Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Un*Earthly
Explosively, searingly bitter to open: Grapefruity citrus smeared with resinous pine; floral-grassy threads woven in. Bready sweetness emerges momentarily around the middle, with streaks of caramel and maybe toast; then, a transition to quickly and steeply dry.
Medium-bodied, a little dense and a lot resinous-syrupy-sticky; moments of chewiness. Eventually drying and surprisingly refreshing, tending toward cleansing and scrubbing. The 9.6% ABV is scarily well-hidden.
A delicious Double IPA: I'm pretty sure it was the first I ever had in the style (probably why it's almost a go-to beer for me). Giddily intense and complex, madly unbalanced (right for the style), but posed and graceful and gloriously well-integrated. Definitely fresher than the last one of these I had (and better for it), and a beer I need to drink more often.
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| Southern Tier Un*Earthly |
Explosively, searingly bitter to open: Grapefruity citrus smeared with resinous pine; floral-grassy threads woven in. Bready sweetness emerges momentarily around the middle, with streaks of caramel and maybe toast; then, a transition to quickly and steeply dry.
Medium-bodied, a little dense and a lot resinous-syrupy-sticky; moments of chewiness. Eventually drying and surprisingly refreshing, tending toward cleansing and scrubbing. The 9.6% ABV is scarily well-hidden.
A delicious Double IPA: I'm pretty sure it was the first I ever had in the style (probably why it's almost a go-to beer for me). Giddily intense and complex, madly unbalanced (right for the style), but posed and graceful and gloriously well-integrated. Definitely fresher than the last one of these I had (and better for it), and a beer I need to drink more often.
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