Tonight's beer: Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Harvest Dance
Floral-grassy-citrussy bitterness, backed by pepper; caramel and toast, filling underneath. Juicy pale fruits slipping past, almost in the background, with strong flickers of spice and pine. Some tartness arises through the finish, as the beer dries up and puckers out.
Light-bodied, especially for 9.5% ABV, and explosively carbonated. Drying and cleansing and immensely refreshing, with pretty much no warning of the boozy payload. Just a vague stickiness into the aftertaste, lingering warmly.
I've had this beer before, but I don't remember it being *this* good. It would be reasonable to expect me to catch on, eventually, to the fact Boulevard makes awesome beers, but they keep astonishing me. Intense and complex and balanced and integrated and delicious from start to finish in every dimension. As a fan of wheatwines and an admirer of Boulevard, I guess I was wearing the bull's eye tonight.
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| Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Harvest Dance |
Floral-grassy-citrussy bitterness, backed by pepper; caramel and toast, filling underneath. Juicy pale fruits slipping past, almost in the background, with strong flickers of spice and pine. Some tartness arises through the finish, as the beer dries up and puckers out.
Light-bodied, especially for 9.5% ABV, and explosively carbonated. Drying and cleansing and immensely refreshing, with pretty much no warning of the boozy payload. Just a vague stickiness into the aftertaste, lingering warmly.
I've had this beer before, but I don't remember it being *this* good. It would be reasonable to expect me to catch on, eventually, to the fact Boulevard makes awesome beers, but they keep astonishing me. Intense and complex and balanced and integrated and delicious from start to finish in every dimension. As a fan of wheatwines and an admirer of Boulevard, I guess I was wearing the bull's eye tonight.
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