Tonight's beer:
Opens steeply bitter, with layers of grapefruit and orange and pine and flowers; lemons and limes and grass around the edges. Pale-bready sweetness and maybe a touch of caramel through the middle, then the beer ricochets directly to dry.
On the light side of medium-bodied, with a decent amount of fine-prickly carbonation. Softly scrubbing, quickly drying and impressively refreshing.
It takes some nerve to call a beer "superb" on the label, but this one just about pulls it off. Intense and complex, not punishingly high-alcohol (just 6.3%). Composed and a lot like balanced, supple and graceful and wonderfully drinkable. Definitely worth the going (though there are other enjoyable things to do in Williamsburg).
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| Alewerks Superb IPA |
Opens steeply bitter, with layers of grapefruit and orange and pine and flowers; lemons and limes and grass around the edges. Pale-bready sweetness and maybe a touch of caramel through the middle, then the beer ricochets directly to dry.
On the light side of medium-bodied, with a decent amount of fine-prickly carbonation. Softly scrubbing, quickly drying and impressively refreshing.
It takes some nerve to call a beer "superb" on the label, but this one just about pulls it off. Intense and complex, not punishingly high-alcohol (just 6.3%). Composed and a lot like balanced, supple and graceful and wonderfully drinkable. Definitely worth the going (though there are other enjoyable things to do in Williamsburg).
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