must save those things in your "mixed media" supplies, right? I know I do.
Posted by: barbara | 02/07/2015 at 10:21 AM