Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Backburner
Opens with a wave of dark sweetness: caramel and toast, layered with maple syrup and molasses/brown sugar; bread fills in as structure. Earthy-grassy bitterness appears around the edges and in the interstices. Hints of peat and smoke and tobacco in the distance. Threads of dried/candied dark fruits.
Somewhat thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation a little thin but adequate. Soft and chewy, thick and viscous and distinctly sticky. Eventually gently drying, moving almost-reluctantly toward clean and refreshing. Remarkably little boozy heat or prickle for 10.5% ABV.
Without question, a malt-bomby barleywine, definitely more in the English style/tradition, tasty and delicious. Intense and complex, poised and supple and wonderfully well-integrated, tilted strongly toward the sweet. Lots going on, here, and plenty of substance to age a while, I think.
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| Southern Tier Backburner |
Opens with a wave of dark sweetness: caramel and toast, layered with maple syrup and molasses/brown sugar; bread fills in as structure. Earthy-grassy bitterness appears around the edges and in the interstices. Hints of peat and smoke and tobacco in the distance. Threads of dried/candied dark fruits.
Somewhat thicker than medium-bodied, carbonation a little thin but adequate. Soft and chewy, thick and viscous and distinctly sticky. Eventually gently drying, moving almost-reluctantly toward clean and refreshing. Remarkably little boozy heat or prickle for 10.5% ABV.
Without question, a malt-bomby barleywine, definitely more in the English style/tradition, tasty and delicious. Intense and complex, poised and supple and wonderfully well-integrated, tilted strongly toward the sweet. Lots going on, here, and plenty of substance to age a while, I think.
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