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About The Beer
Country: Australia
Brewery: Hawkers Beer
Style: Imperial/Double Stout
Format: 440ml Can
ABV: 13.1%
As dark, deep, and ominous as an impossibly quiet nighttime forest, this Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout is a brooding beast prowling in the shadows. Stay sharp.
On the artwork: Popularised by Washington Irving's novel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman has apparently been a spooky story around the world since the middle ages. For the sake of pop-culture, let's talk about the Sleepy Hollow variety; based in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the Headless Horseman is thought to be a soldier who lost his head (obviously) by American cannon fire during the Revolutionary War. In [the incredibly short version of] the story, Ichabod Crane finds himself terrorised by an ominous cloaked rider (sans head, of course) in the night and disappears, although the novel leaves the disappearance of Crane open-ended. Was it a malevolent ghost in search of his obliterated noggin, or was it a local prankster just scaring the milk out of his tea? Either way, the legend is classic and charmingly haunty.
Enjoy now or cellar it for a rainy day. Even better, treat yourself to this one and grab a second for future you. Future you will be stoked.