Tonight's beer:
Opens caramel-sweet and laden with dried/candied fruits: dates and figs and cherries and plums. Bread and toast underneath, layered with smoke and vanilla and peat and earth. Slides readily to softly dry through the finish.
A little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied, with ample scrubbing carbonation. Bready chewiness becomes thick strands of syrupy stickiness. Wraps up gently dry. Virtually no evidence of the 9.6% ABV.
Egad. (Or maybe: Egad!) I'm a big fan of Wee Heavies, and this is one off the best I've had. Intense as hell, layers upon layers upon layers—staggeringly complex but balanced and poised and supple and graceful. Astonishingly (dangerously) drinkable. Yeah, I'm in the tank for these guys (Tank 7, I hope ...) but this really is a stupifyingly delicious beer.
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| Boulevard (Smokestack Series) Scotch on Scotch |
Opens caramel-sweet and laden with dried/candied fruits: dates and figs and cherries and plums. Bread and toast underneath, layered with smoke and vanilla and peat and earth. Slides readily to softly dry through the finish.
A little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied, with ample scrubbing carbonation. Bready chewiness becomes thick strands of syrupy stickiness. Wraps up gently dry. Virtually no evidence of the 9.6% ABV.
Egad. (Or maybe: Egad!) I'm a big fan of Wee Heavies, and this is one off the best I've had. Intense as hell, layers upon layers upon layers—staggeringly complex but balanced and poised and supple and graceful. Astonishingly (dangerously) drinkable. Yeah, I'm in the tank for these guys (Tank 7, I hope ...) but this really is a stupifyingly delicious beer.
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