Tonight's beer:
Opens darkly, richly sweet: dried/candied dark fruits—cherries, figs, plums, dates, red grapes—buried in caramel and dark bread and toast. Vanilla, rum, brandy, molasses around the edges. Flickers of baking spice (cloves, allspice, caramel, star anise), earth, peat around the finish as the beer slants toward dryish.
On the lightish side of medium-bodied, with a good amount of scrubbing carbonation. Some thready-syrupy stickiness lingers into a slowly drying finish. Basically no trace of the 11% ABV.
After somewhere between a year and two sitting around the house, this is a superbly mellow beer—the time in the bottle has, at a minimum, done it no damage. Intense as hell and steeply complex, balanced and smooth and graceful. Gloriously drinkable. I almost always enjoy Weyerbacher's anniversary beers (there was at least one that was sour and featuring a fruit I don't like) and this is no exception, there. Yum.
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| Weyerbacher 20 |
Opens darkly, richly sweet: dried/candied dark fruits—cherries, figs, plums, dates, red grapes—buried in caramel and dark bread and toast. Vanilla, rum, brandy, molasses around the edges. Flickers of baking spice (cloves, allspice, caramel, star anise), earth, peat around the finish as the beer slants toward dryish.
On the lightish side of medium-bodied, with a good amount of scrubbing carbonation. Some thready-syrupy stickiness lingers into a slowly drying finish. Basically no trace of the 11% ABV.
After somewhere between a year and two sitting around the house, this is a superbly mellow beer—the time in the bottle has, at a minimum, done it no damage. Intense as hell and steeply complex, balanced and smooth and graceful. Gloriously drinkable. I almost always enjoy Weyerbacher's anniversary beers (there was at least one that was sour and featuring a fruit I don't like) and this is no exception, there. Yum.
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