Tonight's beer: Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Harvest Dance
Bready sweetness, smeared with honey and caramel; pale fruits just underneath—pears, apples, bananas, hints of tropical fruits. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, flecked with citrus and musk and maybe pine. Impressions of pepper and bright spice (coriander?) on the perimeter. Dries out quickly and pretty completely through the finish.
Medium-bodied, well-carbonated but distinctly smooth. Some chewiness and a little syrupy-resinous stickiness, eventually drying and refreshing, cleansing and scrubbing. Roughly no hint of the 8.6% ABV.
This is one of my favorite beers from one of my favorite breweries, the first wheatwine I had that didn't taste like an amped-up weizenbock (not that I don't love weizenbocks, but I think of this style as a barleywine brewed with wheat, not a bigger weizenbock). Intense and staggeringly complex, marvelously well-balanced and integrated, drinkable as hell. Supple and subtle, poised and graceful. As always, a delicious beer.
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| Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Harvest Dance |
Bready sweetness, smeared with honey and caramel; pale fruits just underneath—pears, apples, bananas, hints of tropical fruits. Floral-grassy bitterness emerges around the middle, flecked with citrus and musk and maybe pine. Impressions of pepper and bright spice (coriander?) on the perimeter. Dries out quickly and pretty completely through the finish.
Medium-bodied, well-carbonated but distinctly smooth. Some chewiness and a little syrupy-resinous stickiness, eventually drying and refreshing, cleansing and scrubbing. Roughly no hint of the 8.6% ABV.
This is one of my favorite beers from one of my favorite breweries, the first wheatwine I had that didn't taste like an amped-up weizenbock (not that I don't love weizenbocks, but I think of this style as a barleywine brewed with wheat, not a bigger weizenbock). Intense and staggeringly complex, marvelously well-balanced and integrated, drinkable as hell. Supple and subtle, poised and graceful. As always, a delicious beer.
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