Tonight's beer:
Starts with lots of fruity bitterness—citrus (oranges, limes, grapefruit) alongside melons and tropical fruits; flickers and flashes of grass and flowers and pine. Bread emerges quickly, layered with caramel and edged with toast; nuts and toffee, dates and figs lurk around the fringes. Thin wisps of treacle, peat, earth, spice. Long and shallow slope toward dry through and past the finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, dense but adequately carbonated. Thin chewiness turns to threads of resinous stickiness. Some boozy prickle and heat in the distance, pretty subdued for 11.5% ABV.
A tasty and brawny barleywine, hopped to within an inch of its life, in a classically American style. Intense as hell and bogglingly complex, heavily tilted toward the hops—but it's fresh—and it's poised and supple and graceful and gloriously well-integrated. Niftily drinkable. Definitely a beer with the stuff to age for a few years; and we have some that we'll keep around for a while.
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| 21st Amendment Lower de Boom (2016) |
Starts with lots of fruity bitterness—citrus (oranges, limes, grapefruit) alongside melons and tropical fruits; flickers and flashes of grass and flowers and pine. Bread emerges quickly, layered with caramel and edged with toast; nuts and toffee, dates and figs lurk around the fringes. Thin wisps of treacle, peat, earth, spice. Long and shallow slope toward dry through and past the finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, dense but adequately carbonated. Thin chewiness turns to threads of resinous stickiness. Some boozy prickle and heat in the distance, pretty subdued for 11.5% ABV.
A tasty and brawny barleywine, hopped to within an inch of its life, in a classically American style. Intense as hell and bogglingly complex, heavily tilted toward the hops—but it's fresh—and it's poised and supple and graceful and gloriously well-integrated. Niftily drinkable. Definitely a beer with the stuff to age for a few years; and we have some that we'll keep around for a while.
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