Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters Series) Siren Noire (2014)
Dark and bitter chocolate up front, backed by butter-vanilla bourbon character; flickers and flashes of caramel. Dark bread and toast fill the interstices, along with perhaps a splash of coffee.. Earthy-grassy-ashy bitterness emerges around the finish, as the beer struggles to dry out a little.
A bit syrupy-sticky, lightly carbonated, maybe just a little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied. Nowhere near the alcohol presence I'd expect, given the 9.5% ABV. Distinctly smooth.
Wow. I don't know that I've had this beer fresh in a while (at least two years), but the year or so this spent in the bottle didn't hurt, at a minimum; it may have pulled this beer together some. Impressively intense and complex, supple and graceful, wonderfully well-integrated. Staggeringly drinkable, with basically no hint of the sizable boozy payload. This is delicious, another local brewer doing awesome stuff.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters Series) Siren Noire (2014) |
Dark and bitter chocolate up front, backed by butter-vanilla bourbon character; flickers and flashes of caramel. Dark bread and toast fill the interstices, along with perhaps a splash of coffee.. Earthy-grassy-ashy bitterness emerges around the finish, as the beer struggles to dry out a little.
A bit syrupy-sticky, lightly carbonated, maybe just a little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied. Nowhere near the alcohol presence I'd expect, given the 9.5% ABV. Distinctly smooth.
Wow. I don't know that I've had this beer fresh in a while (at least two years), but the year or so this spent in the bottle didn't hurt, at a minimum; it may have pulled this beer together some. Impressively intense and complex, supple and graceful, wonderfully well-integrated. Staggeringly drinkable, with basically no hint of the sizable boozy payload. This is delicious, another local brewer doing awesome stuff.
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