Tonight's beer: Anchor Our Special Ale (2014)
Dark-bready sweetness, toasted and slathered with caramel. Bright woody spice (nutmeg? cardamom? juniper?) alongside. Nuts and toffee back a bit, with dried/candied dark fruits (cherries, plums, dates, figs) and earthy-grassy-piny bitterness woven in. The beer slides easily toward surprisingly dry by the end.
Bready-chewy, a little thicker than medium-bodied; nicely carbonated. Traces of syrupy stickiness, but mostly clean. More drying than many spiced beers, and more refreshing.
Always a delicious beer, never brewed the same twice; I'd imagine that's difficult. Tons of flavor, for 5.5% ABV, staggeringly intense and complex. Wonderfully well-integrated and impressively balanced. Poised and graceful, supple and subtle, very drinkable. Ever winter (or thereabouts) I buy a sixer, to see what manner of alchemy Anchor have pulled off; it's always worth it.
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| Anchor Our Special Ale (2014) |
Dark-bready sweetness, toasted and slathered with caramel. Bright woody spice (nutmeg? cardamom? juniper?) alongside. Nuts and toffee back a bit, with dried/candied dark fruits (cherries, plums, dates, figs) and earthy-grassy-piny bitterness woven in. The beer slides easily toward surprisingly dry by the end.
Bready-chewy, a little thicker than medium-bodied; nicely carbonated. Traces of syrupy stickiness, but mostly clean. More drying than many spiced beers, and more refreshing.
Always a delicious beer, never brewed the same twice; I'd imagine that's difficult. Tons of flavor, for 5.5% ABV, staggeringly intense and complex. Wonderfully well-integrated and impressively balanced. Poised and graceful, supple and subtle, very drinkable. Ever winter (or thereabouts) I buy a sixer, to see what manner of alchemy Anchor have pulled off; it's always worth it.
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