Permafrost
Burnside Brewing Co.

 

Burnt orange, slightly opaque with some floaties, and a hefty off white head with excellent retention and lace.

Sweet caramel and pungent citrus and pine. Had a bit of a home brew cookout smell to it.

Flavor has a good balance of caramel and citrus fruit. A little spruce tip action before the pine and dirty hop finish.

Medium full feel, kind of creamy and chewy. Sweet then very bitter and leaves a sticky residue.

Decent warmer. Unrefined feel to it, so fans of a raw, knitty gritty beer rejoice.

Cheers.

 

 

 

 

 

Had this with some spicy thai food was wonderful. Got better as it got a bit warmer..has a full flavor and thats what i look for. Creamy sweet slight hop warm finish...

 

 

A light reddish color with a nice white cap great carbonation. As with all Burnside beers looks awesome. The taste hits hard with citrus hops and a big malty sweetness. Very well balanced between sweet breadiness and bitter hop juiciness. Alcohol is warming indeed but we'll hidden

 

 

On tap. In a shaker glass.
A: clear, amber, with good amount of lacing.
S: honey sweet, slightly malty.
T: malty sweet, slightly longan flavor, medium to light bitterness. SemI-dry finish.
M: medium to full bodied. High carbonation. Very crisp.
O: Surprisingly got the same style yesterday to compare. I personally prefer this one to Elysian Bifrost. Very drinkable (despite its high alcohol content) and flavorful.

 

 

 

 

22oz bottle, a cool (no pun intended) new winter offering for we in the veritable midst of it right now, but duly south of any 'permafrost', as such.

This beer pours a fairly hazy, yet bright orange-brick amber hue, with three fingers of weakly foamy, and mostly bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent pockmarked iceberg shelf lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.

It smells of biscuity, crackery, and grainy caramel malt, muddled dark orchard fruit - maybe some raisin, maybe some dried cherry - a bit of bittersweet cocoa, a certain oily nuttiness, and even-keeled leafy, weedy, and citrusy hops. The taste is bready caramel malt, more strangely biscuity dry nuttiness, a sidling hot metallic booziness, some muddled dark fruitiness, and that obligatory West Coast toast to citrus and pine hoppiness.

The carbonation is a bit peppy and edgy overall, the fizzy and frothy essences not quite in rhythm, the body a solid medium weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, the normal intransigencies seemingly nonsensical at this juncture. It finishes barely off-dry, the biscuity malt still most certainly large and in charge, while the dark fruit and agreeable noble hops pay their respects.

Not exactly what I was expecting, apropos of nothing, of course, as my one previous exposure to this brewery is hardly a barometer for what we're talking about right now. Overall, this is very much like a boozed up (but quietly, of course) ESB, which is a very good thing in my world, all things not necessarily hop-frontal, full stop.