Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Yule Tide (2015)
Lots of dark and fruity sweetness: bananas, dark bread, caramel/brown sugar/molasses. Cloves and ginger right behind, maybe other spices lurking. Hints of grassy-floral bitterness, then rum appears around the finish and lingers into a gradually dry-ish finish.
Distinctly light-bodied, nice plentiful fine carbonation. Some bready-syrupy stickiness, rapidly clean and cleansing. Finally drying and refreshing. Maybe a kiss of boozy warmth—remarkably subtle and subdued for 9% ABV.
Wow. I don't get too many weizenbocks—though I love the style—but this is *nice*. Comes across as pretty true-to-style: The ginger and the rum character are pretty placed and integrated into the main body of the beer. Nicely intense and complex, something a lot like balanced. Drinkable as hell. I persist in being pleased to see Heavy Seas continue to try new things. Local heroes, for me.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Yule Tide (2015) |
Lots of dark and fruity sweetness: bananas, dark bread, caramel/brown sugar/molasses. Cloves and ginger right behind, maybe other spices lurking. Hints of grassy-floral bitterness, then rum appears around the finish and lingers into a gradually dry-ish finish.
Distinctly light-bodied, nice plentiful fine carbonation. Some bready-syrupy stickiness, rapidly clean and cleansing. Finally drying and refreshing. Maybe a kiss of boozy warmth—remarkably subtle and subdued for 9% ABV.
Wow. I don't get too many weizenbocks—though I love the style—but this is *nice*. Comes across as pretty true-to-style: The ginger and the rum character are pretty placed and integrated into the main body of the beer. Nicely intense and complex, something a lot like balanced. Drinkable as hell. I persist in being pleased to see Heavy Seas continue to try new things. Local heroes, for me.
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