Tonight's beer: Odell 180 Shilling Ale
Starts out deeply sweet: bread, caramel, toast (possible flecks of butter); scattered smatterings of nuts and toffee and dried fruits (plums and cherries, maybe dates and figs). Background impressions of grassy-earthy bitterness, peat and smoke, vanilla and baking spice, chocolate and coffee. Gradually transitions to softly dry.
Bready thick and chewy, decently carbonated. Some stickiness from the middle onward, tending toward gentle dryness, almost refreshing. Dim hints of boozy glow, very restrained for 9.6% ABV.
A very tasty barleywine, more in the English tradition of the style than the (much younger) American one. Starts seeming as though it's going to be malt-bomb city, but turns out to be better-balanced than that; appropriately intense and complex, distinctly strong byt supple and graceful. Surprisingly drinkable in a big sipping beer way. Occasionally, I find myself in possession of some Odell beer; it's usually a happy occasion.
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| Odell 180 Shilling Ale |
Starts out deeply sweet: bread, caramel, toast (possible flecks of butter); scattered smatterings of nuts and toffee and dried fruits (plums and cherries, maybe dates and figs). Background impressions of grassy-earthy bitterness, peat and smoke, vanilla and baking spice, chocolate and coffee. Gradually transitions to softly dry.
Bready thick and chewy, decently carbonated. Some stickiness from the middle onward, tending toward gentle dryness, almost refreshing. Dim hints of boozy glow, very restrained for 9.6% ABV.
A very tasty barleywine, more in the English tradition of the style than the (much younger) American one. Starts seeming as though it's going to be malt-bomb city, but turns out to be better-balanced than that; appropriately intense and complex, distinctly strong byt supple and graceful. Surprisingly drinkable in a big sipping beer way. Occasionally, I find myself in possession of some Odell beer; it's usually a happy occasion.
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