Tonight's beer: Selkirk Abbey Infidel
Opens with pale, fruity-bready sweetness, laced with dried pears and apples and white grapes. Flashes of caramel dance around. Citrus (grapefruit and lemon) woven with pine, flowers, and maybe musk and spice as bitterness steps forward a beat later. Snaps toward a powerful and steep flinty-dry finish. A smear of cardboard (almost certainly oxidation) around the edges, start to finish.
A little lighter than medium-bodied, with carbonation a little scant but mostly adequate. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, eventually drying and pretty refreshing. Not much hint of the 8.3% ABV.
I suspect this sat around a bit too long somewhere; could have been here as easily as anywhere else along the way (not assigning blame, here). Still nicely tasty, impressively complex and intense as hell; just tipped too far in a direction not the brewers' intent. Drinkable enough, for all-a-that. I'll probably give these folks a second chance, at some point.
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| Selkirk Abbey Infidel |
Opens with pale, fruity-bready sweetness, laced with dried pears and apples and white grapes. Flashes of caramel dance around. Citrus (grapefruit and lemon) woven with pine, flowers, and maybe musk and spice as bitterness steps forward a beat later. Snaps toward a powerful and steep flinty-dry finish. A smear of cardboard (almost certainly oxidation) around the edges, start to finish.
A little lighter than medium-bodied, with carbonation a little scant but mostly adequate. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness, eventually drying and pretty refreshing. Not much hint of the 8.3% ABV.
I suspect this sat around a bit too long somewhere; could have been here as easily as anywhere else along the way (not assigning blame, here). Still nicely tasty, impressively complex and intense as hell; just tipped too far in a direction not the brewers' intent. Drinkable enough, for all-a-that. I'll probably give these folks a second chance, at some point.
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