Tonight's beer: Boulevard (Smokestack Series) The Calling
Lots (and lots (and lots)) of bitterness to open, laden with tropical fruits, melons, musk; citrus fills the interstices with lime and orange, flickers of grapefruit. Hints of pine and grass around the edges. Pale bread in the background, spread a little thin (and more than a little overwhelmed) but lots of it. Wraps up blisteringly dry.
Light-bodied, smooth, nicely carbonated; drying to the point of aridity. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, lurking into and through the finish. Very little alcohol presence—a subdued prickle is all.
Wow! Boulevard really cut loose with this, in a way kinda not like, say, Double-Wide (which I love, lots). Insanely intense, massively complex; unified and poised but not in the same universe as "balanced." Deliriously drinkable. Really: very, *very* nice.
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| Boulevard (Smokestack Series) The Calling |
Lots (and lots (and lots)) of bitterness to open, laden with tropical fruits, melons, musk; citrus fills the interstices with lime and orange, flickers of grapefruit. Hints of pine and grass around the edges. Pale bread in the background, spread a little thin (and more than a little overwhelmed) but lots of it. Wraps up blisteringly dry.
Light-bodied, smooth, nicely carbonated; drying to the point of aridity. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, lurking into and through the finish. Very little alcohol presence—a subdued prickle is all.
Wow! Boulevard really cut loose with this, in a way kinda not like, say, Double-Wide (which I love, lots). Insanely intense, massively complex; unified and poised but not in the same universe as "balanced." Deliriously drinkable. Really: very, *very* nice.
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