Well, after a busy week at work, Friday is finally here. Looking
forward to a weekend full of Rahr and Sons’ beer, tomorrow being the
anniversary of their roof collapse during a freak snowstorm in 2010. They will
be having festivities, including a run for people without the common sense to
drive cars, and their brewery tour, which is one of the best ways to spend a
weekend afternoon in Cowtown with the missus.
Partly to celebrate the coming of the weekend, and partly to
get this done before I am ravaged by a cold that is knocking at my door, I am
popping the top off of an Ass Kisser Double IPA by Ass Kisser Ales (although
brewed under contract by Rahr And Sons’ of Fort Worth, TX.)
Pouring the bomber into an imperial pint glass, the beer
settles and reveals a dark orange hued beverage that is as cloudy as it is full
of agitated, tiny bubbles of carbonation. A
wonderfully frothy, off-white head is formed, and as the beer goes down my
gullet, stays true, and creates a well-defined striation of lacing on the sides
of its vessel.
The nose of this libation is full of spicy hop notes, backed
up by a warm, yeast, or biscuit like aroma.
As the first sip of this fermentable mingles with my taste
buds and my moustache, nice, pointed floral hop bitterness is enjoyed. As the
tartness subsides, a nice caramel malt backend gives the beer a pleasant
grapefruit and tangerine body. This flavor is wrapped in a velvet mouthfeel
that dries out as it’s consumed.
Tomorrow, barring a freak internet outage I should be
uploading a review of Rahr and Sons’ 2012 Snowmageddon. Until then, keep
drinking!
Prost!
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