Brusque cider-like oaken cherry souring needs richer flavor profile. Apple-spiced green grape tartness remits vinous lambic-like pucker for mahogany-browned fruit ale. Corky hop dryness usurps montmorency cherry influence.
Daily Archives: June 16, 2011
SHIPYARD BREWER’S BROWN ALE
NARRAGANSETT SUMMER ALE
Summery blue-canned moderate body ain’t bad for macrobrewed fluff. Billowy white-headed, pale-yellowed session beer with understated hop-spiced tingle and slim crystal malting plies grassy straw-wheat-hay earthiness to herb-tinged lemon peel zest and faintest pineapple-grapefruit tang. Watery texture lowers appeal.
FORT COLLINS RED BANSHEE ALE
ALEXANDER KEITH’S NOVA SCOTIA STYLE PALE ALE
Vapid pale-yellowed moderation downgrades mainstream Canadian version. Astringent hop acridity, thin white-breaded base, and soapy pale-malted nut spicing deprive brief spun-sugared sweetness. Nifty citric-rotted lemon-limed spritz needs brighter up-front flavor profile.