Tonight's beer: Grand Teton Coming Home (2012)
Dried/Candied fruits—prunes, figs, raisins; maybe cherries—backed by toast and caramel (that toast is so rich my palate wants to parse it as buttery, but this doesn't seem oxidized or otherwise laden with off-flavors); hints of nuts and dates and toffee. Some bitterness does emerge, eventually: floral and grassy, touches of citrus and pine. Grace notes of vanilla and tobacco. Never really dries out much, but does manage to transition from mostly bitter to bittersweet.
Thick and bready and chewy, a little sticky. Pretty decently carbonated. Coating, but eventually gently drying. Lots of subtlety, at least as far as the 10% ABV payload this beer is carrying.
Very, very nice. I don't know how hops-forward this beer was fresh (though the 75 IBUs on the tag is a small hint) but at this point is' a beautifully mellow barleywine. Intense and complex as heck, nicely integrated and marvelously poised. Supple and subtle and entirely delicious. Drinking something from Grand Teton is definitely at least a little like coming home.
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| Grand Teton Coming Home (2012) |
Dried/Candied fruits—prunes, figs, raisins; maybe cherries—backed by toast and caramel (that toast is so rich my palate wants to parse it as buttery, but this doesn't seem oxidized or otherwise laden with off-flavors); hints of nuts and dates and toffee. Some bitterness does emerge, eventually: floral and grassy, touches of citrus and pine. Grace notes of vanilla and tobacco. Never really dries out much, but does manage to transition from mostly bitter to bittersweet.
Thick and bready and chewy, a little sticky. Pretty decently carbonated. Coating, but eventually gently drying. Lots of subtlety, at least as far as the 10% ABV payload this beer is carrying.
Very, very nice. I don't know how hops-forward this beer was fresh (though the 75 IBUs on the tag is a small hint) but at this point is' a beautifully mellow barleywine. Intense and complex as heck, nicely integrated and marvelously poised. Supple and subtle and entirely delicious. Drinking something from Grand Teton is definitely at least a little like coming home.
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