Tonight's beer: Grand Teton Bone Warmer (2013)
Lots of malts, front and center: Caramel, toast/bread, nuts/toffee. Some dried/candied dark fruits—mainly figs and raisins—around the middle, with minor hints of tartness lurking. Vague possibilities of earthy-grassy-spicy bitterness around the edges. Starts sweet, evolves to softly bittersweet.
Thick and bready and soft and chewy, mildly carbonate. A bit of stickiness, not surprising or particularly out of the way for a beer as sweet overall as this is. Not much alcohol presence, considering the 8.2% ABV.
As sweet a beer as I've had in a long time. It doesn't feel unintentional, but it's an idiosyncratic choice to say the least. Drinkable enough, though it's basically a dessert beer to sip your way through slowly. Intensely and complexly malt-bomby, steeply unbalanced but pretty well-integrated. Kinda tasty, if you're up for a (very) sweet beer.
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| Grand Teton Bone Warmer (2013) |
Lots of malts, front and center: Caramel, toast/bread, nuts/toffee. Some dried/candied dark fruits—mainly figs and raisins—around the middle, with minor hints of tartness lurking. Vague possibilities of earthy-grassy-spicy bitterness around the edges. Starts sweet, evolves to softly bittersweet.
Thick and bready and soft and chewy, mildly carbonate. A bit of stickiness, not surprising or particularly out of the way for a beer as sweet overall as this is. Not much alcohol presence, considering the 8.2% ABV.
As sweet a beer as I've had in a long time. It doesn't feel unintentional, but it's an idiosyncratic choice to say the least. Drinkable enough, though it's basically a dessert beer to sip your way through slowly. Intensely and complexly malt-bomby, steeply unbalanced but pretty well-integrated. Kinda tasty, if you're up for a (very) sweet beer.
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