Tonight's beer: Weyerbacher Blasphemy
Lots of dried/candied fruits—mostly dark, like cherries and grapes and figs and plums; pale fruits like pears and apples and bananas (and maybe peaches) looming—smeared thickly over caramel and toast and toffee. Vanilla and spices emerge through the middle, as the beer evolves in the direction of dry. Earthy-grassy-floral bitterness flickers around the edges, sticks around into the aftertaste. Threads of dark tartness in the undercurrents.
Just on the light side of medium-bodied, with lots of carbonation. Pretty smooth and pretty clean, with just a touch of syrupy stickiness around the finish. Maybe a vague and gentle boozy glow, but considering the 11.8% ABV practically non-existent.
A delicious and dangerously drinkable quadrupel: devious and seductive, supple and subtle and seductive. Intense, and amazingly complex; wonderfully well-integrated and balanced. I haven't had this beer fresh, but it's abundantly clear the year or so this spent in the bottle did no harm (to say the least). The bourbon-barrel character plays well, here. Impressive.
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| Weyerbacher Blasphemy |
Lots of dried/candied fruits—mostly dark, like cherries and grapes and figs and plums; pale fruits like pears and apples and bananas (and maybe peaches) looming—smeared thickly over caramel and toast and toffee. Vanilla and spices emerge through the middle, as the beer evolves in the direction of dry. Earthy-grassy-floral bitterness flickers around the edges, sticks around into the aftertaste. Threads of dark tartness in the undercurrents.
Just on the light side of medium-bodied, with lots of carbonation. Pretty smooth and pretty clean, with just a touch of syrupy stickiness around the finish. Maybe a vague and gentle boozy glow, but considering the 11.8% ABV practically non-existent.
A delicious and dangerously drinkable quadrupel: devious and seductive, supple and subtle and seductive. Intense, and amazingly complex; wonderfully well-integrated and balanced. I haven't had this beer fresh, but it's abundantly clear the year or so this spent in the bottle did no harm (to say the least). The bourbon-barrel character plays well, here. Impressive.
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