Tonight's beer:
Starts imposingly bitter (as so many of the IPA-ish beers I've been drinking lately tend to): musk and pine and grass, citrus—grapefruit and lime and orange—backed by melons and tropical fruits. Dark sweetness emerges quickly, dark bread and toast smeared with chocolate and molasses; coffee lurking around the edges. Slips easily to bracingly dry through a pretty quick finish.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, with a lot of carbonation. Scrubbing and cleansing and drying, wrapping up clean and powerfully refreshing. Some chewiness evolves to resinous-syrupy stickiness on the fringes.
I've had just a few beers from Foothills, and all of them have impressed greatly. This is a truly superb Black IPA. Intense and complex as hell, smooth and drinkable, wondrously well-integrated and a lot like balanced (given the constraints of the style). It's a beer that makes me want to travel to where Foothills have distro every winter. Yum.
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| Foothills Frostbite |
Starts imposingly bitter (as so many of the IPA-ish beers I've been drinking lately tend to): musk and pine and grass, citrus—grapefruit and lime and orange—backed by melons and tropical fruits. Dark sweetness emerges quickly, dark bread and toast smeared with chocolate and molasses; coffee lurking around the edges. Slips easily to bracingly dry through a pretty quick finish.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, with a lot of carbonation. Scrubbing and cleansing and drying, wrapping up clean and powerfully refreshing. Some chewiness evolves to resinous-syrupy stickiness on the fringes.
I've had just a few beers from Foothills, and all of them have impressed greatly. This is a truly superb Black IPA. Intense and complex as hell, smooth and drinkable, wondrously well-integrated and a lot like balanced (given the constraints of the style). It's a beer that makes me want to travel to where Foothills have distro every winter. Yum.
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