Jonathan Piper » Coney Island http://www.jonathanpiper.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:27:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ Coney Island Human Blockhead http://www.jonathanpiper.com/2009/03/coney-island-human-blockhead/ http://www.jonathanpiper.com/2009/03/coney-island-human-blockhead/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:31:47 +0000 Jonathan http://www.jonathanpiper.com/?p=164 This is a really nice beer.  The color is a really beautiful, clear amber/red, with a very minimal, thin white head.  Putting your nose in the glass gives away the 10% ABV immediately – the smell of alcohol is strong in ths one.  Tasting is it a similar story.  There’s a really nice, somewhat chewy [...]]]> This is a really nice beer.  The color is a really beautiful, clear amber/red, with a very minimal, thin white head.  Putting your nose in the glass gives away the 10% ABV immediately – the smell of alcohol is strong in ths one.  Tasting is it a similar story.  There’s a really nice, somewhat chewy malt body with a good amount of sweetness.  Then there’s a touch of hoppy bitterness, but nothing too heavy.  And then it all finishes to a sort of caramel/alcohol residual flavor (not unlike, dare I say, SoCo, only, you know, good…).  It’s pretty drinkable – despite its high ABV, it feels like a fairly light beer, but I’ll say it’d definitely be best with some mildly sweet food to accompany it, like fruit or a light cookie/cake sort of thing.  Anything sweetier or heavier than that would overpower the fairly subtle sweetness of the beer.

All in all, 4 thumbs up.

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