First tasting at the Foundry in KC above.
2nd tasting at home. Notice the remarkable difference in colour. Some is lighting, but wow.
Brewery:
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Aroma:
Piney resin aroma, like sap covered pine needles.
My second taste I got a lot more floral notes with sweetness. I don’t know if I was drunk the first time or what.
Appearance:
Colour is picture perfect. Bright amber pours with a nice head that settles to a white rim.
Flavor:
The beer starts with its lovely aroma. First drink you receive a warming malt body (i attribute to alcohol and a perfect malt bill). That soon starts to get slammed with bitterness and cabonation that finishes a perfect drink from start to finish. Throughout the drink you get to enjoy the beautiful aroma.
Mouthfeel:
Dry with some warming alcohol notes. Pleasant but low malt sweetness. Big bodied.
Overall Impression:
I log huge beers. This one is no exception. It is much bigger than I expected, like a double IPA. It seems they wanted to bring a lot of malt forward to balance the huge bitterness, but seems to have a warming big alcohol double IPA effect. Very good beer, almost better for winter time.
Wonderful whole hop beer.
Comments:
The beer was a challenge at the beer camp Sierra Nevada held. I would love to try this with one of Deschutes whole hop offerings.
Branding is weird. To me this could get branded as a winter warmer and I would drink it like crazy in December.
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