Tonight's beer: Starr Hill Northern Lights
Lots of bitterness to start, with pine and grass backed by flowers and citrus (orange and grapefruit). Bready sweetness a quiet counterpoint, with grace notes of caramel and maybe toast. Slides from bitter to bracingly dry, with maybe a whistle-stop at sweet in-between.
Medium-bodied, with carbonation a little on the sparse side but still OK. A big wallop of syrupy stickiness lingers a long while. Drying, eventually, and tending some toward refreshing. Wraps up a little pulpy.
A very nice IPA: Thoroughly American, with lots of hops character. Not exactly balanced—but it's not supposed to be; impressively complex and intense. Astonishingly drinkable. I keep drinking good beers from these people, as I keep happening upon them, yet somehow I keep not seeking them out; that should maybe change.
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| Starr Hill Northern Lights |
Lots of bitterness to start, with pine and grass backed by flowers and citrus (orange and grapefruit). Bready sweetness a quiet counterpoint, with grace notes of caramel and maybe toast. Slides from bitter to bracingly dry, with maybe a whistle-stop at sweet in-between.
Medium-bodied, with carbonation a little on the sparse side but still OK. A big wallop of syrupy stickiness lingers a long while. Drying, eventually, and tending some toward refreshing. Wraps up a little pulpy.
A very nice IPA: Thoroughly American, with lots of hops character. Not exactly balanced—but it's not supposed to be; impressively complex and intense. Astonishingly drinkable. I keep drinking good beers from these people, as I keep happening upon them, yet somehow I keep not seeking them out; that should maybe change.
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