Tonight's beer: Stone/Evil Twin/Stillwater The Perfect Crime
Bread and caramel, with hints of toast and toast and dried/candied fruits—mainly pale fruits like apples and pears (a surprise, given the color). Some spice, but it's mostly subsumed by grassy-floral-piney bitterness. Maybe some distant wisps of smoke and/or pepper.
Very light-bodied, highly-carbonated. Cleansing and scrubbing; drying and refreshing. Finish is short, acute, and very clean.
A pleasant beer, but it comes across like a throttled-back take on Stillwater's Existent: I'm not sure I see what, exactly, Stone and Evil Twin brought to this (Evil Twin's contribution, at least, would likely be more obvious if I'd had any of those beers before, ever). Decently flavorful—pretty intense and pretty complex—and nicely integrated; tilts more to the distinctively hoppy than I've have expected. Practically no smoke presence, for a beer that's advertised as being smoked. Quite drinkable.
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| Stone/Evil Twin/Stillwater The Perfect Crime |
Bread and caramel, with hints of toast and toast and dried/candied fruits—mainly pale fruits like apples and pears (a surprise, given the color). Some spice, but it's mostly subsumed by grassy-floral-piney bitterness. Maybe some distant wisps of smoke and/or pepper.
Very light-bodied, highly-carbonated. Cleansing and scrubbing; drying and refreshing. Finish is short, acute, and very clean.
A pleasant beer, but it comes across like a throttled-back take on Stillwater's Existent: I'm not sure I see what, exactly, Stone and Evil Twin brought to this (Evil Twin's contribution, at least, would likely be more obvious if I'd had any of those beers before, ever). Decently flavorful—pretty intense and pretty complex—and nicely integrated; tilts more to the distinctively hoppy than I've have expected. Practically no smoke presence, for a beer that's advertised as being smoked. Quite drinkable.
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