Kuohkea 3 sormen paksuinen vaahto kastanjan ruskeassa sameassa, virkistävässä ja kuivaavassa oluessa. Greippinen vahva maku, todella raikas ja alkoholikaan ei tule yhtään läpi. Hedelmäinen ja raikas.

Kuohkea 3 sormen paksuinen vaahto ruskeassa sameassa, virkistävässä ja kuivaavassa oluessa. Kuiva, greippiä isosti, loppuun vähäsen makeuttakin. Aika rapsakka ja vahvan tuntuinen muutoinkin, humaloinnissa ei kyllä ole säästelty. Humalamainen ja sitrusmainen.

This is the first Duo Ryan and I have had in a long time. So proud of him for the weight he has lost by controlling his diet so efficiently. But it put a huge dent in our Duo beers. Tonight we're sharing a Martin House beer he brought to me. An unusual whiskey barrel ale with fruit. Should be interesting. Beautiful reddish orange color with a steady whispy Haze. Aroma gives you a stone fruit along with a punch of aromatic woodsy alcohol. Gives you a sweet whiskey and probably prune sensation. Texture is soft and it is accompanied by a strong effervescence in the mouth. Each sip seems to create small bubbles on the tongue. Flavor is extraordinary, this is strong. Some beers are good at hiding their alcohol content. Not this one. It's 13.8% actually reminds me more of some of the 17% beers I've had before. Plenty of punch there. It starts soft with a barrel aged whiskey and it's dark stone fruit flavors. Only during the finish do I get that sweet papaya on the back of my tongue, briefly, then it's overwhelmed again. The finish again changes the texture from soft to what I call crisp. What I love about having a Duo with Ryan, besides getting to speak with my daughter, is bouncing these flavors back and forth between us. His palate is extraordinary. But when he used the word "angry" for this flavor, that was perfect! It is angry. Comes at you hard, unapologetic, and throws it's flavor right at you. Somehow it is still subtle in it's delivery, like, "Here I am, take it or leave it". Once you accept this calm assault, and you give into it, you begin to love this method. It's unique, it's bold, and I enjoyed it very much.

Gout de cornichon présent, c'est juste pour ça l'étoile sinon à éviter

Found this Martin House that was brewed in February of 2021 in the back of my beer stash. Forgot I had it so I hope it's still good, at 10% it should be. Very small head, short-lived. Strong aroma is giving me peanut butter from the jar, and no hint of the 10% alcohol. Also has a bit of a sweet caramel to the aroma. Texture is in the mid-range, not thick or heavy. Toward the middle I do get just the smallest alcohol sting. It's nondescript, not whiskey, not bourbon. As the finish arrives I get a whiff, and I mean just a tiny whiff, of milk chocolate. What I'm not getting, thankfully, is artificial. I strongly suspect that it is, but in this case they have hidden it well. This is not one of Martin Houses greatest beers. But a nice dessert Stout at the end of a hard day is just what I wanted.

A nice thicc imperial stout, with faint peanut butter and faint coconut on the backend.

Another Martin House Brewing beer for Ryan and I to Duo. An Imperial sour? It's 12% and it's grape that sat 7 months in a wine barrel. What could go wrong? Went into the glass without much fanfare, almost no head and that disappeared. Very murky color that almost look like a tequila sunrise. Held to the light it's orange on the top and bottom and maroon in the middle. Beautiful. Aroma was pure white wine, Chardonnay character. First sip gives you a red barley wine, pretty good. It's also very acidic on the tongue. You slowly get some white wine and hidden late is a tiny grape flavor. The finish leaves the mouth feeling coarse. They tout this as a grape ale, I don't get that. It's way in the background. The acidity on the second and third sips is becoming much too strong. It seems so unbalanced with the barley wine flavor. We knew it's a sour but neither one of us really want to finish this now. That's a shame.