Tonight's beer: Anchor Winter Wheat
Chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate, with caramel tilting it strongly toward sweet; toast and dark bread tagging along, with possibilities of dried/candied fruit. Hints of earthy-grassy-floral bitterness in the far background, coming forward as the beer slides easily to a moderately dry finish..
Medium-light-bodied, highly carbonated. A bready stickiness, but mostly clean; cleansing and drying and surprisingly refreshing. Notably smooth into and beyond the finish.
Yum! Surprisingly malty for a wheat beer, even a dark one, but not cloying at all. Appropriately intense and complex, impressively well-balanced and integrated. Drinkable as hell. I wouldn't have expected a dark wheat beer as a winter seasonal beer, but this works and is in fact extraordinarily nice.
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| Anchor Winter Wheat |
Chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate, with caramel tilting it strongly toward sweet; toast and dark bread tagging along, with possibilities of dried/candied fruit. Hints of earthy-grassy-floral bitterness in the far background, coming forward as the beer slides easily to a moderately dry finish..
Medium-light-bodied, highly carbonated. A bready stickiness, but mostly clean; cleansing and drying and surprisingly refreshing. Notably smooth into and beyond the finish.
Yum! Surprisingly malty for a wheat beer, even a dark one, but not cloying at all. Appropriately intense and complex, impressively well-balanced and integrated. Drinkable as hell. I wouldn't have expected a dark wheat beer as a winter seasonal beer, but this works and is in fact extraordinarily nice.
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