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While visiting with a friend of Spindle's, he handed her a bottle of beer. "Try this," he tells her. "You'll like it! Just make sure you don't drink it cold. It tastes terrible cold!"
Advice appreciated and taken.
The Immortal is an India Pale Ale with a rather high-for-beer alcohol content of 6.3% by volume. It is "refreshing, hoppy and well-balanced", the label tells us. A "classic English style" that's got a "New World hop flavor and aroma."
What that means, exactly, I don't really know.
Now, I am not a beer drinker at the best of times. Spindle likes her brew, and is baffled by my inability to enjoy the stuff. I still like to try new beers, though, in hopes that one of these years, I'll discover the answer to why beer is such a popular drink. Perhaps this beer will be the one?
At first quaff, I thought for a moment that the answer had been found. As I first sipped, the ale was smooth and gently flavoured, and I dared to think, "wow! I might actually like thi..."
And then that "New World hop flavor" hit, stomping on my taste buds like a dry and bitter old geezer, gleefully shouting "psyche!"
Okay, so maybe it wasn't that bad.
It wasn't good, either. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to find anything, other then that first touch of ale on the tongue, that made it different from any other beer I've ever tried.
But what did Spindle think?
Not much either, it turns out. She was left with really nothing to say about it. It didn't look, smell or taste any different then any other IPA.
I suppose it's a good thing we didn't try it cold.
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