Tonight's beer: 21st Amendment Lower De Boom (canned 12/2015)
Opens with a burst of almost-juicy citrussy-piny bitterness, rapidly moderated by caramel-toasty-bready sweetness. Threads of flowers and grass and maybe musk, possibilities of dates and figs and other dark-ish fruits (dried and candied); a ghost of butter in the distance. Gradually, pretty dry.
Bready-soft and chewy, maybe a bit thicker than medium-bodied. Decently carbonated. Some soft stickiness lingers, into a long and sloping and eventually drying finish. Dim and distant hints of the 11.5% ABV.
A pretty amazing barleywine, pretty thoroughly American (those hops are too far forward to be anything else, really). Absolutely tons of flavor, here: intense as hell and staggeringly complex; wonderfully well-integrated and something pretty close to balanced. Astonishingly drinkable, supple and graceful. We have some of this set aside to age, and it should be awesome.
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| 21st Amendment Lower De Boom (canned 12/2015) |
Opens with a burst of almost-juicy citrussy-piny bitterness, rapidly moderated by caramel-toasty-bready sweetness. Threads of flowers and grass and maybe musk, possibilities of dates and figs and other dark-ish fruits (dried and candied); a ghost of butter in the distance. Gradually, pretty dry.
Bready-soft and chewy, maybe a bit thicker than medium-bodied. Decently carbonated. Some soft stickiness lingers, into a long and sloping and eventually drying finish. Dim and distant hints of the 11.5% ABV.
A pretty amazing barleywine, pretty thoroughly American (those hops are too far forward to be anything else, really). Absolutely tons of flavor, here: intense as hell and staggeringly complex; wonderfully well-integrated and something pretty close to balanced. Astonishingly drinkable, supple and graceful. We have some of this set aside to age, and it should be awesome.
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