Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas Red Sky at Night
Lots of fruit at the start—pears, apples, maybe white grapes or muscadines—dried/candied but briskly dry and backed against grassy-floral-spicy (cloves and coriander) bitterness. Some bread with maybe a few grace notes of caramel in the background.
Light-bodied, nicely carbonated. Drying,scrubbing, refreshing. Maybe a little stickiness around the finish, but for the most part clean.
A delicious and drinkable saison, pretty convincing even though it leans more than a bit in the direction of a more standard Belgian strong pale ale. Appropriately staggeringly complex and intense, balanced, impressively well-integrated. While I don't completely (or even at all) understand why this is Heavy Seas' autumn seasonal, but I am always happy to see this beer come around.
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| Heavy Seas Red Sky at Night |
Lots of fruit at the start—pears, apples, maybe white grapes or muscadines—dried/candied but briskly dry and backed against grassy-floral-spicy (cloves and coriander) bitterness. Some bread with maybe a few grace notes of caramel in the background.
Light-bodied, nicely carbonated. Drying,scrubbing, refreshing. Maybe a little stickiness around the finish, but for the most part clean.
A delicious and drinkable saison, pretty convincing even though it leans more than a bit in the direction of a more standard Belgian strong pale ale. Appropriately staggeringly complex and intense, balanced, impressively well-integrated. While I don't completely (or even at all) understand why this is Heavy Seas' autumn seasonal, but I am always happy to see this beer come around.
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