The return of the murky weather calls for a return to dark beer, export India Porter. Not sure where it fits on the spectrum but first impressions make me think of black ipa. Lucious pour with lots of foamy chocolate brown foam, sitting on a silky black body. Aroma of black chocolate, roasted espresso with some brown sugar. There is what feels like faint traces of sweet hops, but it is merged with dried fruits and molasses. The two profiles phase in and out making it difficult to distinguish. Mouthfeel is smooth, mildly foamy with a tiny amount of carbonation, which somehow lessens further with every sip. Taste is peculiar, porter profiles meet ipa notes. Chocolate and coffee up front with a little ashen cinder in the back and then with sweet fruit following in the form of the dried currants and raisins. Brown sugar rounds and shifts everything back to the porter notes. This feels like a decent porter with one peculiar flavour in the mix, rather than an entirely different style.