Smoldering Reveries Of Our Finest Hours
Burial Beer Co.

Canned on 10/15/24; consumed on 11/21/24

Pours an opaque, dingy gold hue capped with two fingers of fluffy, white foam; good head retention leaves a slim layer of cap, a large, frothy collar, and myriad sinewy spatter of webby lacing caked around the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens to grapefruit cleanliness into pineapple upside-down cake and a creamy lime underscore as accents of peach and apricot zest meander.

Taste offers a pineapple cream and cherry ester interplay for a familiar continuation of pineapple upside-down cake subtext; notes of grassiness and peach zest support, while grapefruit pith brings a distant contrast to sweeter resins into the back end of the profile.

Mouthfeel presents a moderate body and modest fluff of carbonation, with creamy texturing meeting slick resins to peak over a glossy mid-palate; ginger bitterness on the back end settles to a distantly sticky finish.

Overwrought sweetness refined by a drying, resinous contrast, just shy of excess wispy a fair layer of nuance remains.

A - Pours a hazy orange with a thin white head. Good amount of soapy lacing.

S - Aroma is mango, tangerine, overripe pineapple and resinous hops.

T - The taste is candied orange, mango, pineapple, ruby red grapefruit and a dank hop bite.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a soft dry finish.

O - Really solid TRIPA. Pretty easy drinking for being 10%.

Slightly less than fully opaque, yet glowing yellow-orange, under a khakis foam head of moderate height, level, but with large cavities.

Tropical cocktail leads with pineapple and curacao accented by hibiscus and maybe mint. The finish has a little hint of the heavier malt needed for the booze, nearing toffee biscuit, while still somehow avoiding toasty or caramelly qualities.

It's surprisingly delicious for the ABV.