Une bonne tuerie 😉 espagnole.

Nightcap. End of weekend. Fortunately, next week is a vacation. Days full of renovation ahead... 🪚📐🔨 Now the beer. A peat smoked IS. Muddy black. Limited carbonation. A tawny velvety head falls short of two fingers and declines soon to a neat lace ring. Peat, smoke, roasted malt and licorice enter my nose first. Molasses and a hint of brown sugar complete the olfactory journey. Peat, licorice root, smoked malt, soot, brown sugar, sweet dough, biscuit and remote plum. That's the gustatory universe of this beer. A relatively rich series of components. The body is medium to medium-full. However, I expected more since this clocks 12 %. The finish releases part of the initial sweetness and lifts the smoky peatiness upward. Feels medium-full, deep, intense, relatively rich, smoky and lip-glueing. Tasty but nothing phenomenal at this strength level.

My late night dinner accompaniment shows a transparent, deep dark burned umber complexion with a distinct ruby tint. Timid carbonation with a hasty fizzy sound. A woolly beige head reaches maximum half a finger but remains as a neat lace ring on the top. The scent is fairly impotent irrespective of the temperature but a neat set of elements can still be captured: date, raisin, brandy, cane sugar, a pinch of purple grape and faint licorice. Not bad although a tad closed. The team of dried plum, date, brandy and cane sugar wins the race this time. A good slam of licorice kicks ass in the background. Somewhat raw and aggressive. The body is light-medium to medium. The finish is equally bold as upfront with elevated amounts of brandy, licorice and cane sugar. The beer leaves a raw, deep, intense, alcoholic and warming sensation on the tongue. Lip-glueing but surely not desserty. A slow sipper.