Tonight's beer: Anchor Big Leaf Maple
Dark sweetness—maple syrup on toast—abutting firmly present bitterness: flowers, pine, citrus, grass, musky/tropical grace notes. Walks a finely balanced bittersweet razor wire through a gradual transition to surprisingly dry, eventually tilting slightly to bitter.
Medium-bodied, with good scrubbing carbonation. Drying and briskly refreshing. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, but wraps up kinda clean.
Yum! Maybe a bit more assertively-hopped than I remember from last year (without checking my notes, anyway) but that's not in the same universe as a complaint. Bracingly intense and impressively complex; finely balanced and precisely poised. Drinkable as hell, and obviously a beer that would play wonderfully with food. A tasty autumn seasonal from on the of the oldest American craft breweries.
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| Anchor Big Leaf Maple |
Dark sweetness—maple syrup on toast—abutting firmly present bitterness: flowers, pine, citrus, grass, musky/tropical grace notes. Walks a finely balanced bittersweet razor wire through a gradual transition to surprisingly dry, eventually tilting slightly to bitter.
Medium-bodied, with good scrubbing carbonation. Drying and briskly refreshing. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, but wraps up kinda clean.
Yum! Maybe a bit more assertively-hopped than I remember from last year (without checking my notes, anyway) but that's not in the same universe as a complaint. Bracingly intense and impressively complex; finely balanced and precisely poised. Drinkable as hell, and obviously a beer that would play wonderfully with food. A tasty autumn seasonal from on the of the oldest American craft breweries.
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