Tonight's beer: Wild Heaven Eschaton
Starts out with lots of dark dried/candied fruits: figs and dates and cherries and plums; almost tannic and surprisingly dry (or at least not-sweet). Caramel and toast right behind, with hints of toffee. Baking spice—mostly cloves and cinnamon—flickers around the periphery, threaded with earth and smoke and tobacco. Wraps up gradually and thoroughly dry, after all that journey through other.
Bready-thick and a bit chewy, nicely carbonated. Spiky and briskly drying. Maybe a dim boozy glow but not much alcohol presence given the 10.5% ABV. A trace of stickiness but mostly clean, cleansing and refreshing.
An extraordinarily tasty quadrupel, a bit vinous/tannic but otherwise spot-on for the style (and I understand that the archetypes can develop those characteristics when aged). Intense and complex as heck, pretty nicely balanced, well-integrated and massively drinkable. The beers I've had from Wild Heaven have impressed the hell out of me, and this is no exception.
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| Wild Heaven Eschaton |
Starts out with lots of dark dried/candied fruits: figs and dates and cherries and plums; almost tannic and surprisingly dry (or at least not-sweet). Caramel and toast right behind, with hints of toffee. Baking spice—mostly cloves and cinnamon—flickers around the periphery, threaded with earth and smoke and tobacco. Wraps up gradually and thoroughly dry, after all that journey through other.
Bready-thick and a bit chewy, nicely carbonated. Spiky and briskly drying. Maybe a dim boozy glow but not much alcohol presence given the 10.5% ABV. A trace of stickiness but mostly clean, cleansing and refreshing.
An extraordinarily tasty quadrupel, a bit vinous/tannic but otherwise spot-on for the style (and I understand that the archetypes can develop those characteristics when aged). Intense and complex as heck, pretty nicely balanced, well-integrated and massively drinkable. The beers I've had from Wild Heaven have impressed the hell out of me, and this is no exception.
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