Daily Archives: November 11, 2015

ZYWIEC 1881 PORTER

Whether using updated recipe or just tweaking mocha ingredients, Zywiec’s newer labeled ’1881′ version of dry Porter offers tarry black patent malt bittering to sugar-milked coffee sedation, cedar-charred pumpernickel breading, black licorice respite, wispy whiskey nip and soy-sauced raw molasses, picking up mild burnt caramel sweetness by the finish.

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STONE 24 CARROT GOLDEN ALE (CARROT CAKE-INSPIRED BELGIAN ALE)

On tap at Poor Henry’s, welcome novelty (crafted in conjunction with home brewer Juli Goldenberg and Monkey Paw Brewing)  loads beet-juiced carrot cake entry with vanilla icing for adventurous 8.5% ABV Belgian-styled pale ale. Sweet honeyed malts contrast lively Saaz hop sharpness as brisk-watered vodka plasticity provides light alcohol burn to adjunctive dried cinnamon grounding and golden raisin snip. Sweet carrot caking picks up lemon meringue, banana, peach, cantaloupe, honeydew and pear nuances by the lightly creamed fruit-spiced finish.

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MOA ST. JOSEPHS TRIPEL

On tap at Poor Henry’s, lightly fruit-glazed candi sugaring picks up sweet rum spicing and creamy vanilla snip over delicate caramel malting and mildly phenolic white-peppered hop bittering. Orange-bruised banana, cantaloupe, lemon custard, apricot, peach and sugarplum fruiting gains honeyed banana-coriander sweetness over time.

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TERRAPIN / CIGAR CITY VAPRICOT

In conjunction with Florida’s Cigar City, apricot-pureed Imperial IPA brings ginger-spiced tropical fruiting to the fore. Vodka-like alcohol astringency swirls alongside tangy pineapple, mango, lemon and passionfruit tropicalia. Tertiary candied apple, peach and red grape nuances as well as sticky grenadine liqueur syruping further sweeten the iconic hybrid. Recessive spruce-sapped fern, sage, rosemary and basil herbage tingles back end of apricot-lacquered elixir.

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BREWDOG HARDCORE IPA

Distinguished dry-hopped medium body coalesces simmered down tropical fruiting with crystalline sugar spicing and caramelized Maris Otter malts.  Softly lingering hop-oiled citric bittering picks up mild pine resin and fresh-cut grass remnant while floral grapefruit-peeled lemon, orange, mango, peach, pineapple, red grape, tangerine and passionfruit serenity hides heightened 9.2% ABV burn. Enlightened hopheads and seasoned pale ale quaffers rejoice!

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SURLY FURIOUS BEER

Tempestuously bold medium-full body loads affluent fruited hop bliss upon creamy caramel malting and honeyed barley roast. Brazenly brisk orange-peeled grapefruit bittering, tropical mango-pineapple-lemon tang and candied apple-peach-pear sweetness pick up resinous pine needling for well-balanced Minnesotan. One of the best canned Midwest IPA’s.

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