Tonight's beer: Crown Valley Big Bison
Starts out pretty sweet: bread and caramel and hints of toast, figs and dates and plums; threads of cherries and grapes. Earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness emerges around the middle, with impressions of dark baking spice (cloves, allspice, cinnamon) in the distance. Flecks of smoke and tobacco appear around the finish as the beer evolves smoothly to impressively dry.
A little heavier than medium-bodied, maybe, with good carbonation. A little soft chewiness and stickiness, eventually pretty clean; nicely dry and impressively refreshing.
A very tasty and entirely convincing dubbel, from a brewery that's entirely new to me. Intense and remarkably complex, nicely balanced and integrated, supple and graceful and amazingly drinkable. Turns out the bison on the label was a great reason to buy the beer.
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| Crown Valley Big Bison |
Starts out pretty sweet: bread and caramel and hints of toast, figs and dates and plums; threads of cherries and grapes. Earthy-grassy-peaty bitterness emerges around the middle, with impressions of dark baking spice (cloves, allspice, cinnamon) in the distance. Flecks of smoke and tobacco appear around the finish as the beer evolves smoothly to impressively dry.
A little heavier than medium-bodied, maybe, with good carbonation. A little soft chewiness and stickiness, eventually pretty clean; nicely dry and impressively refreshing.
A very tasty and entirely convincing dubbel, from a brewery that's entirely new to me. Intense and remarkably complex, nicely balanced and integrated, supple and graceful and amazingly drinkable. Turns out the bison on the label was a great reason to buy the beer.
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