Here’s another beer from what may be my favorite Colorado brewery: Grimm Brothers Brewhouse in Loveland. Now, there is another brewery that also may be my favorite (I can’t decide; and why should I?), which is Odd13 of Lafayette. Both breweries brew wonderful beers and have great themes, you see. I can’t get beers from either here in Georgia, but luckily good old Dale Roberts hooks me up all the same.

So, tonight I give you Grimm Brothers The Bleeding Heart Cherry Chocolate Brown Lager. This is a special Valentines release and, from what I understand, only available around Loveland. Curiously, my can has the description PORTER BREWED WITH GRAHAM CRACKER CRUMBS, COCOA NIBS, VAMILLA & MARSHMALLOW on the side. No mention of the cherry, or why a brown lager would be a porter, unless it’s a Baltic porter.

2017 is bringing some big changes to Grimm, most notably, Laura Pilato being promoted to Head Brewer. It’s with this in mind that we decided to change the base beer of The Bleeding Heart for the first time. The first beer that Laura designed and brewed for Grimm was a Brown Lager; we liked the lager idea since we could get all the complexity one looks for in a brown, but also give it a crisp clean finish. To keep with our own history, while embracing the future we are changing the porter base, but going back to the first adjunct, with cherry and chocolate.   

Grimm Brothers The Bleeding Heart Cherry Chocolate Brown Lager has an alcohol content of 5,5% by volume according to Untappd, and 25 IBUs. I don’t see this listed on the can.

Grimm Brothers The Bleeding Heart Cherry Chocolate Brown Lager pours to a dark brownish color with a light tan head and a sinfully delicious roasty toasty nose with hints of toasted marshmallows. Taking a sip, the beer is medium in body with deep roasted notes of coffee and sweet chocolate chip cookies and graham crackers. I get the vanilla/marshmallow flavors right off the bat too. But where’s the cherry? That’s the missing piece for me, though in the finish the dark bittersweet chocolate notes are really turning me on. I’m going to give it 4 stars, if the cherry were there, it might have had 5.

Still, this beer is totally delicious, and I just love the hints of graham cracker in the nose and the palate.

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