Uerige Doppelsticke & Troublette

I want to mention these two beers here as taking part in special fraternal order of beers which gesture beyond themselves into the realm of spirits. This is easier to describe in Uerige DoppleSticke as there is great and pretty readily apparent amaro things happening (but amaro in the dark!) although I think an analogue gesture is happening with troublette as well. Where is it heading? Into something brighter, all that great floral-pollen weight moving forward. I'm compelled to talk about grappa, but it's only half way there in terms of aromatics and being on the high frequency side of things.

What this calls into question is beer that doesn't make this gesture: where are we half way through a 12% belgian strong dark ale sweetened with candy sugar? Beer, the deep and maybe a bit sordid underbelly of what beer can be. I get that this a place to and probably important, nonetheless let's make this distinction as it can be useful in pulling seemingly disparate beers together and, on the other hand, breaking up some traditional taxonomy of 'dark' light' 'wheat' 'lager' etc.