Tonight's beer:
Piercingly bitter to start: grass and flowers and pine, hints of pithy citrus. Pale bread and crackers right behind, with grace notes of honey and nuts.Transitions sharply to imposingly dry.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with plenty of carbonation. Thick chewiness turns to lingering sheets of stickiness, eventually breaks free; gradually clean, cleansing, scrubbing, drying and refreshing. Very little indication of the 9% ABV.
A tasty beer, somewhere in the area of a Helles Doppelbock or Imperial Pilsner; big and brawny but graceful and supple; kinda idiosyncratic as a Christmas beer (though there is Samiclaus ...). Intense as hell and nicely complex (not particularly rectilinear the way some pale lagers are), nicely integrated and impressively well-balanced. Alarmingly drinkable. The whole Krampus thing is maybe getting overplayed now, and I'm indisputably a Southern Tier fanboy, but still I'm happy to buy and drink this beer every year. Or as close to every year as I can manage.
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| Southern Tier Krampus |
Piercingly bitter to start: grass and flowers and pine, hints of pithy citrus. Pale bread and crackers right behind, with grace notes of honey and nuts.Transitions sharply to imposingly dry.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with plenty of carbonation. Thick chewiness turns to lingering sheets of stickiness, eventually breaks free; gradually clean, cleansing, scrubbing, drying and refreshing. Very little indication of the 9% ABV.
A tasty beer, somewhere in the area of a Helles Doppelbock or Imperial Pilsner; big and brawny but graceful and supple; kinda idiosyncratic as a Christmas beer (though there is Samiclaus ...). Intense as hell and nicely complex (not particularly rectilinear the way some pale lagers are), nicely integrated and impressively well-balanced. Alarmingly drinkable. The whole Krampus thing is maybe getting overplayed now, and I'm indisputably a Southern Tier fanboy, but still I'm happy to buy and drink this beer every year. Or as close to every year as I can manage.
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