Cascade Ale Tasting

Good times!  Tasting some of my favorite sour Ales down @ the brew supply.

Bottleworks 13 Photo

This is the photo that was supposed to accompany the previous post. Stupid phone.

Bottleworks 13th Anniversary Ale

Brewed for Bottleworks by Stone brewing of San Diego.

13 malts 13 hops, but "only" 11%abv.

Pours almost black with a thick tan head.

Aroma is alcohol and rich malt aromas with some toffee and black licorice notes.

Flavor is initially dominated by roast malt, chocolate, and smokey peat malts.  As the beer warms strong alcohol notes come to the front, and with the smokey peat bring a scotch whisky profile to prominence.

Mouthfeel is thick and creamy with a bunch of alcohol warmth.  Finishes with a strong lingering coffee-like bitterness.

A very big, very interesting strong ale.

Winning!

Oh yeah!  First place Belgian Dark Strong ale (qualifying us for the national masters championship) and two second places with our Northern English Brown ale and Baltic Porter.  Not too shabby!