Reverend357
Reviewed
December 3, 2023 (edited December 15, 2023)
Next stop on the holiday tasting tour, Texas. I will admit, so far Balcones had one, exactly one offering that I genuinely liked, and this ain't it (I am a sucker for the True Blue Cask Strength).
Nose gives me a load of dark fruits, together with some hints of chocolate, particularly those rum plums encased in dark chocolate. That's my favorite part, those are delicious. There is also a hint of vanilla in here.
Taste, it reminds me of overspiced gingerbread, a spoonful of brown sugar, some dried fruits mixed into that, and a weird, bitter, almost hop like taste that I really do not enjoy as somebody who does not like beer at all. Weirdly, even though it has a higher ABV than yesterdays yellow spot, the alcohol burn is a lot less pronounced.
The aftertaste is a subtle dark chocolate note with a lot of malt underneath. And it also lasts for quite a bit. Not bad, the aftertaste is almost more enjoyable than the taste itself.
Not my favorite so far, but also not bad. A mediocre malt that has too much hype behind it thanks to its origins.
65.0
EUR
per
Bottle