More Brown Than Black IPA:
Good morrow all, and welcome to a beer day with traces of the magic number.  Wait, what?  Yes, three, that magical number (literally) is the number of brewers in this beer and makes an English major smile.  So why is 3 the magic number?  It occurs in tons of places in our everyday world: 3 parts to the atom, Earth is the third planet from the sun, triple deities or trinity in world religion (Holy Trinity, Three Jewels of Buddhism, Three Goddess of Wicca, Three Abrahamic religions),  3 witches in “Macbeth”, 3 Musketeers Bears, Blind Mice, Pigs and, lastly, the Divine Comedy is in three parts.  Okay, now that we have established what makes 3 so magical, lets look at the beer.  More Brown Than Black IPA is a collaborative beer between The Alchemist, Ninkasi and Stone breweries and is a strong IPA that is a blend of IPA and a dark beer.  The beer pours smoothly but puts out a thick creamy head that sticks around through the whole beer consumption and leaves lacing all around the inside of the glass.  The nose is very strong of hops and grapefruit which is normal for good IPAs that I’ve encountered so far this year.  The taste is high on the sourness and hops with a touch of mellow creaminess that one would associate with a stout and a mellow back-end of grapefruit and coffee (it works, trust me).  So this is one of the better collaborative brews I’ve had…okay it’s actually the best so far and it was a great find.  If you’re into IPA’s I strongly suggest giving this one a shot if you come across it, I