Tonight's beer: Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche
Caramel-toasty-bready sweetness, heavily layered with deep smoke (knida like ham, or bacon, or maybe Gouda; distinctly its own thing, though). Grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, shouldering through the smoke; the beer does dry out some, eventually.
Bready and chewy, a bit thicker than medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some soft stickiness through the middle into and beyond the finish. Gently drying, impressively refreshing. Very subtle booze character.
A tasty beer, skittering on a boundary between rauchbier and doppelbock (it could be one or the other or both or neither). The smoke is the first thing one notices (it's the main thing one smells), but the palate adapts and the beer opens up and turns out to be surprisingly well-balanced and superbly integrated; it's nicely intense and intense, and amazingly drinkable. It wasn't the doppelbock I was looking for (the Andechs had apparently flown off the shelves, to the surprise of roughly no one), but it was an excellent purchase anyway.
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| Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche |
Caramel-toasty-bready sweetness, heavily layered with deep smoke (knida like ham, or bacon, or maybe Gouda; distinctly its own thing, though). Grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, shouldering through the smoke; the beer does dry out some, eventually.
Bready and chewy, a bit thicker than medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some soft stickiness through the middle into and beyond the finish. Gently drying, impressively refreshing. Very subtle booze character.
A tasty beer, skittering on a boundary between rauchbier and doppelbock (it could be one or the other or both or neither). The smoke is the first thing one notices (it's the main thing one smells), but the palate adapts and the beer opens up and turns out to be surprisingly well-balanced and superbly integrated; it's nicely intense and intense, and amazingly drinkable. It wasn't the doppelbock I was looking for (the Andechs had apparently flown off the shelves, to the surprise of roughly no one), but it was an excellent purchase anyway.
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