Tonight's beer:
Coffee. Lots of Coffee. Strong dark coffee. Chocolate woven ion. Toast and vanilla right behind. Dark bread, brown sugar/molasses/maple through the middle for a moment. Distant flickering bitterness: earth, peat, grass, ash, smoke. Wraps up steeply dry.
Just a little thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some chewiness and thin syrupy stickiness. Slowly drying through a lingering finish. No real alcohol presence.
Starts out as a definite coffee-bomb, almost on a level with Péché Mortel; eventually moderates a bit. I have to believe that fresh (this beer has been in the bottle almost a year) it would like to take off the top of my head.
Intense and complex as heck, pretty well-integrated but not in the same universe as balanced, really. Nicely graceful and supple, with the 8.4% ABV carried lightly and almost invisibly. Nicely drinkable, if definitely a sipping beer.
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| Alewerks Café Royale |
Coffee. Lots of Coffee. Strong dark coffee. Chocolate woven ion. Toast and vanilla right behind. Dark bread, brown sugar/molasses/maple through the middle for a moment. Distant flickering bitterness: earth, peat, grass, ash, smoke. Wraps up steeply dry.
Just a little thicker than medium-bodied, nicely carbonated. Some chewiness and thin syrupy stickiness. Slowly drying through a lingering finish. No real alcohol presence.
Starts out as a definite coffee-bomb, almost on a level with Péché Mortel; eventually moderates a bit. I have to believe that fresh (this beer has been in the bottle almost a year) it would like to take off the top of my head.
Intense and complex as heck, pretty well-integrated but not in the same universe as balanced, really. Nicely graceful and supple, with the 8.4% ABV carried lightly and almost invisibly. Nicely drinkable, if definitely a sipping beer.
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