Tonight's beer: Hair of the Dog Doggie Claws (2011)
Lots of deep caramel, toasty and rich, with dollops of maple, molasses, vanilla, and maybe whiskey. Peaty-smoky whispers in the distance. Earthy-grassy bitterness threaded in the background, possibly with something floral. Pretty sweet all the way through, but very well-contained and not at all what I'd consider cloying.
Thick and soft, a little dense, softly carbonated. Plenty chewy and distinctly sticky. There's definitely some alcohol presence, here, but the beer is packing an 11% ABV payload, and the heat is pretty subdued, given that.
It's Xmas in June, I guess. This is a *very* nice barleywine, one I wish I could reliably get (without resorting to trades). Intense and complex—staggeringly so; masterfully well-integrated, and the malty leanings are likely from age as much as anything else. Delicious as a sipping beer, probably too strong for anything else.
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| Hair of the Dog Doggie Claws (2011) |
Lots of deep caramel, toasty and rich, with dollops of maple, molasses, vanilla, and maybe whiskey. Peaty-smoky whispers in the distance. Earthy-grassy bitterness threaded in the background, possibly with something floral. Pretty sweet all the way through, but very well-contained and not at all what I'd consider cloying.
Thick and soft, a little dense, softly carbonated. Plenty chewy and distinctly sticky. There's definitely some alcohol presence, here, but the beer is packing an 11% ABV payload, and the heat is pretty subdued, given that.
It's Xmas in June, I guess. This is a *very* nice barleywine, one I wish I could reliably get (without resorting to trades). Intense and complex—staggeringly so; masterfully well-integrated, and the malty leanings are likely from age as much as anything else. Delicious as a sipping beer, probably too strong for anything else.
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