Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Plank III
White-bready sweetness, caramel, a solid layer of baking spices (mainly allspice and cloves); thick smears of pale fruits underneath: bananas and apples and pears and maybe white grapes. Grassy-floral bitterness appears around the middle and hangs on, pushing forward a bit as the beer dries out a good bit. Vague rummy flickers around the edges.
Medium-bodied and smooth, lightly carbonated. Some syrupy stickiness lingers a while; Lightly cleansing; eventually drying enough to be refreshing. Maybe a trace of boozy prickle.
A delicious experiment, probably a direct ancestor of the same brewery's Phantom Ship (even though other breweries have made bourbon-barrel tripels, I'm sure it wasn't an accident they made this first). Intense and complex as hell, superbly balanced and completely integrated. Magnificently drinkable. Another excellent beer from a local brewery that almost always does good work.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Plank III |
White-bready sweetness, caramel, a solid layer of baking spices (mainly allspice and cloves); thick smears of pale fruits underneath: bananas and apples and pears and maybe white grapes. Grassy-floral bitterness appears around the middle and hangs on, pushing forward a bit as the beer dries out a good bit. Vague rummy flickers around the edges.
Medium-bodied and smooth, lightly carbonated. Some syrupy stickiness lingers a while; Lightly cleansing; eventually drying enough to be refreshing. Maybe a trace of boozy prickle.
A delicious experiment, probably a direct ancestor of the same brewery's Phantom Ship (even though other breweries have made bourbon-barrel tripels, I'm sure it wasn't an accident they made this first). Intense and complex as hell, superbly balanced and completely integrated. Magnificently drinkable. Another excellent beer from a local brewery that almost always does good work.
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