Tonight's beer: Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
Dark chocolate, backed by coffee/espresso, caramel, burnt fruits (mainly dark fruits like plums and cherries and grapes). Earthy-grassy bitterness around the finish. Flickers and flashes of ash, pear, smoke through the middle, in the interstices. Deeply bittersweet from the start, dries out gradually but thoroughly.
Thick, viscous, dense, heavy; lightly carbonated. Lots of stickiness and chewiness. Gently drying. Really no hint of the 10.5% ABV other than a vague and distant glow. Remarkably smooth.
A delicious and insanely drinkable Big Stout, smooth and supple and impressively graceful (if distinctly imposing). Intense and crazily complex, completely integrated but more poised than balanced. Absolutely what the brewers intended, I think. Oskar Blues consistently make beers that impress the heck out of me, and this is no exception. Yum.
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| Oskar Blues Ten Fidy |
Dark chocolate, backed by coffee/espresso, caramel, burnt fruits (mainly dark fruits like plums and cherries and grapes). Earthy-grassy bitterness around the finish. Flickers and flashes of ash, pear, smoke through the middle, in the interstices. Deeply bittersweet from the start, dries out gradually but thoroughly.
Thick, viscous, dense, heavy; lightly carbonated. Lots of stickiness and chewiness. Gently drying. Really no hint of the 10.5% ABV other than a vague and distant glow. Remarkably smooth.
A delicious and insanely drinkable Big Stout, smooth and supple and impressively graceful (if distinctly imposing). Intense and crazily complex, completely integrated but more poised than balanced. Absolutely what the brewers intended, I think. Oskar Blues consistently make beers that impress the heck out of me, and this is no exception. Yum.
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