Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Siren Noire
Lots of dark chocolate, backed by other roasty impressions—mainly coffee, some toffee. Plenty of caramel and toasty sweetness with brunt fruits lurking. Vanilla and oak a strong reminder of the bourbon barrels the beer was aged in. Earthy-peaty grassy bitterness arising mostly around the finish, as the beer struggles mightily to dry out. Dim distant flickers of ash and smoke.
Kinda thin—the beer isn't really chewy at all—but dense, viscous, sticky. Mildly carbonated. A soft boozy glow, kinda restrained for 9.5% ABV. Pretty smooth, overall; filling and satisfying.
Very nice: The taste is about what one would expect from a bourbon-barrel-aged stout brewed with cacao nibs—there's not anything earthshaking here, but neither is there a foot places wrong. It might not be balanced, but I don't think it's supposed to be, and it's marvelously well-integrated; intense if graceful and more than complex enough to be interesting. Delicious, if definitely sweet enough to be a dessert beer.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Siren Noire |
Lots of dark chocolate, backed by other roasty impressions—mainly coffee, some toffee. Plenty of caramel and toasty sweetness with brunt fruits lurking. Vanilla and oak a strong reminder of the bourbon barrels the beer was aged in. Earthy-peaty grassy bitterness arising mostly around the finish, as the beer struggles mightily to dry out. Dim distant flickers of ash and smoke.
Kinda thin—the beer isn't really chewy at all—but dense, viscous, sticky. Mildly carbonated. A soft boozy glow, kinda restrained for 9.5% ABV. Pretty smooth, overall; filling and satisfying.
Very nice: The taste is about what one would expect from a bourbon-barrel-aged stout brewed with cacao nibs—there's not anything earthshaking here, but neither is there a foot places wrong. It might not be balanced, but I don't think it's supposed to be, and it's marvelously well-integrated; intense if graceful and more than complex enough to be interesting. Delicious, if definitely sweet enough to be a dessert beer.
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