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- Author: John Fortunato
- Category: Beers A-Z, TOP FAVORITE ALBUMS
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BOSTON BEER CO., BOSTON, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Enjoyable frothy session beer allows candi-sugared yellow-fruited nature to inundate mild piney hop bittering to biscuit-y cornbread bottom. White grapefruit, yellow grape, and green lime complement tart lemon-seeded overture. Lively citric finish scatters floral, black pepper, and fresh-cut grass nuances below crystalline pilsner malting.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ERIE BREW. CO., ERIE, PA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Semi-interesting deep amber full body brings creamy caramelized honey malting to cane-sugared grape-orange-cherry waver and biscuit-y bottom end, but gratingly sharp phenol hop bite overwhelms flavor profile. Moreover, partially disguised 10% alcohol boozing tempers hollow fruit-grained finish and tertiary macadamia-walnut remnant.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: PORTSMOUTH BREWERY, PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Luxurious bottled version is veritable godsend for wintry evening, 2010. Pureed black cherry fascination drapes rich fig-raisin-prune dried fruiting and sweet-Scotched sherry-burgundy-bourbon alcohol whir. Chewy brown-sugared honey-sapped molasses coating secures gooey medicinal cherry-candied stickiness, mild hazelnut-macadamia smidgen, and piney hop sop. Bruised banana, rum raisin, and caramel apple come along for the ride.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: OTTER CREEK BREWING, MIDDLEBURY, VT.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CLIPPER CITY BREW. CO., BALTIMORE, MD.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Strong Belgian-styled tripel (with funky yeast sediment floating through dense amber-hazed full body) maintains candi-sugared fruit zest. Banana, bruised orange and green apple illusions counter subordinate pepper-spiced hop bittering. At finish, cotton-candied honey malt sweetness receives amiable butterscotch twist.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: WIDMER BROTHERS, PORTLAND, OR.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: PRIVATE LANDBRAUEREI SCHEUERER, MOOSBACH, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: PRIVATE LANDBRAUEREI SCHEUERER, MOOSBACH, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BREWDOG LTD., FRASERBURGH, SCOTLAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
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Wavering spiced ale may boast kola nut, poppy seed, and guarana herbage, but these under-whelming elements barely register. Instead, brown-sugared chocolate malting, red grapefruit tang, orange-tangerine juicing, and floral hop spicing integrate with tertiary tea, hemp, and pine forest illusions. Barley-roasted heather honey sweetness validates citric malting. Nowhere near as innovative and enigmatic as label claims.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: RED HOOK BREWERY, PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Offbeat copper-toned ‘09 Extra Special Bitter allows tannic grape acidity, moldy orange tartness, and mild nuttiness to affect honey-soured caramel-toasted malting. Citric-hopped cider sharpness gets diacetyl at tea-like tobacco-dried backend.



