Tonight's beer: DuClaw X-5
Bitter up front and on top; an almost aspirin-like astringence almost overwhelms undertones of lemony/citrus, grass, flowers, and perfume. Pale bready sweetness struggles to make itself known. Sour/funky impressions lurkling in the background, emerge more fully-formed toward the finish. Starts chewed-aspirin bitter and lemon-juicy; the juice dries out, and the beer turns a bit more puckering, through the finish. Aspirin emerges again on the aftertaste.
Light-bodied, with lots of prickle—it's hard to tell the proportions of carbonation and alcohol, here. Puckering, quenchinc, pretty refreshing. ALmost gritty on the finish; maybe pulpy is a better descriptor.
A kinda strange take on an American IPA; among other things, I'm not sure how I feel about the total absence of pine int eh hops character. Bitterness is too dominant to call the beer balanced, and too one-dimensional (aspirin dipped in lemon juice) to call it complex. Plenty intense, and enough off the beaten path to be worth trying; still, I'm more than a little underwhelmed. Oh, well.
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| DuClaw X-5 |
Bitter up front and on top; an almost aspirin-like astringence almost overwhelms undertones of lemony/citrus, grass, flowers, and perfume. Pale bready sweetness struggles to make itself known. Sour/funky impressions lurkling in the background, emerge more fully-formed toward the finish. Starts chewed-aspirin bitter and lemon-juicy; the juice dries out, and the beer turns a bit more puckering, through the finish. Aspirin emerges again on the aftertaste.
Light-bodied, with lots of prickle—it's hard to tell the proportions of carbonation and alcohol, here. Puckering, quenchinc, pretty refreshing. ALmost gritty on the finish; maybe pulpy is a better descriptor.
A kinda strange take on an American IPA; among other things, I'm not sure how I feel about the total absence of pine int eh hops character. Bitterness is too dominant to call the beer balanced, and too one-dimensional (aspirin dipped in lemon juice) to call it complex. Plenty intense, and enough off the beaten path to be worth trying; still, I'm more than a little underwhelmed. Oh, well.
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