Tonight's beer:
Opens pretty sweet: bread and caramel and toffee; threads of molasses and nuts and dried fruits. Baking spice and vanilla around the edges. Grassy bitterness, with hints of earth and peat, emerges past the middle through a pretty quick and dry finish.
Medium-bodied, with a good amount of prickly-fine carbonation. Some thin stickiness, evolving to pretty and mostly clean. Eventually cleansing and scrubbing, a lot like refreshing. A little boozy tingle, pretty subdued for 10% ABV.
A really tasty big beer—an ESB scaled up to Old Ale or maybe Barleywine size. Seems to sit more or less as an Old Ale as it is now. Intense as hell and quite complex, nicely balanced and superbly well-integrated. Impressively drinkable in a Big Sipping Beeer way. Pretty well-served by the year or so it spent in the bottle. With how local they are to me, I'm always happy to drink a good beer from Heavy Seas.
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| Heavy Seas 20 Year Storm |
Opens pretty sweet: bread and caramel and toffee; threads of molasses and nuts and dried fruits. Baking spice and vanilla around the edges. Grassy bitterness, with hints of earth and peat, emerges past the middle through a pretty quick and dry finish.
Medium-bodied, with a good amount of prickly-fine carbonation. Some thin stickiness, evolving to pretty and mostly clean. Eventually cleansing and scrubbing, a lot like refreshing. A little boozy tingle, pretty subdued for 10% ABV.
A really tasty big beer—an ESB scaled up to Old Ale or maybe Barleywine size. Seems to sit more or less as an Old Ale as it is now. Intense as hell and quite complex, nicely balanced and superbly well-integrated. Impressively drinkable in a Big Sipping Beeer way. Pretty well-served by the year or so it spent in the bottle. With how local they are to me, I'm always happy to drink a good beer from Heavy Seas.
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