Tonight's beer: Prairie Christmas Bomb!
Coffee and chocolate, dark burnt fruits, baking spice (nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe allspice/cloves). Smoke and ash present but subdued. Hints of caramel, and earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness. Deeply roasty, then a flicker of sweetness, then thickly dry.
Thick, softly chewy, some stickiness; adequately carbonated. Roasty-drying, mostly, from start to finish. Maybe a dull flicker of boozy warmth, no real hint otherwise of the 11% ABV. Finishes slowly, almost grudgingly.
A very nice and very large stout, amply spiced and perfectly seasonal for a snowy evening—even two and a half months after Christmas. Staggeringly intense and complex, mostly roasty but nicely integrated. Almost alarmingly drinkable. I've only had two beers from Prairie, but I can see how they got the reputation they have.
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| Prairie Christmas Bomb! |
Coffee and chocolate, dark burnt fruits, baking spice (nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe allspice/cloves). Smoke and ash present but subdued. Hints of caramel, and earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness. Deeply roasty, then a flicker of sweetness, then thickly dry.
Thick, softly chewy, some stickiness; adequately carbonated. Roasty-drying, mostly, from start to finish. Maybe a dull flicker of boozy warmth, no real hint otherwise of the 11% ABV. Finishes slowly, almost grudgingly.
A very nice and very large stout, amply spiced and perfectly seasonal for a snowy evening—even two and a half months after Christmas. Staggeringly intense and complex, mostly roasty but nicely integrated. Almost alarmingly drinkable. I've only had two beers from Prairie, but I can see how they got the reputation they have.
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