Midnight Sun Lust

Formerly brewed at Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Brownish pour. Bourbon, cherries, vanilla, oak, brown sugar, tart apples, earthy funk and fruity esters. Flavor is really nice. Sweet bourbon, tart cherries, apples, funk from the brett, and finishes earthy and dry. Nice!!

Pours a deep black with a smaller bubbly creamy tan head that left some lacing. Aroma of cherry, floral, oak, a tart funkiness, some earthiness and a touch of bourbon. Flavor of Belgian yeast, vanilla, banana, sticky malt sweetness, caramel, floral, some toasted malts, some bourbon and oak and a touch of roastiness. Light funkiness.

Pours opaque dark brown, with barely a trace of light peering through the base of the glass. A lively, two-inch tan head frothed up and floated for several minutes. The sticky foam relented slowly, revealing plenty of clingy lacework. Aromatics are where this beer is at. Dark rum-soaked raisins,cocoa nubs, oaky tannins, bourbon, vineous fruit, and very light, drying horseblanket. Phenols blend nicely with the bourbon fusels, and vanilla follows through. Mouthfeel is medium and creamy. Slightly chewy, but still light enough to keep the brew from being overbearing. The pallet is rummy and fruity, with plenty of bourbon. Cocoa-dusted raisins form the base, with layers of dark caramel, whisky, red wine, toasted oak, and vanilla. The cherries do not have a large presence, but add a wonderfull complexity. No funk yet to speak of, as the brett will take a while to do it’s job. Finishes with a lingering vineous complexity, warming bourbon, and dark fruit.

Bottle at Logan’s Pre-GABF Party 2009. Thanks to the generous soul from Alaska, whoever he may be, that brought this but didn’t turn it over to the folks running the event, thereby allowing me to get a good few ounces of this stuff. Sweet, fruity, lightly tart aroma, evident chocolate and cherry, along with suggestions of roasty, espresso maltiness, earth, wood and some mild funk from the Brett, very complex and enjoyable. Dark, opaque red-brown color with a lasting, ivory head. Flavor is also gently tart and fruity, with a very good balance maintained through between the rich malty sweetness and drying effects of the yeast, with suggestions of dark chocolate, oak, cherry, vanilla, some background yeast of both spicy and funk varieties, and gently warming alcohol fading through at the end. Some lingering Brett character late. Smoothly effervescent and full on the palate, body is generous. I had never heard of this prior to the tasting, and am now a little saddened to learn that my odds of running across it again are next to nothing. Extremely good.

22oz bottle shared courtesy of TomDecapolis. Poured a deeper and muddy borwn color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of wood, vanilla, dark fruits, cherries, vanilla, bourbon, and very light brett. Tastes of vanilla, wood, dark cherries, bourbon, and oak. Midnight Sun really knows how to do barrel aging!

Bottle thanks to timmcd64, sampled on 2/1/08: Pours a transparent dark mahogany with ruby hues and a wispy-lacing dark tan head. Aroma of dry woodsy earthy vanilla with some black cherries and faint funk and corn starch. Starts fairly full and earthy dark caramely sweet with some nice oaky bourbon complexity and black cherry balance. The brett hasn’t made its presence too well known yet, but should only increase the comlexity of this brew in the future.

Poured a dark brown color with a small beige head. Tart fruity cherry aroma. Some vanilla, chocolate and brown sugar. The flavor had nice complexity as well. Sweet and and tart at the same time. Chocolate, cherry, caramel, bourbon and vanilla. Very warming. Great stuff.

Bottle from kryptic. Pours dark brown, with a brown head. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, cherries, other dark fruit, and some alcohol. Flavor is bourbon, vanilla, wood, dark fruit, bitter chocolate, and malt. This is really nice, far above average, but more sweetness would have really have made this truly amazing