Tonight's beer: Dogfish Head Olde School (2009)
Round caramel-toast bread, mixed with nutty-toffee, with wet-paper right behind. Distinctly like port, with tannic impressions rolling past. Something whiskey-ish lurking in the background. Earthy-grassy bitterness waves from a distant hillock, then walks away. Finish is long-lasting, and wraps up with a flicker of vanilla.
Round and smooth, with some flickering fine carbonation. Chewy and sticky and dense. Surprisingly little heat for a 15% ABV beer with as much whiskey (and port) flavor as this one has. More filling and satisfying than anything else.
A massive beer, not doubt; tons of complex and subtle flavors, all tightly-woven and well-integrated. Alcohol isn't sneaky, exactly, but it's carried very gracefully. About as big a beer as I'd want to drink a whole bottle of. It probably spend as long in the bottle as I'd want to let it sit—there's some oxidation happening here that isn't sitting entirely right on my palate (but which has at least as good a chance of being me as the beer).
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| Dogfish Head Olde School (2009) |
Round caramel-toast bread, mixed with nutty-toffee, with wet-paper right behind. Distinctly like port, with tannic impressions rolling past. Something whiskey-ish lurking in the background. Earthy-grassy bitterness waves from a distant hillock, then walks away. Finish is long-lasting, and wraps up with a flicker of vanilla.
Round and smooth, with some flickering fine carbonation. Chewy and sticky and dense. Surprisingly little heat for a 15% ABV beer with as much whiskey (and port) flavor as this one has. More filling and satisfying than anything else.
A massive beer, not doubt; tons of complex and subtle flavors, all tightly-woven and well-integrated. Alcohol isn't sneaky, exactly, but it's carried very gracefully. About as big a beer as I'd want to drink a whole bottle of. It probably spend as long in the bottle as I'd want to let it sit—there's some oxidation happening here that isn't sitting entirely right on my palate (but which has at least as good a chance of being me as the beer).
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