Tonight's beer: Weyerbacher 20th Anniversary
Dark fruits—cherries, plums, figs, dates—layered into bread and dark caramel and toast. Baking spices (the coriander and star anise on the label, alongside impressions of cloves and allspice) mingle with floral-grassy-earthy bitterness to provide surprisingly effective balance. Hints of peat and tobacco and smoke, allegations of rum and brandy.
Medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. A bit of bready stickiness into the finish, but mostly drying and surprisingly refreshing. Shockingly little alcohol presence, especially given the 11% ABV—just a soft vague prickly glow. Distinctly smooth.
I missed Nineteen—the first one I'd missed since Thirteen—because I don't like mangoes; I'm happy they brewed a beer without ingredients I strongly dislike (that's about me, not them; I trust that Nineteen came out exactly as they intended) so I can raise this to them, then drink it. Crazily intense and staggeringly complex, impressively well-balanced. Gloriously integrated and scarily drinkable. Definitely a beautiful way for these folks to celebrate an anniversary—especially a big round one like twenty—and I'm looking forward to seeing how this beer holds up the next couple years. Yum!
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| Weyerbacher 20th Anniversary |
Dark fruits—cherries, plums, figs, dates—layered into bread and dark caramel and toast. Baking spices (the coriander and star anise on the label, alongside impressions of cloves and allspice) mingle with floral-grassy-earthy bitterness to provide surprisingly effective balance. Hints of peat and tobacco and smoke, allegations of rum and brandy.
Medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. A bit of bready stickiness into the finish, but mostly drying and surprisingly refreshing. Shockingly little alcohol presence, especially given the 11% ABV—just a soft vague prickly glow. Distinctly smooth.
I missed Nineteen—the first one I'd missed since Thirteen—because I don't like mangoes; I'm happy they brewed a beer without ingredients I strongly dislike (that's about me, not them; I trust that Nineteen came out exactly as they intended) so I can raise this to them, then drink it. Crazily intense and staggeringly complex, impressively well-balanced. Gloriously integrated and scarily drinkable. Definitely a beautiful way for these folks to celebrate an anniversary—especially a big round one like twenty—and I'm looking forward to seeing how this beer holds up the next couple years. Yum!
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