Tonight will be sealed with a homebrew: this Flavored Stout tries to imitate the taste profile of carrot cake. The beer pours translucent, deep mahogany with a surprising burgundy tint. The color is not exactly what I anticipated, I thought it would follow the cloudy, dark brown path of the other beers of the same bigger batch. No problem though, works fine as it is. The carbonation is decent, nothing like our chocolate banana stout of yesterday although the amount of priming sugar was equal. A light fawn, silky head grows less than one finger tall and melts soon to a hair-thin lace ring on the top. The scent offers carrot; not carrot cake but grated carrot. Not vegetal though but rather fruity. Cardamom steps forward from the row of spices, followed by less brave cinnamon and remote ginger. Several of the carrot cake components are there, it's a good start. The taste is a tad dry and slightly roasty. Carrot is subtle but still not cakey. Again fruity, like carrot juice. Cardamom shrinks in intensity and lingers in the background together with distant cinnamon and a whisper of ginger. There's also a suggestion of vanilla looming within the palate which obviously rounds the profile modestly. Licorice and bitter molasses can also be found. Not very pastry-like but manages to portray several of the ingredients of carrot cake in a balanced way. The body is light to light-medium. The beer ends with dark malt, some licorice and a small amendment of bitter syrup. Carrot more or less disappears in the finish, perhaps a barely depictable juicy twist is left behind. The aftertaste pushes carrots in a blender and swears hastily to a healthy life. The mouthfeel is medium-light, juicy, a tad dry but not drying. It's effervescent in the mouth albeit not frothy in the glass. This is an interesting experiment: difficult components work seamlessly together but fail to form one harmonious medley. As if a collection of separate elements. Still better than I expected. We need to rethink the recipe a bit to make the wheels roll perfectly in synchrony.