North Coast Brother Thelonious:
Hello all and welcome to another beer, another day and today, we get to look at not only a bottle of beer, but a big bottle with a cork!  So what beer do we have to look at today?  Well gentle readers it’s Brother Thelonious, a dark Belgian strong ale from North Coast Brewing and is a part of a charitable partnership with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.  We all love charitable beers here because they make us feel good for buying the beer and then even better for having consumed it- mainly ‘cause the means we can buy another one hence continuing to support the cause - but that is all dependent on the taste of the beer.  This beer pours a dark brown color with a decently thick and foamy head that leaves good lacing and a nose of sweet dark fruits and roasted malts.  The beer‘s nose moves the taste palate as being noticeable on the front end of the sip while the sweet dark fruits do sour a bit on the mid tongue and the back end taste is dominated by a creamy taste with a strange lemon-like taste underneath it all.   A smooth aftertaste with only a touch dryness being noticeable and really not much carbonation is noticeable despite the initial experience the head on the beer.  Not a bad little big bottle of beer it doesn’t break any ground but it is a very enjoyable drinking experience.