Deep Ellum Darkest Hour:
Greetings and salutations fellow beer drinkers.  Today let’s look local for our beer choice for today and once again we look to what is becoming the city of Dallas’ flagship brewery, Deep Ellum Brewery and their limited release beer: Darkest Hour.  This beer, a rye imperial stout, is poured from a tap a midnight black color with a thin coffee colored head of foam that leaves good lacing inside the glass and a nose of coffee with subtle caramel notes.  The beer’s initial taste is very typical with heavy coffee flavors that roll subtly to include some rye notes that aren’t to dissimilar to coffee with whiskey flavors (yeah, I wouldn’t know anything about that *cough* nothing at all) that mellow to a grainy burnt malt flavor on the back end and aftertaste.  Another great dark brew from the gang at Deep Ellum and, like all their other limited release beers, is a tap only beer.  So good friends- at least those of you who are local - hunt down this beer, drink, enjoy and repeat.