Tonight's beer: Blue Mountain Barrel House Local Species
Dry to start wit, backed by earthy-grassy bitterness and a flinty/spiky, mineral/metallic backbone. Some bready-caramel-toasty background impressions, with some vanilla flickering around the edges. Spice struggles to emerge as the beer dries out, pretty substantially, through the finish.
Light-bodied, with lots of carbonation, and a light touch fo stickiness. Gently drying and very refreshing. Flinty-mineral/steely-metallic bristle through the finish. Scrubbing and cleansing.
An interesting approach to a farmhouse ale, strongly reminiscent of a biere de garde; it's aged in bourbon barrels but the character from that is so subtle as to be just at a luminal threshold. More complex than intense; balanced and integrated. Reminds me—in a good way, and in addition to reminding me of a biere de garde—of the stuff I've had from Stillwater Artisanal. Nice, and it improves as it goes; that could be a temperature thing, or it could be my palate adjusting to the beer. The first I've had from these guys, and I'm intrigued and impressed.
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| Blue Mountain Barrel House Local Species |
Dry to start wit, backed by earthy-grassy bitterness and a flinty/spiky, mineral/metallic backbone. Some bready-caramel-toasty background impressions, with some vanilla flickering around the edges. Spice struggles to emerge as the beer dries out, pretty substantially, through the finish.
Light-bodied, with lots of carbonation, and a light touch fo stickiness. Gently drying and very refreshing. Flinty-mineral/steely-metallic bristle through the finish. Scrubbing and cleansing.
An interesting approach to a farmhouse ale, strongly reminiscent of a biere de garde; it's aged in bourbon barrels but the character from that is so subtle as to be just at a luminal threshold. More complex than intense; balanced and integrated. Reminds me—in a good way, and in addition to reminding me of a biere de garde—of the stuff I've had from Stillwater Artisanal. Nice, and it improves as it goes; that could be a temperature thing, or it could be my palate adjusting to the beer. The first I've had from these guys, and I'm intrigued and impressed.
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