Tonight's beer: Avery Raja
Starts out with a blast of bitterness: musk and flowers, tropical fruits, citrus (grapefruit, lime, orange), pine and grass. A touch of pale bready sweetness emerges around the middle momentarily. Bitterness forcefully and rapidly reasserts itself, as the beer shifts strongly to dry.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness lingers. Rapidly drying, quickly refreshing. Clean and cleansing, almost scrubbing.
A helluva Double IPA, screamingly intense and amazingly complex. Poised and self-assured, but really not in the same universe as balanced. Scarily drinkable, with basically no warning of the 8% ABV. I had pretty high expectations for this (based on some distant memories of Majarajah) and it exceeded them.
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| Avery Raja |
Starts out with a blast of bitterness: musk and flowers, tropical fruits, citrus (grapefruit, lime, orange), pine and grass. A touch of pale bready sweetness emerges around the middle momentarily. Bitterness forcefully and rapidly reasserts itself, as the beer shifts strongly to dry.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, decently carbonated. Some resinous-syrupy stickiness lingers. Rapidly drying, quickly refreshing. Clean and cleansing, almost scrubbing.
A helluva Double IPA, screamingly intense and amazingly complex. Poised and self-assured, but really not in the same universe as balanced. Scarily drinkable, with basically no warning of the 8% ABV. I had pretty high expectations for this (based on some distant memories of Majarajah) and it exceeded them.
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