Tonight's beer: Brasserie Silly Cognac Barrel-aged Scotch Silly
Darkly fruity to begin: plums and figs and dates and grapes and cherries; all soaked in brandy and rum, smeared over dark bread stippled with toast. Earthy-grassy peaty bitterness emerges around the edges, then recedes swiftly. Occasional flickers of baking spice (cloves, allspice, cinnamon), vanilla, tobacco. Eventually dries out pretty well.
Maybe a little thicker than medium-bodied, lots of fine carbonation. Some light stickiness around the finish, but mostly clean. Alarmingly little hint of the 11% ABV lurking herein. Softly drying, eventually a little refreshing.
A beautiful big dark beer that turned out to be just about perfect for a gorgeous late-ish-summer evening. Deliriously intense and complex, amazingly graceful and well-balanced and entirely-integrated. There's a little extra brandy character, maybe, but there's almost always at least a little in dark Belgian beers, so it's not dominated by the barrel character or anything like that. Remarkably drinkable considering all that's going on. Turns out to be a magnificent digestif.
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| Brasserie Silly Cognac Barrel-aged Scotch Silly |
Darkly fruity to begin: plums and figs and dates and grapes and cherries; all soaked in brandy and rum, smeared over dark bread stippled with toast. Earthy-grassy peaty bitterness emerges around the edges, then recedes swiftly. Occasional flickers of baking spice (cloves, allspice, cinnamon), vanilla, tobacco. Eventually dries out pretty well.
Maybe a little thicker than medium-bodied, lots of fine carbonation. Some light stickiness around the finish, but mostly clean. Alarmingly little hint of the 11% ABV lurking herein. Softly drying, eventually a little refreshing.
A beautiful big dark beer that turned out to be just about perfect for a gorgeous late-ish-summer evening. Deliriously intense and complex, amazingly graceful and well-balanced and entirely-integrated. There's a little extra brandy character, maybe, but there's almost always at least a little in dark Belgian beers, so it's not dominated by the barrel character or anything like that. Remarkably drinkable considering all that's going on. Turns out to be a magnificent digestif.
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