Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Backburner
Buttered toast, not burnt at all. Tons of caramel, with substantial oaken character—mainly vanilla—blending in. Earthy-grassy bitterness rises in middle through to finish, balancing all the sweet, drying the beer out some. Spice flickers past; impressions of dark dried fruits linger around the periphery, with maybe a trace of whiskey.
Bready-chewy and syrupy-sticky, with moderate carbonation. Very drying, mostly from booze, it feels like; the beer isn't hot at all, though. Long-ish finish, tending toward refreshing.
One of the most drinkable barleywines I've had, at least recently. Smooth as hell, with alarmingly little warning of the 9.6% ABV. Also, immensely flavorful—intense and complex and overall astonishingly well-balanced and -integrated. A big-time winner from Southern Tier; it turns out that six or so months in the bottle was about perfect. I should have revisited this sooner, and more often; yum and wow.
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| Southern Tier Backburner |
Buttered toast, not burnt at all. Tons of caramel, with substantial oaken character—mainly vanilla—blending in. Earthy-grassy bitterness rises in middle through to finish, balancing all the sweet, drying the beer out some. Spice flickers past; impressions of dark dried fruits linger around the periphery, with maybe a trace of whiskey.
Bready-chewy and syrupy-sticky, with moderate carbonation. Very drying, mostly from booze, it feels like; the beer isn't hot at all, though. Long-ish finish, tending toward refreshing.
One of the most drinkable barleywines I've had, at least recently. Smooth as hell, with alarmingly little warning of the 9.6% ABV. Also, immensely flavorful—intense and complex and overall astonishingly well-balanced and -integrated. A big-time winner from Southern Tier; it turns out that six or so months in the bottle was about perfect. I should have revisited this sooner, and more often; yum and wow.
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