Tonight's beer: Lancaster Winter Warmer
Big and malty, laden with toast and caramel and toffee. Some flickers of smoke and vanilla, baking spices—mostly cloves and allspice—and dark dried/candied fruits. Earthy-grassy bitterness dancing around the periphery. Pretty sweet to start; dries out gradually and gently.
Thick and chewy and just a little dense with kinda scattered carbonation. Some stickiness into and beyond the finish, more bready than syrupy. Dim hints of a distinctly bourbon-ish spiritous character, more of a soft and diffuse glow than anything else.
A very taste and very smooth big beer, subtle and surprisingly graceful. Pretty intense, with lots of complexities (if subtle ones) that demand close attention—and reward it richly; heavily tilted to the malts, but holds together nicely and is clearly exactly what the brewers intended. I picked this up because I remembered liking it a lot; I still do. Yum.
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| Lancaster Winter Warmer |
Big and malty, laden with toast and caramel and toffee. Some flickers of smoke and vanilla, baking spices—mostly cloves and allspice—and dark dried/candied fruits. Earthy-grassy bitterness dancing around the periphery. Pretty sweet to start; dries out gradually and gently.
Thick and chewy and just a little dense with kinda scattered carbonation. Some stickiness into and beyond the finish, more bready than syrupy. Dim hints of a distinctly bourbon-ish spiritous character, more of a soft and diffuse glow than anything else.
A very taste and very smooth big beer, subtle and surprisingly graceful. Pretty intense, with lots of complexities (if subtle ones) that demand close attention—and reward it richly; heavily tilted to the malts, but holds together nicely and is clearly exactly what the brewers intended. I picked this up because I remembered liking it a lot; I still do. Yum.
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