Tonight's beer: Sierra Nevada Narwhal (2013)
Lots of roast character up front: dark chocolate and coffee; toast and rark bread, caramel and molasses and vanilla braided thickly in. Earthy-grassy bitterness flickering around the edges; burnt fruit and ash and smoke waft briefly past. Starts thickly bittersweet; wraps up gradually very dry.
Thick, carbonation may be a tad sparse but is adequate; kinda sludgy, thick and chewy. Some syrupy stickiness into the finish. A bit of boozy prickle, but remarkably subdued for 10.2% ABV. Eventually, gently drying.
A very tasty Big American Stout, drinkable and supple, as graceful as one can expect form such a big beer. Intense as hell, and impressively complex; tightly-integrated and something distinctly like unto balanced. The beer definitely is well-served by time int he bottle; I'd be inclined to say it needs it, as my memory of it fresh is lots of heat.
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| Sierra Nevada Narwhal (2013) |
Lots of roast character up front: dark chocolate and coffee; toast and rark bread, caramel and molasses and vanilla braided thickly in. Earthy-grassy bitterness flickering around the edges; burnt fruit and ash and smoke waft briefly past. Starts thickly bittersweet; wraps up gradually very dry.
Thick, carbonation may be a tad sparse but is adequate; kinda sludgy, thick and chewy. Some syrupy stickiness into the finish. A bit of boozy prickle, but remarkably subdued for 10.2% ABV. Eventually, gently drying.
A very tasty Big American Stout, drinkable and supple, as graceful as one can expect form such a big beer. Intense as hell, and impressively complex; tightly-integrated and something distinctly like unto balanced. The beer definitely is well-served by time int he bottle; I'd be inclined to say it needs it, as my memory of it fresh is lots of heat.
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