Tonight's beer: Victory Wild Devil
Starts out with some grassy-piny bitterness, threads of citrus and flowers woven in. Bready sweetness, richly spiked with caramel and dried fruits, emerges for a moment around the middle; then, the beer veers abruptly to almost punishingly dry—Saharan is an apt descriptor, here.
Light-bodied and highly carbonated; scrubbing and scouring and drying and surprisingly refreshing. There's a little resinous-syrupy stickiness, but the beer is mostly clean.
Tasty beer is tasty. Horn Devil is a superb IPA (If one I haven't had in a while) and this is a pleasant variant. Shockingly intense, complex enough (maybe a bit dominated by the Brett (which the majority of Brett beers seem to be, so it's hard to hate on this beer for that)); more drinkable than one might expect, and entirely its own thing and and integrated thing at that. This was probably the first Bretty beer I ever had, and I like Bretty beers (so there's a soft warm place in my heart for it).
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| Victory Wild Devil |
Starts out with some grassy-piny bitterness, threads of citrus and flowers woven in. Bready sweetness, richly spiked with caramel and dried fruits, emerges for a moment around the middle; then, the beer veers abruptly to almost punishingly dry—Saharan is an apt descriptor, here.
Light-bodied and highly carbonated; scrubbing and scouring and drying and surprisingly refreshing. There's a little resinous-syrupy stickiness, but the beer is mostly clean.
Tasty beer is tasty. Horn Devil is a superb IPA (If one I haven't had in a while) and this is a pleasant variant. Shockingly intense, complex enough (maybe a bit dominated by the Brett (which the majority of Brett beers seem to be, so it's hard to hate on this beer for that)); more drinkable than one might expect, and entirely its own thing and and integrated thing at that. This was probably the first Bretty beer I ever had, and I like Bretty beers (so there's a soft warm place in my heart for it).
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