Tonight's beer: Hardywood Bourbon Barrel GBS
Lots of dark bittersweet chocolate, threaded with vanilla, molasses, ginger, cinnamon. Coffee lurks in the background. Dark bread, edged with caramel and toast. Earthy-peaty bitterness slips in toward the finish, as the beer struggles to dry out (and does, a little).
Thick and dense and smooth, some fine carbonation woven through. Coating and syrupy-sticky; eventually gently drying. Remarkably little alcohol presence given the 10.6% ABV.
Oh, wow. This is a truly magnificent stout. There is a lot going on in this beer, and the bourbon barrel aging could turn it into a hot mess, but it doesn't. Intense as heck, staggeringly complex; astonishingly well-integrated (even if "balanced" probably doesn't apply here). Distressingly drinkable.
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| Hardywood Bourbon Barrel GBS |
Lots of dark bittersweet chocolate, threaded with vanilla, molasses, ginger, cinnamon. Coffee lurks in the background. Dark bread, edged with caramel and toast. Earthy-peaty bitterness slips in toward the finish, as the beer struggles to dry out (and does, a little).
Thick and dense and smooth, some fine carbonation woven through. Coating and syrupy-sticky; eventually gently drying. Remarkably little alcohol presence given the 10.6% ABV.
Oh, wow. This is a truly magnificent stout. There is a lot going on in this beer, and the bourbon barrel aging could turn it into a hot mess, but it doesn't. Intense as heck, staggeringly complex; astonishingly well-integrated (even if "balanced" probably doesn't apply here). Distressingly drinkable.
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