Hope everyone is enjoying their lives
today,
Despite being back in the hunt for
employment again, my day was fairly productive and enjoyable.
Starting the day off with a hearty breakfast, half a pot of coffee,
and a cigar or two, I got back to the task of submitting resumes for
employment, and even found a moment or two to work on Intoxico,
making a banner, a graphic for a linkshare project, and a new
background.
I feel that as long as I keep busy and
make effective use of this downtime to develop the site, and myself,
good things will happen.
To celebrate my fruitful afternoon, I
am unwinding with New Belgium's Belgo, a “Belgian Style IPA.”
Decanting the beverage, it pours out a
hyper clear orange with just oodles and oodles of active carbonation.
Tiny bubbles scurry to the top of the beverage and converge atop a
decent, creamy, orange hued head that sits about a silver dollar's
width atop the drink. The lacing is impressive, and just shy of awe
inspiring
The aroma wafting from the freshly
poured beverage suggests balance between both the Belgian style, with
fruity, clove and banana malt essence, and the India Pale Ale style
with as a nice, crisp lemon hop nose.
The first sip of this medium bodied ale
carries the maltiness of a prototypical Belgian style beer, knocking
taste buds over with the same clove and banana profile that was on
the nose. Where a normal Belgian's malt forwardness tends to be
cloyingly sweet, this beer quickly develops a bitterness that cuts
through the fruitiness, adding both a floral and citrus back-end to
the beverage.
In summation, while there are
characteristics of this beer that speak to the quality of the
ingredients and skill that created this beverage, I feel the
execution has created a beer that suffers from dissonance that I find
hard to enjoy, as opposed to the harmony I assume they were trying to
bring with the two diverging styles.
Prost!
