Tonight's beer: Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Grainstorm
Peppery rye character steps forward, heavily threaded with burnt toast and dark chocolate. Bitterness melded in nicely—citrus, pine, grass, flowers; traces of tropical things like melons. Toward the finish, peat and smoke emerge briefly, as the beer dries out completely and the waves of bitterness consume all.
Surprisingly light-bodied, and explosively carbonated; pretty smooth. Massively drying and refreshing. A little chewy, with some light resinous-syrupy stickiness into a mostly clean and cleansing—almost scrubbing—finish.
A delicious conclusion to Black IPA Day. The lightest of the trio, both in heft and in booze payload, but no slouch by any other criterion (and the light body is its own pleasure). Intense and complex and balanced and integrated and drinkable as fuck: a delight to all applicable senses, disappointing only in that it doesn't last forever.
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| Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Grainstorm |
Peppery rye character steps forward, heavily threaded with burnt toast and dark chocolate. Bitterness melded in nicely—citrus, pine, grass, flowers; traces of tropical things like melons. Toward the finish, peat and smoke emerge briefly, as the beer dries out completely and the waves of bitterness consume all.
Surprisingly light-bodied, and explosively carbonated; pretty smooth. Massively drying and refreshing. A little chewy, with some light resinous-syrupy stickiness into a mostly clean and cleansing—almost scrubbing—finish.
A delicious conclusion to Black IPA Day. The lightest of the trio, both in heft and in booze payload, but no slouch by any other criterion (and the light body is its own pleasure). Intense and complex and balanced and integrated and drinkable as fuck: a delight to all applicable senses, disappointing only in that it doesn't last forever.
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