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PAINTED BLACK

Several years ago I was at a conference and we were given two different beers to taste and evaluate. The first was golden in colour and the second dark black. We were tasked with using our taste to describe the malt characters in each beer.

The golden ale had a good malt backbone with bready crackers and biscuit notes. The second dark beer had similar characters but most

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