This afternoon's beer: Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Blackbeard's Breakfast (2015)
Starts out with strong dark coffee, backed by sturdy caramel, molasses, maple. Vanilla weaves in and out along the edges, dodging dark fruits (mostly dates and figs, maybe cherries and plums) and baking spices (allspice, cloves, ginger, cinnamon). Earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness emerges momentarily around the end, as the beer inches toward dry, with implications of tart.
Surprisingly light-bodied for such a big, dark beer, with the 10% ABV roughly nowhere to be found. Decent carbonation keeps the pretty substantial stickiness from overstaying its welcome. Hints of chewiness through the middle. Wraps up gently dry and surprisingly like unto refreshing.
A big and beautiful imperial porter (that amazingly doesn't feel at all stouty), laden with coffee flavor that i have to believe has moderated and modulated and maybe receded in the year-ish it's been in the bottle. Wonderfully well-balanced and -integrated, crazily complex and imposingly intense. Staggeringly drinkable. A superb beer for working around the place, indoors, on a dank and drizzly and otherwise entirely cruddy day.
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| Heavy Seas (Uncharted Waters) Blackbeard's Breakfast (2015) |
Starts out with strong dark coffee, backed by sturdy caramel, molasses, maple. Vanilla weaves in and out along the edges, dodging dark fruits (mostly dates and figs, maybe cherries and plums) and baking spices (allspice, cloves, ginger, cinnamon). Earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness emerges momentarily around the end, as the beer inches toward dry, with implications of tart.
Surprisingly light-bodied for such a big, dark beer, with the 10% ABV roughly nowhere to be found. Decent carbonation keeps the pretty substantial stickiness from overstaying its welcome. Hints of chewiness through the middle. Wraps up gently dry and surprisingly like unto refreshing.
A big and beautiful imperial porter (that amazingly doesn't feel at all stouty), laden with coffee flavor that i have to believe has moderated and modulated and maybe receded in the year-ish it's been in the bottle. Wonderfully well-balanced and -integrated, crazily complex and imposingly intense. Staggeringly drinkable. A superb beer for working around the place, indoors, on a dank and drizzly and otherwise entirely cruddy day.
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