Tonight's beer: Blue Mountain Barrel House Spooky
Deep caramel, bread and toast; pumpkins looming directly underneath. Dark chocolate through the middle, with counterpoints of vanilla and baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves). Earthy-grassy bitterness emerges toward the end, as the beer shuffles toward dry.
Thick and bready-soft, chewy and syrupy-sticky; nicely carbonated. There's a pretty heafy amount of booze in the beer, but it's hard to detect it: maybe a soft boozy prickle and glow. Smooth, eventually a little drying, struggling in the direction of refreshing.
Yum! There's a lot of chocolate in this, but it's not particularly stouty. Rich, dense, intense and complex; wonderfully well-integrated and a lot like balanced. Astonishingly drinkable. I hadn't had this before, but these folks have earned a lot of my trust. A wonderful beer to have, as fall refuses to give way to winter (and may start to feel pretty springlike come the weekend, I gather).
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| Blue Mountain Barrel House Spooky |
Deep caramel, bread and toast; pumpkins looming directly underneath. Dark chocolate through the middle, with counterpoints of vanilla and baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves). Earthy-grassy bitterness emerges toward the end, as the beer shuffles toward dry.
Thick and bready-soft, chewy and syrupy-sticky; nicely carbonated. There's a pretty heafy amount of booze in the beer, but it's hard to detect it: maybe a soft boozy prickle and glow. Smooth, eventually a little drying, struggling in the direction of refreshing.
Yum! There's a lot of chocolate in this, but it's not particularly stouty. Rich, dense, intense and complex; wonderfully well-integrated and a lot like balanced. Astonishingly drinkable. I hadn't had this before, but these folks have earned a lot of my trust. A wonderful beer to have, as fall refuses to give way to winter (and may start to feel pretty springlike come the weekend, I gather).
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