Odd Side Mayan Mocha Stout

There’s very few occasions where I would instinctively grab a bottle of something as complex as a dark beer with coffee, chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg and habanero peppers. However, Odd Side Ales has time and again surprised me with some less-than-common additions to their beer.

Since the late 90’s or so, home brewing has been steadily growing popularity. But for whatever reason, it doesn’t seem to attract your average, play-by-the-rules hobbyists. Sure, there are some of us who will spend a good chunk of a Saturday crafting a perfectly balanced American Blonde Ale, but for every one of those types of homebrewers, you’ve got someone putting bacon, vegetables, or even hemp into the fermenter.

Enter Odd Side Ales. Born from homebrewers in an old piano factory on the beach, Odd Side has made an impressively fast entrance to the beer industry, and partly because the beers they produce are startlingly interesting and consistently well balanced.

Sometime last year, I got a chance to try the Ba

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