Tonight's beer (in a startlingly apt blurry image): DC Brau On the Wings of Armageddon
Opens explosively bitter, searingly bright: lots of lemons, backed by grapefruit and lime; flowers and grass and pine in the structure; musk on the perimeter. Pale sweetness in the background: bread and honey, caramel and a hint of toast in the distance. Bitterness quickly reasserts itself, as the beer ricochets and caroms to abruptly and severely dry.
Medium-bodied, lots of carbonation. A bit of soft chewiness, thick smears of resinous-syrupy stickiness, then a slow and lingering descent to scrubbing and scouring and almost punishingly drying. Sizable alcohol payload (9.2% ABV) frighteningly well-hidden.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite Double IPAs, from a brewery very local to me; the fact I found it about as fresh as I've ever seen it, about three hours away in a resort-ish town, doesn't change any of that. Pungent and potent, a wild ride of bitterness, crazily complex and madly intense. Giddily unbalanced, but nicely integrated and distinctly poised. Devastatingly drinkable. A beer I'm always happy to find (and then buy).
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| DC Brau On the Wings of Armageddon |
Opens explosively bitter, searingly bright: lots of lemons, backed by grapefruit and lime; flowers and grass and pine in the structure; musk on the perimeter. Pale sweetness in the background: bread and honey, caramel and a hint of toast in the distance. Bitterness quickly reasserts itself, as the beer ricochets and caroms to abruptly and severely dry.
Medium-bodied, lots of carbonation. A bit of soft chewiness, thick smears of resinous-syrupy stickiness, then a slow and lingering descent to scrubbing and scouring and almost punishingly drying. Sizable alcohol payload (9.2% ABV) frighteningly well-hidden.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite Double IPAs, from a brewery very local to me; the fact I found it about as fresh as I've ever seen it, about three hours away in a resort-ish town, doesn't change any of that. Pungent and potent, a wild ride of bitterness, crazily complex and madly intense. Giddily unbalanced, but nicely integrated and distinctly poised. Devastatingly drinkable. A beer I'm always happy to find (and then buy).
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