I have a homemade cheese burger tonight. I'd like to say that it's with chips, but it's with a surf 'n' turf tuna salad instead. Though that's mainly because I am saving my calories for a large packet of vanilla fudge and also chocolates for pudding, and besides, I had a crisp sandwich for lunch. I do like a crisp sandwich now and then, so then I save my protein hit of the day for dinner instead.
This Double Tonka Frappe is a Tonka Bean stout produced by Vocation Brewery. At 8% in volume, on the can there was a promise of sticky caramel, with a roasted coffee stout taste and added vanilla flavour from the Tonka Beans. I've never tried Tonka Beans before, some places swear by them for vanilla flavour. I guess I'll find out.
On opening the can this Double Tonka Frappe stout poured almost black in colour. On smell there was certainly roasted coffee, and dark chocolate from the malt. There was also a sweet malted barley aroma with added herbal hops, a sweetness of caramel and a little vanilla.
On taste this deep thick almost gooey stout smothered my tastebuds with flavours of roasted coffee and dark chocolate, the sweetness of sticky caramel enveloped my tastebuds further complemented by the velvety goodness of vanilla, or Tonka Bean in this case.
This Double Tonka Frappe stout was a luxurious treat to my senses. It washed down my surf 'n' turf beef burger and tuna salad a treat, and I saved a little to wash down my bag of vanilla fudge and caramel chocolate pudding too. Cheers and yum.