Tonight's beer: Firestone Walker XV
Dark bread, chocolate, caramel, and vanilla, all woven into some dense and obscene tapestry, with overtones of whiskey (primarily but not necessarily bourbon). Separate impressions and threads of butter, earth, peat, and smoke; maybe a flicker of coffee. Dim traces of fruit—some, dark and dried/candied; some, tannic and almost vinous. Manages to dry out a bit, but there is a lot of sweet, here.
Light-bodied for the heft (12.5% ABV); roughly dominated by some serious boozy heat; decently carbonated. Lots of syrupy stickiness into a very long finish. Drying, warming, and satisfying.
A great beer to sip one's way through: astonishingly complex, massively intense, and impressively well-integrated (clearly it did well with some extra time in the bottle and would likely do well with more). Probably too much heat to be drinkable, but entirely pleasant. Much more together than the bottle I had a few months ago. Impressive, and worth the wait. Yummy.
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| Firestone Walker XV |
Dark bread, chocolate, caramel, and vanilla, all woven into some dense and obscene tapestry, with overtones of whiskey (primarily but not necessarily bourbon). Separate impressions and threads of butter, earth, peat, and smoke; maybe a flicker of coffee. Dim traces of fruit—some, dark and dried/candied; some, tannic and almost vinous. Manages to dry out a bit, but there is a lot of sweet, here.
Light-bodied for the heft (12.5% ABV); roughly dominated by some serious boozy heat; decently carbonated. Lots of syrupy stickiness into a very long finish. Drying, warming, and satisfying.
A great beer to sip one's way through: astonishingly complex, massively intense, and impressively well-integrated (clearly it did well with some extra time in the bottle and would likely do well with more). Probably too much heat to be drinkable, but entirely pleasant. Much more together than the bottle I had a few months ago. Impressive, and worth the wait. Yummy.
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