Unplugged Smoked Rye Ale
A- Easy to see through, tons of carbonation, tons of sticky lacing, great retention, lots of carbonation. Simple vision of cola liquid well done. S- Strong pork aroma coming from what is ultimately a perfect strength of smell. It bursts with that leather, fried pork, and rye spice. The back end is dominated with the aroma caraway seeds and ground rye. Subtle, strong, and gentle all at once. Most smoked beers let the pork aromas rise into the stratosphere on leather rockets leaving you gagging for air. This captured it perfectly. T- Starting flavor of fried pork, hickory wood smoke, mesquite like, and football leather. Middle ground is a bit sweet, but the leather takes on a new form. Its now like sucking on a piece of hickory with a slight charring of the wood. Unfortunately this is nauseating and harms the overall flavor profile. At least the finish is calmed down. It is principally just wood smoke and bacon. Tasty. We go from intriguingly nommy to vomit-inducing to tasty. Roller coaster of doom. M- That unfortunate second verse of flavors truly disappoints and brings me to drop it down from what could have been an awesome score. It has a light carbonation giving it the crispness it needs on the backend. It is sticky enough to not be transient flavors. It is full of body. But it just can't overcome that memory of woodchip gagging. D- I like it, but I probably will never seek it out again. Great landscape, lovely breeze, but things turn for worse as a flash flood destroys what started beautiful.