Tonight's beer: Founders Redankulous
Opens with a blast of bitterness: flowers and musk and tropical fruits, threaded with melons and citrus, pine and grass. Bready sweetness through the middle evolves to something very juicy, with a thin smear of caramel alongside. Swings quickly to solidly dry.
Maybe a little thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some bready chewiness, then a layer of syrupy stickiness. Sharply drying, scrubbing and almost scouring; moves toward refreshing by the finish.
A big and delicious Imperial Red Ale, fro a brewer that just recently made it to Maryland (and I don't get to DC and/or VA to buy beer as often as I once did); happy to see 'em. Intense as hell and stupidly complex, nicely integrated but nothing like balanced—hop-bomb all the way. (To be clear and fair and honest, that's what it seems Founders were aiming at, here.) Distressingly drinkable, with roughly no hint of the 9.5% ABV. Yum.
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| Founders Redankulous |
Opens with a blast of bitterness: flowers and musk and tropical fruits, threaded with melons and citrus, pine and grass. Bready sweetness through the middle evolves to something very juicy, with a thin smear of caramel alongside. Swings quickly to solidly dry.
Maybe a little thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some bready chewiness, then a layer of syrupy stickiness. Sharply drying, scrubbing and almost scouring; moves toward refreshing by the finish.
A big and delicious Imperial Red Ale, fro a brewer that just recently made it to Maryland (and I don't get to DC and/or VA to buy beer as often as I once did); happy to see 'em. Intense as hell and stupidly complex, nicely integrated but nothing like balanced—hop-bomb all the way. (To be clear and fair and honest, that's what it seems Founders were aiming at, here.) Distressingly drinkable, with roughly no hint of the 9.5% ABV. Yum.
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