Tonight's beer: Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Opens with a thick smear of dark chocolate; supporting layers close to the surface of coffee and toast and vanilla and caramel. Dark dried/candied fruits (plums and cherries, mainly) in the interstices. Peat and earth and maybe grass emerge around the finish. Richly and thickly bittersweet from start to sweet; doesn't dry out more than a very little bit.
A bit on the thick side, but not as unrelentingly so as one might expect from a big stout. Surprisingly smooth, decently carbonated. Threads of syrupy stickiness linger. Some hints of boozy prickle and heat, very subdued and well-hidden for 9.6% ABV.
A big and chocolate-laden stout, crazily intense and shockingly complex. Probably not really balanced (or even "balanced") but nicely integrated, poised, supple, graceful. Distressingly drinkable. The other beers I've had from Foothills have been very nice, but this is operating on a whole other plane, I think. Pretty amazing.
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| Foothills Sexual Chocolate |
Opens with a thick smear of dark chocolate; supporting layers close to the surface of coffee and toast and vanilla and caramel. Dark dried/candied fruits (plums and cherries, mainly) in the interstices. Peat and earth and maybe grass emerge around the finish. Richly and thickly bittersweet from start to sweet; doesn't dry out more than a very little bit.
A bit on the thick side, but not as unrelentingly so as one might expect from a big stout. Surprisingly smooth, decently carbonated. Threads of syrupy stickiness linger. Some hints of boozy prickle and heat, very subdued and well-hidden for 9.6% ABV.
A big and chocolate-laden stout, crazily intense and shockingly complex. Probably not really balanced (or even "balanced") but nicely integrated, poised, supple, graceful. Distressingly drinkable. The other beers I've had from Foothills have been very nice, but this is operating on a whole other plane, I think. Pretty amazing.
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