Tonight's beer: Big Sky Olde Bluehair (2012)
Lots of toast and caramel and vanilla, hints of dark fruits—figs and plums, mostly—and nits and toffee, flickers of peat and smoke. Grassy-floral-earthy bitterness manages a stalemate if never quite achieving balance. Dries out gradually but pretty thoroughly.
Thick and viscous, chewy, syrupy-sticky. Decent carbonation, considering the beer's mass and girth. A bit drying, with a vague glimmer of boozy warmth—very subdued for 12% ABV and impressively graceful.
Yum! This is a really nice barleywine, with some bourbon presence but nothing like dominated by it. Complex and impressively intense, beautifully well-integrated bur more poised and composed than balanced—basically a malt-bomb. Obviously a sipping beer—it's too strong and too imposing to be anything else—but delicious and drinkable for all-a-that. Probably had at least another six months in the bottle in it: this beer has the substance to age for a long time, I think.
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| Big Sky Olde Bluehair (2012) |
Lots of toast and caramel and vanilla, hints of dark fruits—figs and plums, mostly—and nits and toffee, flickers of peat and smoke. Grassy-floral-earthy bitterness manages a stalemate if never quite achieving balance. Dries out gradually but pretty thoroughly.
Thick and viscous, chewy, syrupy-sticky. Decent carbonation, considering the beer's mass and girth. A bit drying, with a vague glimmer of boozy warmth—very subdued for 12% ABV and impressively graceful.
Yum! This is a really nice barleywine, with some bourbon presence but nothing like dominated by it. Complex and impressively intense, beautifully well-integrated bur more poised and composed than balanced—basically a malt-bomb. Obviously a sipping beer—it's too strong and too imposing to be anything else—but delicious and drinkable for all-a-that. Probably had at least another six months in the bottle in it: this beer has the substance to age for a long time, I think.
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