Tonight's beer: The Lost Abbey Judgment Day
Starts out darkly fruity: raisins and prunes, hints of dried cherries and figs and dates. Caramel and dark bread slide in through the middle, with threads of chocolate, toffee, nuts.Baking spices—cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon—around the edges. Wisps of earthy-grassy bitterness, tobacco, smoke in the distance, wrapped in vanilla and brandy and rum.
Pretty light-bodied, with lots of fine, dense carbonation. A moment of chewiness, a thin trace of stickiness; quickly lean, cleansing, drying, refreshing. Roughly no hint of the 10.5% ABV.
Wow. This beer lives up to The Lost Abbey's typical high standards when it comes to Belgian Styles: staggeringly intense and complex, gloriously well-balanced and superbly integrated. Terrifyingly drinkable, appropriately supple and subtle and graceful. A unnecessary reminder of why I usually buy these folks' beers when I find them.
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| The Lost Abbey Judgment Day |
Starts out darkly fruity: raisins and prunes, hints of dried cherries and figs and dates. Caramel and dark bread slide in through the middle, with threads of chocolate, toffee, nuts.Baking spices—cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon—around the edges. Wisps of earthy-grassy bitterness, tobacco, smoke in the distance, wrapped in vanilla and brandy and rum.
Pretty light-bodied, with lots of fine, dense carbonation. A moment of chewiness, a thin trace of stickiness; quickly lean, cleansing, drying, refreshing. Roughly no hint of the 10.5% ABV.
Wow. This beer lives up to The Lost Abbey's typical high standards when it comes to Belgian Styles: staggeringly intense and complex, gloriously well-balanced and superbly integrated. Terrifyingly drinkable, appropriately supple and subtle and graceful. A unnecessary reminder of why I usually buy these folks' beers when I find them.
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