Tonight's beer: Unibroue Don de Dieu
Lots of pale fruits--pears and apples and peaches and apricots--with pale bread and gentle toast right behind. Grassy-floral bitterness emerges after the fruity opening, takes over, carries the beer to a dry, slightly-spicy finish. Distant traces of brandy, maybe other spirits. Some precincts reporting plummy hints in among the fruits.
Medium-light body with adequate if gentle carbonation and a touch of boozy prickle and heat.. Some bready-syrupy stickiness. Dries out softly on the finish, and is surprisingly refreshing.
A very drinkable beer, right in the center of what I'd expect from a Belgian strong pale ale. Intense and complex and well-balanced/integrated. Tons of house yeast character--typical for Unibroue beers--but I like that yeast character. A helluva beer, and (at least around here) like most of Unibroue's beers, trivially easy to find. There is no bad, there.
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| Unibroue Don de Dieu |
Lots of pale fruits--pears and apples and peaches and apricots--with pale bread and gentle toast right behind. Grassy-floral bitterness emerges after the fruity opening, takes over, carries the beer to a dry, slightly-spicy finish. Distant traces of brandy, maybe other spirits. Some precincts reporting plummy hints in among the fruits.
Medium-light body with adequate if gentle carbonation and a touch of boozy prickle and heat.. Some bready-syrupy stickiness. Dries out softly on the finish, and is surprisingly refreshing.
A very drinkable beer, right in the center of what I'd expect from a Belgian strong pale ale. Intense and complex and well-balanced/integrated. Tons of house yeast character--typical for Unibroue beers--but I like that yeast character. A helluva beer, and (at least around here) like most of Unibroue's beers, trivially easy to find. There is no bad, there.
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