Forget about Waldo, where’s James?
Here at COMDB we have enjoyed the art of the craft collectively with 12 different CA brews. Next to their dark and dangerous Origins of Darkness Imperial Stout which we survived, at 10.2% this is their highest ABV work of art to date that we have appraised. The can art is a 60’s Yellow Submarine Square Bob Sponge Pants art deco where’s Waldo fresco, only instead of Waldo you are looking for the artist James Carey.* Groovy.
After a hockey legend lager at 4% this triple 10.2 is a 180, a Collective Art of the craft special edition that’s no paint by numbers. Will this brew be as far out as the artwork on display? There is some 10.2% trepidation that precedes this tasting.
A golden pour with an orangish tinge, a pretty portrait of a powerful pint. No frame, just a slim white border of a head. Hoppy on the nose with no shortage of fruit to boot. A taste of juicy morphing into a hoppy slightly bitter with a juicy bitter aftertaste. The juicy is suppressing the boozy for now. It’s not as boozy as I expected for a triple, good news. More like a daily double than a terrible triple. Time for the big swig test, don’t try this at home, leave this risqué high ABV tasting technique to the professionals. There’s the triple trouble booze. Back to middlin’ quaffs for me. The juicy stood the test of taste and time, resulting in a surprisingly good high ABV triple. Maybe it left me a little fuzzy faced but with the fuzz crowding around a sideways smile.
CA tell us “This ain’t no ’80s power ballad” and I would agree. The first song that came to mind while I drank this brew was the 1969 rocker “Kick Out the Jams” by MC5.**
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