It all started in the summer of 2018 during a trip to Jordan, where cardamom coffee was being brewed around every street corner. I enjoyed that coffee so much that it didn't take long for an idea to take shape, and much like how other breweries were inspired by Mexican hot-chocolate so was I by Jordanian cardamom coffee, which is why I wanted to brew a beer in that style. Just thinking of the coffee itself, it was clear that my beer had to be a roasty stout with a decently creamy body that was a bit on the sweet side. Having already brewed coffee beer with some of my "Darkest Days" batches, I knew I would be adding the beans directly to the fermenter, but what I didn't want was for this new beer to be too similar to the other one and having never brewed a spiced holiday beer before, I figured this could be the one. I then started the long and tedious process of researching ingredients that would play well together in the right amounts, and then mindfully sourced them from the right places by talking to the right people, from chocolatiers to coffee roasters. What resulted was a beer that will always serve as a reminder of my time in Jordan, of the friends I made there, the music we listened to, the experiences we shared and the coffee we drank.