Cymric Circumspection.

Whoever heard of a Welsh beer? I hadn’t, but I have now. Tonight’s speciality comes from Cardiff, and is called Jack Black Oatmeal Stout. It’s a kind of porter, but what makes it different from other porters of my experience is the liquorice note. Usually it adds a sweet component to the beer, but in Jack Black the liquorice is bitter. That’s surely how it should be, since liquorice is a little bitter by nature.

Jack Black must be a character in some work by Dylan Thomas, since this brew is part of a series celebrating Thomas’s work. Maybe there’s an Under Wood Milk Stout, or even one with a magic ingredient which makes you not go gently into that good night. I think you might need the company of just the right person if you were going to risk that one.