Saturday, January 30, 2016

Tooth and Nail: Truce

Warning, this is a seriously dangerous beer.  It's sweet, smooth, and strong so you definitely need to be careful when you give this a try.  They call it a Holiday Ale, and were making it and selling it mostly during the holidays so I had picked myself up a bottle.  As it's a 750 ml bottle and 8.75% I needed to dedicate an evening to drinking it, as I didn't figure I would be very productive afterwards!

It pours a cloudy brown colour, with a creamy brown head.  On the nose you can smell the malt, this is one malty beer!  When you first take a sip you get a fairly smooth, sweet, and fruity start, the label talks about fig and raisin flavour, as I don't eat a lot of figs and am not a fan of raisins I am not really in position to validate this, but it does taste of dried fruit.  As the sip progresses you get a really mellow and smooth yeasty and malty middle, very smooth and tastes a bit like fresh bread.  The hop presence only really shows up on the finish, as it finishes with noticeable but not overwhelming hops.  As I said in the intro, this is high test stuff, it's really smooth and easy to drink but at 8.75% you need to handle with care.

It may not be available anymore (sorry about that) but Tooth and Nail have a variety of beers for sale at their brewery/ brewpub at the corner of Irving Ave and Wellington West in Ottawa's up and coming Hintonburg neighbourhood.

Alc 8.75%

Rating: 4.5 steins

What you need to know

Website:
http://toothandnailbeer.com/

Brewery/Brewpub
3 Irving Ave.
Ottawa, ON

Twitter
@toothnailbeer

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/toothandnailbrewingcompany?fref=ts