An Education and a Beer

I return, yet again! This time baring great news: I have finally completed my time as a college student. Well, as an undergraduate student (now excuse me while I stare out into the void and ponder my next step in academia)....

Okay, whew, back. Yes, I have finished my degree and was lucky enough to have my parents join me in my beloved Raleigh, North Carolina. There was no better way to wrap up such an epic era of college brew-ha-ha-ness then at my dearest little pub - The Flying Saucer. And epic era ending calls for epic beer consumption. That night was not so much quantity (no, no, that would come the next night on my actual graduation day) as quality. After briefing my parents on the extensive list of beers,they offered to aid in the celebration by purchasing one of the best on the menu: Allagash Curieux. At $25 a 750 ml bottle, I would be need to be stripped of my newly acquired degree if turned down.


Now, let me just say that I am a boubon drinker. I am also, clearly,a beer drinker. These are two things that make me unbelievably happy. When you merge these two together, it's much like two unicorns making love and producing offspring of rainbows, sunshine and this very beer.
The pour was golden (as it very well should be) and produced a decent head with light lacing. The fact that this is Allagash's Tripel Ale aged eight weeks in Jim Beam barrels is evident in the aroma. The boubon influence is noted first in the smell, but not it is not overwhelming. The taste, oh my heavens... yeast with citrus and warm, vanilla like bourbon. This is a sipping beer, because the warmth of the bourbon taste might overwhelm some. Not me, of course, but some.

I did, however, read and midget's handful of reviews that denounced the strong presence of bourbon flavor and I have dubbed them pussies of the highest nature, whose blasphemous tongues should be stripped of all flavor sensing capabilities.

I have been spoiled and refuse to wait till I complete a Masters program for my next bottle. So, be sure to donate on paypal (on your right hand side of the screen) so that I can enjoy this experience again. Hell, or just come out and join me!

Cheers.