Saturday Breakfast Beer – Jubelale 2010
Jubelale 2010
When a former co-beer blogger wrote that Deschutes Brewing Company’s Abyss was like drinking a stack of pancakes, I immediately wanted to go have one for breakfast. Ever since I heard that, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of a breakfast beer review. They say your palate can change throughout the day, so I figure morning tasting could be just the ticket to learning even more about what tastes are going on in the beer.
And this has led me to starting a new feature post each Saturday called Breakfast Beer. Each week I’ll select a breakfast beer that I’ve tried on some other weekend and write it up from that perspective.
I realize Saturday has nearly ended here, but I wanted to write a brief note about a fantastic Saturday Breakfast Beer, which also happens to be from Deschutes Brewing Company. It’s the Jubelale 2010. Where Abyss is a huge beer with deep structure and great balance, Jubelale 2010 is slightly different. It’s good though, really good.
The smell coming off the tan foam right after it’s poured is slightly masked. It was almost as if this beer needed to open up a bit like a bottle of wine does. But the first taste on the palate was rich with dark molasses and black licorice. It had a sweet dank to it that was very interesting. After about 20 minutes, the nose on this beer came alive with the complex hop characteristics, most notably a perfect bitterness that seemed to really bring out a dark chocolate kind of scent on the nose.
This beer bears very little resemblance to Deschute’s yearly winter ale, but then again, it doesn’t have to. It says a once-a-decade beer right on the label.
We poured this beer on a Saturday morning after putting in an hour’s worth of work pulling up tac strip at a buddy’s remodel project. With the sun shining down and temps hovering around 60, it was a perfect setting for a beer than can instantly change your perspective about what a beer should be.
Here’s another review of this beer from the Seattle PI that I thought was entertaining.
Jubelale 2010 is available at Worden’s Market.
Prost,
GG
"like pouring pancakes out of a bottle."
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