Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas Double Cannon
Blisteringly bitter to start: grapefruit and limes, smatterings of orange and maybe lemon; melons and musky tropical fruits; flowers and pine and grass. Bready-caramel sweetness with just a hint of toast arises around the middle; it fates rapidly to an almost parched dry finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation a bit light but adequate. A surprising amount of resinous-syrupy stickiness, eventually kinda drying and refreshing, scouring and scrubbing, but nowhere near clean. A vague prickle of boozy heat in the background, pretty subdued for 9.5% ABV.
This isn't quite the hop-candy delight that Hi-Res is, but it's very, *very* close. Amazingly complex and intense, well-integrated and surprisingly close to balanced (for the style, that is, so more like poised than balanced, of course); distressingly drinkable. Heavy Seas really nailed this one. Wow.
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| Heavy Seas Double Cannon |
Blisteringly bitter to start: grapefruit and limes, smatterings of orange and maybe lemon; melons and musky tropical fruits; flowers and pine and grass. Bready-caramel sweetness with just a hint of toast arises around the middle; it fates rapidly to an almost parched dry finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation a bit light but adequate. A surprising amount of resinous-syrupy stickiness, eventually kinda drying and refreshing, scouring and scrubbing, but nowhere near clean. A vague prickle of boozy heat in the background, pretty subdued for 9.5% ABV.
This isn't quite the hop-candy delight that Hi-Res is, but it's very, *very* close. Amazingly complex and intense, well-integrated and surprisingly close to balanced (for the style, that is, so more like poised than balanced, of course); distressingly drinkable. Heavy Seas really nailed this one. Wow.
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