Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Yule Tide (2014)
It's dessert! Rummy caramel and dark bread layered with bananas and molasses and brown sugar, sprinkled with cloves and allspice, maybe ginger and cinnamon. Toffee and nuts in the distance. Soft bitterness—earthy and a little grassy—emerges toward the end as the beer works hard to dry out (and does, eventually, a little).
Medium-bodied, more or less; smooth and nicely carbonated. A little boozy, a little sticky—bready and syrupy; drying and shockingly refreshing.
The never-ending Xmas (beer) experience continues. This is a delicious version of a weizenbock, with native style character embraced and enhanced—but not exaggerated—by the rum-barrel-aging. Intense as hell and amazingly complex, smooth and supple and graceful and gloriously well-integrated; more poised than balanced: there's a helluva lot of sweetness, here. Drinkable to the point of being slurpable. Another home run from Heavy Seas.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Yule Tide (2014) |
It's dessert! Rummy caramel and dark bread layered with bananas and molasses and brown sugar, sprinkled with cloves and allspice, maybe ginger and cinnamon. Toffee and nuts in the distance. Soft bitterness—earthy and a little grassy—emerges toward the end as the beer works hard to dry out (and does, eventually, a little).
Medium-bodied, more or less; smooth and nicely carbonated. A little boozy, a little sticky—bready and syrupy; drying and shockingly refreshing.
The never-ending Xmas (beer) experience continues. This is a delicious version of a weizenbock, with native style character embraced and enhanced—but not exaggerated—by the rum-barrel-aging. Intense as hell and amazingly complex, smooth and supple and graceful and gloriously well-integrated; more poised than balanced: there's a helluva lot of sweetness, here. Drinkable to the point of being slurpable. Another home run from Heavy Seas.
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