Tonight's beer: Monday Night Gun Show
Lots of pale fruit to open—pears on top, apples and white grapes and apricots and peaches underneath—dried and candied. Pale bread lurking behind, with maybe a flicker of caramel. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, with sparkles of pine and citrus. Transitions quickly to an easy dryness. Maybe a dim hint of brandy and/or rum.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some stickiness around the edges, but eventually pretty clean. Softly drying, with a subdued boozy prickle and glow. Tends strongly to refreshing on and after the finish.
A pretty tasty Belgian strong pale ale—the pears are appropriate, just maybe a bit on the much side (though I really don't like pears on their own, so that might be effecting my judgment); intense and complex, pretty well-integrated. Pretty drinkable, in a sipping beer way. Probably the first beer I've had from Monday Night I haven't loved, but see my above comment about not liking pears much (and this beer is infused with pear juice). That's not strictly the brewery's fault, or the beer's.
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| Monday Night Gun Show |
Lots of pale fruit to open—pears on top, apples and white grapes and apricots and peaches underneath—dried and candied. Pale bread lurking behind, with maybe a flicker of caramel. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, with sparkles of pine and citrus. Transitions quickly to an easy dryness. Maybe a dim hint of brandy and/or rum.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some stickiness around the edges, but eventually pretty clean. Softly drying, with a subdued boozy prickle and glow. Tends strongly to refreshing on and after the finish.
A pretty tasty Belgian strong pale ale—the pears are appropriate, just maybe a bit on the much side (though I really don't like pears on their own, so that might be effecting my judgment); intense and complex, pretty well-integrated. Pretty drinkable, in a sipping beer way. Probably the first beer I've had from Monday Night I haven't loved, but see my above comment about not liking pears much (and this beer is infused with pear juice). That's not strictly the brewery's fault, or the beer's.
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