Deep Ellum Pollenator:
Hello one and all and welcome back to what turns out to be another beer review!  Who knew?!  Today we look at another rare tapping from the good people over at Deep Ellum Brewery.  Ah Deep Ellum, what memories I have of it (the neighborhood, not the brewery); with concerts and drinking Italian sodas at Café Brazil pretty much all throughout high school, this little area of Dallas introduced me to the concept of local music (and how awesome it can be) as well an eclectic art scene that seemed to migrate up from towns like Austin and New Orleans that lined the streets on Friday and Saturday nights made this a unique scene to my young self.  After a down decade this little slice of what makes Dallas unique is trying to make a come back and Deep Ellum Brewery has been moved to the forefront of that resurgence and rightfully so.  Today’s beer is their Dopplebock style beer, Pollenator which serves as their 1st anniversary beer.  The beer, poured from a tap, is a dark ruby brown color with a creamed coffee colored head that is thick and leaves some lacing while it exhibit’s a nose of sweet notes of honey and fruit.  The beer’s initial taste is a mellow sweet brown sugar flavor that blooms to a English Brown Ale flavor of roasted malts and a touch of hops on the mid tongue and all three combine to a nice medley of flavors create a mellow back end and after taste.   As far Anniversary beers this one rates near the top and allows another positive tick mark on Deep Ellum wall o’beer.  Find this one and enjoy my local beer fans, it is worth it, trust me.