Generic sudsy pale lager (named after Southern California tattoo collector) maintains fizzy hop-spiced sharpness above cheap corn-rice adjuncts that seep into glutinous wheat spine. Solvent-like finish and latent phenol nature further disrupt.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
FEGLEY’S BREWWORKS BAGPIPER’S SCOTCH ALE
Creamy caramel-malted medium-full body cuts pureed cherry tartness, bittersweet chocolate-covered raisin and spiced prune-fig thickness with sharp carbolic fizz. Peaty wood-smoked whiskey overtones drape seasonal cinnamon-allspice-nutmeg midst. Raspberry, anise, and cola nut play backup.
FEGLEY’S SPACE MONKEY RASPBERRY SAISON
FEGLEY’S INSIDIOUS IMPERIAL STOUT
Bottled version’s heavy carbonation didn’t disturb up-front mocha depth of fleshy tan-headed mahogany-hued full body. Black chocolate, milked coffee, and anise vie for space above oily hop-charred oats-dried bottom. Walnut-seared black cherry souring adds depth.
LAUGHING DOG CSB EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER
Passably abstruse ESB brings prickly piney-hopped bittering to tart fig-prune-plum souring and orange-dried apricot-grapefruit clamber. Peanut-shelled walnut astringency, dainty herbal-floral notions, and slim bread-crusted spine backup Saison-like sour ale template.
NEBRASKA APRICOT AU POIVRE SAISON
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, deviant farmhouse-styled fruit ale maintains black-peppered grassy-hopped bittering, nearly ransacking primary apricot puree theme of barrel-aged Belgian-styled saison. Peppercorn, rosemary and thyme herbage infiltrates candi-sugared peach-brandied lacquering spread across wheat-cracked spine. Alcohol astringency soaks up tertiary ginger-spiced orange compote souring.
PRETTY THINGS BABY TREE QUAD
Mild copper-hazed plum-dried dark-spiced Belgian-styled quad retains pleasant light-bodied appeal. Plasticine-encased rum-soaked raisin, brown-sugared fig, and dried plum illusions reach cocoa-powdered chocolate-chalked midst. Subsidiary chamomile herbage seeps into subsequent oaken cherry strawberry-banana tartness. On ’11 re-tasting, citric-hopped herbal spicing and dark floral nuance found.
SIERRA NEVADA 30TH ANNIVERSARY IMPERIAL HELLES BOCK
Delightful fruit cocktail theme underscored by sharp floral-spiced grassy-hopped orange peel bittering and rich caramel malt creaminess. Wheat-honeyed red cherry, purple grape, pineapple, tangerine, peach, mango, and melon illusions brighten maple-sapped pine-combed spruce-tipped viscosity to lusty 8.3% alcohol reminder. A rejuvenating IPA-like specialty brewed in conjunction with lauded beer experts Charlie Papazian and Fred Eckhardt.