Tonight's (first) beer: Flying Dog Naughty
Bready sweetness opens quickly, with caramel and toast layered on. Dark dried fruits flash past: cherries and grapes and plums, maybe figs and dates. Then, the heat arrives: it builds quickly and entirely subsumes all other flavors. When the heat clears a little, eventually, spice and earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness linger vaguely.
Pretty light-bodied, decently carbonated. A little bready-syrupy stickiness. Mainly hot. Not boozy-hot: capsaicin hot, looming and domineering.
This is a wonderful Belgian Strong Dark Ale with a thick layer of of peppery heat smeared on top, quickly becoming the primary (maybe the only) experience of the beer. Given that Flying Dog usually hit what they aim at, I have to believe that whoever came up with this is more of a hot-pepper-head than I am, by a long way (I don't use habaneros, but I do use a lot of peppers and hot sauce).
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| Flying Dog Naughty |
Bready sweetness opens quickly, with caramel and toast layered on. Dark dried fruits flash past: cherries and grapes and plums, maybe figs and dates. Then, the heat arrives: it builds quickly and entirely subsumes all other flavors. When the heat clears a little, eventually, spice and earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness linger vaguely.
Pretty light-bodied, decently carbonated. A little bready-syrupy stickiness. Mainly hot. Not boozy-hot: capsaicin hot, looming and domineering.
This is a wonderful Belgian Strong Dark Ale with a thick layer of of peppery heat smeared on top, quickly becoming the primary (maybe the only) experience of the beer. Given that Flying Dog usually hit what they aim at, I have to believe that whoever came up with this is more of a hot-pepper-head than I am, by a long way (I don't use habaneros, but I do use a lot of peppers and hot sauce).
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