Tonight's beer: Clown Shoes Rexx
Opens with a flurry of floral-grassy bitterness, then caramel and toast and bread. Threads of vanilla around the middle. Bitterness reasserts itself strongly as the beer tilts and slumps and slopes toward dry.
Maybe a bit thicker than medium-bodied, decently-carbonated. Some bready-syrupy stickiness hangs around a while. While there's a lot of alcohol burn, the beer is 12% ABV—the bourbon barrels are strong with this one. Eventually the beer turns out to be a little bit drying.
As one might expect from Clown Shoes, this is a very tasty beer, albeit one thoroughly dominated by bourbon character, to the point it almost plays as a barleywine. Not particularly balanced, and more straightforward than I was expecting; blisteringly intense. Holds together pretty well, it maybe a bit loosely. About as hot a beer as I've had in some time, but still serves nicely as a big sipping beer.
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| Clown Shoes Rexx |
Opens with a flurry of floral-grassy bitterness, then caramel and toast and bread. Threads of vanilla around the middle. Bitterness reasserts itself strongly as the beer tilts and slumps and slopes toward dry.
Maybe a bit thicker than medium-bodied, decently-carbonated. Some bready-syrupy stickiness hangs around a while. While there's a lot of alcohol burn, the beer is 12% ABV—the bourbon barrels are strong with this one. Eventually the beer turns out to be a little bit drying.
As one might expect from Clown Shoes, this is a very tasty beer, albeit one thoroughly dominated by bourbon character, to the point it almost plays as a barleywine. Not particularly balanced, and more straightforward than I was expecting; blisteringly intense. Holds together pretty well, it maybe a bit loosely. About as hot a beer as I've had in some time, but still serves nicely as a big sipping beer.
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