Tonight's beer: Forge Elder Gods Ale
Some tart-ish raspberries open, layered with darkish chocolate (and never really going away, even with all the other flavors going on). Dark bread and caramel with toast around the edges lurking in the background. Grassy bitterness emerges toward the finish, speckled with earth and wisps of peat and smoke. The beer evolves readily and smoothly to dry, with late possibilities of vanilla.
A bit thicker than medium-bodied, kinda chewy and a little sticky but lots of fine carbonation to beak things loose. Basically no indication of the substantial (11% ABV) alcohol payload this beer is carrying. Gradually, gently drying.
A big and burly beer, appropriate for something old and powerful and entirely disinterested in humanity (or, alternatively, perfect for protecting the last shreds of one's meager sanity should one come face-to-face with something old and powerful and utterly disinterested in humanity). Smooth and scarily drinkable, staggeringly complex and intense, astonishingly well-balanced and integrated (especially considering all the stuff the brewers tossed in). Clearly a beer that has survived a year or so in the bottle nicely, and would probably be up for more. Iä! Iä!
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| Forge Elder Gods Ale |
Some tart-ish raspberries open, layered with darkish chocolate (and never really going away, even with all the other flavors going on). Dark bread and caramel with toast around the edges lurking in the background. Grassy bitterness emerges toward the finish, speckled with earth and wisps of peat and smoke. The beer evolves readily and smoothly to dry, with late possibilities of vanilla.
A bit thicker than medium-bodied, kinda chewy and a little sticky but lots of fine carbonation to beak things loose. Basically no indication of the substantial (11% ABV) alcohol payload this beer is carrying. Gradually, gently drying.
A big and burly beer, appropriate for something old and powerful and entirely disinterested in humanity (or, alternatively, perfect for protecting the last shreds of one's meager sanity should one come face-to-face with something old and powerful and utterly disinterested in humanity). Smooth and scarily drinkable, staggeringly complex and intense, astonishingly well-balanced and integrated (especially considering all the stuff the brewers tossed in). Clearly a beer that has survived a year or so in the bottle nicely, and would probably be up for more. Iä! Iä!
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