Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Back Burner
Lots of dark sweetness: maple and molasses and caramel, on deeply-toasted bread. Earthy-peaty bitterness arises through the middle, lingers in to a pretty slow and gradual finish. Hints of vanilla and baking spice around the edges. The beer dries out some, eventually, but it's mostly sweet by the end.
Pretty soft and chewy, carbonation maybe a little sparse but adequate. Some syrupy stickiness lingering into a long and casual finish. Gently drying, maybe a little warming, but no real alcohol presence—especially given the 10.5% ABV.
A delicious malt-bomb of a barleywine, something of a counterpoint to all the IPAs in my beer fridges. As intense as one would expect from a beer this big, but smooth and graceful and supple; remarkably complex and balanced and poised. Alarmingly drinkable. Probably I was in the mood for a beer tilted toward sweet tonight, and this fit the bill exactly.
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| Southern Tier Back Burner |
Lots of dark sweetness: maple and molasses and caramel, on deeply-toasted bread. Earthy-peaty bitterness arises through the middle, lingers in to a pretty slow and gradual finish. Hints of vanilla and baking spice around the edges. The beer dries out some, eventually, but it's mostly sweet by the end.
Pretty soft and chewy, carbonation maybe a little sparse but adequate. Some syrupy stickiness lingering into a long and casual finish. Gently drying, maybe a little warming, but no real alcohol presence—especially given the 10.5% ABV.
A delicious malt-bomb of a barleywine, something of a counterpoint to all the IPAs in my beer fridges. As intense as one would expect from a beer this big, but smooth and graceful and supple; remarkably complex and balanced and poised. Alarmingly drinkable. Probably I was in the mood for a beer tilted toward sweet tonight, and this fit the bill exactly.
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