Sunday 8th of May 2011 11:35:22 AM

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Back in July 2010, wife Persimmon and I drove son #2 to Parker, Colorado to begin the educational journey realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. Late that year, he and some of his fellow students celebrated a victorious completion of a particularly hard test by indulging in a mutual taste for good beer. They decided on this place, Dad & Dude's which had just opened.

Not a good choice at the time. They only had one beer and apparently, it wasn't that good.

Ahhh but things have changed.

Now they're brewing 6 different types of beer including a delicious red and a drinkable IPA.

But their glory (IF they choose to make it so), their what-could-be-an-award-winning-GABF beer is their Toffee Porter. Unlike anything I have ever had before, this beer is driveway dark in color with a rich, full caramel head and a toffee nose you can smell the moment the beer is set in front of you -- or your companion across the table. It is THAT pungent! And the taste? Beer-lovers, geeks, snobs - I can almost guarantee this beer could easily become your favorite - so much so that you might consider asking Dad & his Dude's to break the law and send you a container or 3 through the mail if you don't live nearby. A rich, full malty taste assaults your palate with each slurp, lays a moment on the tongue only to disappear and re-appear almost immediately and lingers as if to say: "You can't forget me!"

Nope. Don't want to and although I am not a Colorado resident, I am tempted to ask my soon-to-be-doctor-son#2 to break that law and send me all he can as soon as he can.

Before I leave, I'm making another stop here.

My only complaint is that they have a 4-beer rack w/6 beers on tap. If a brewery has 6 beers, let me sample all 6 - don't make me pay twice get beers that aren't brewed on premises. (The owner subsequently stopped by and explained that they had tried to grow to fast and bought the 4-beer rack when they had only 4 and were experimenting fermenting their own yeast. Lost the yeast and lots of bad beer)

Still a small concession for this one, incredible beer.

Do not, beer-lover, miss this place and when you go, re-iterate to waitress and owner alike that Toffee Porter needs to be, MUST be a year-round offering.