Tonight's beer:
Opens imposingly bitter: syrupy pine and musky flowers quickly subsumed by pithy-juicy fruits: grapefruit, lime, orange, tropical fruits, melons. Pale bread momentarily breaks through around the middle, with maybe a hint of caramel; it recedes quickly into a long and sloping and dry and (again) very bitter finish.
Right around medium-bodied, with a good amount of scrubbing carbonation. Some soft chewiness rapidly evolves to slabs of syrupy stickiness. Gradually drying and cleansing and surprisingly refreshing. No hint or warning of the 9% ABV.
This is an astonishingly delicious Double IPA, from a pretty local brewery—and entirely unlike the cherry wheat beer I'd had from them, so it's nice to see they have some range. Crazily intense and complex, giddily unbalanced but well-integrated, graceful, drinkable. Beautiful label, nifty name, superb beer.
 |
| Oliver Beyond the Realm of Light |
Opens imposingly bitter: syrupy pine and musky flowers quickly subsumed by pithy-juicy fruits: grapefruit, lime, orange, tropical fruits, melons. Pale bread momentarily breaks through around the middle, with maybe a hint of caramel; it recedes quickly into a long and sloping and dry and (again) very bitter finish.
Right around medium-bodied, with a good amount of scrubbing carbonation. Some soft chewiness rapidly evolves to slabs of syrupy stickiness. Gradually drying and cleansing and surprisingly refreshing. No hint or warning of the 9% ABV.
This is an astonishingly delicious Double IPA, from a pretty local brewery—and entirely unlike the cherry wheat beer I'd had from them, so it's nice to see they have some range. Crazily intense and complex, giddily unbalanced but well-integrated, graceful, drinkable. Beautiful label, nifty name, superb beer.
Comments
Post a Comment