Power of suggestion, maybe, but I do get a flavor of berries up front. The high alcohol (9.5%) gives it a full-bodied, shimmering finish that isn’t quite the bitter bite you might expect from something this big and bold. It’s certainly not a bad beer, but I sort of feel like I should be more impressed by it. That “slight bitterness”—which is really just a polysyllabic euphemism for “dry”—becomes somewhat more pronouced as the beer warms, though this is not off-putting. I tried a second one against my better judgment, knowing that 9.5% might turn me into a drooling lunatic…but I couldn’t shake the feeling from the first one that this was something akin to a grown-up version of Six Foot Strawberry Blonde, which…and you know what?…looking back at it, I find that I have never posted about Six Foot Strawberry Blonde. But it’s much drier on the back end, even after it warms up. Again, not bad…just maybe a bit too ambitious.
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