Tonight's beer: Deschutes Jubel (2010)
Lots of rich caramel, bread, some toast, hints of dried/candied dark fruits—raisins, cherries, maybe prunes and/or figs. Threads of nuts/toffee and vanilla in the background. Distant flickers of earthy-grassy bitterness. Maybe a little wet-papery oxidation.
Medium-bodied, softly-carbonated, a bit bready-chewy and sticky. Distinctly smooth, with basically zero alcohol presence. A little flinty toward the finish, eventually mildly drying.
Yum! This is a beer that was made to be aged; it might have been able to go a little further, but I'm glad to have drunk it now. Plenty intense and very complex. nicely balanced and definitely mellowed by the time in the bottle. Drinkable as hell in a contemplative sipping beer kinda way. Definitely worth getting the timing right to find this beer; now I have to wait for 2020, I guess. Oh, well.
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| Deschutes Jubel (2010) |
Lots of rich caramel, bread, some toast, hints of dried/candied dark fruits—raisins, cherries, maybe prunes and/or figs. Threads of nuts/toffee and vanilla in the background. Distant flickers of earthy-grassy bitterness. Maybe a little wet-papery oxidation.
Medium-bodied, softly-carbonated, a bit bready-chewy and sticky. Distinctly smooth, with basically zero alcohol presence. A little flinty toward the finish, eventually mildly drying.
Yum! This is a beer that was made to be aged; it might have been able to go a little further, but I'm glad to have drunk it now. Plenty intense and very complex. nicely balanced and definitely mellowed by the time in the bottle. Drinkable as hell in a contemplative sipping beer kinda way. Definitely worth getting the timing right to find this beer; now I have to wait for 2020, I guess. Oh, well.
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