Tonight's beer: Boulder Killer Penguin (2012)
Caramel-toasty bread, spiked and threaded with dried and candied fruits—cherries, apples, plums, currants, figs, et al,—hints of baking spices, nuts, vanilla; maybe a trace of dark spirits such as whickey, rum, brandy. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges through the middle and hangs on. The beer starts kinda sweet, but evolves to something like poise and eventually dries out, mostly.
Bready-thick and chewy, kinda soft; plenty of syrupy stickiness into and beyond the finish. Gently carbonated; a little drying; satisfying. A vague kiss of booze, very subdued for 10% ABV.
A delicious barleywine, definitely well-served (to say the least) by the year or so it spent in the bottle. I've never had it fresh, but the couple times I've had it with a year-ish on it, it's been awesome. Intense and complex, nicely integrated if a bit of a malt-bomb. Drinkable as hell, with remarkably little alcohol presence.
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| Boulder Killer Penguin (2012) |
Caramel-toasty bread, spiked and threaded with dried and candied fruits—cherries, apples, plums, currants, figs, et al,—hints of baking spices, nuts, vanilla; maybe a trace of dark spirits such as whickey, rum, brandy. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges through the middle and hangs on. The beer starts kinda sweet, but evolves to something like poise and eventually dries out, mostly.
Bready-thick and chewy, kinda soft; plenty of syrupy stickiness into and beyond the finish. Gently carbonated; a little drying; satisfying. A vague kiss of booze, very subdued for 10% ABV.
A delicious barleywine, definitely well-served (to say the least) by the year or so it spent in the bottle. I've never had it fresh, but the couple times I've had it with a year-ish on it, it's been awesome. Intense and complex, nicely integrated if a bit of a malt-bomb. Drinkable as hell, with remarkably little alcohol presence.
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