Cola-hued German-styled ale secures chocolate malted brown sugar efficacy and sour orange splurge captioning spruce-hopped dryness. Sweet tobacco leaf finish decorated by cocoa, prune, and fig.
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AVERY NEW WORLD PORTER
Terrific ruby-browned lactose porter mounts loud chocolate-toffee profile atop caramel pecan buttering and cookie dough intimation. Roasted coffee-nut coarseness increases frothy mocha depth and earthy peat tinge to dry-hopped smoked grain finish.
AYINGER BRAU-WEISSE
Cordial 60% barleymalt/ 40% wheat combination suits typically frothy golden-hazed Bavarian-styled beer. Fizzy lemon spritz explodes in mouth before concentrated sourdough graining settles beside yeast-sinewed banana-clove midst. At finish, nutmeg nestles banana nut bread insistence.
BALADIN NOEL ALE
BALTIKA DARK LAGER (#4)
Smoked chocolate barleymalt lag, sagging spiced-hop bittering, and lax dry nuttiness offer shoddy Copper Ale-ish respite. Cheap burgundy-Scotch midst, oily mouthfeel, and flighty prune finish decrease value further.
BANGKOK PILSNER
Moderately creamy, fluffy white-headed pilsner with musty aroma (closer to paint thinner) imbibing candied malt sweetness to roasted barley spine. Heavy dry-hopped carbolics nearly extinguish rye-breaded grain-smoked nut singe and complacent citric tang. Though soapier, its skunked yeast pungency compares favorably to Dutch brews.
BARONS BLACK WATTLE SEED ALE
Seemingly improved in its better 2015 version, pasty sorghum-whey graining picks up cocoa-dried toffee influence and dewy cellar-like dankness without getting peculiar. On less impressive first passing (2008), advertised hazelnut, chocolate, and coffee influence compromised by phenolic herbal hop-charred bittering and off-putting cooked vegetable spell of auburn dry body. Native Aussie wattle seed fuses mineral-grained nicety to quaint barley roast, sour white grape tartness, red apple skin nuance, and dry rye-tobacco evasion, but weak mocha finish impedes.
(BAVIK) PETRUS DUBBEL BRUIN ALE
Viscous top-fermented ruddy-hued brown ale with definite barleywine appeal plies candi-sugared caramel-butterscotch-chocolate permanence above sweet sherry warmth and vinous burgundy-sherry souring. Crisp soft watered flow pacifies chewy molasses-dipped raisin-prune penetration, scant banana-cherry bruising, and dewy peat dankness.
BEAR REPUBLIC XP PALE ALE
Aromatic orange rind prominence and tangy grapefruit-peach-blueberry medley lead heavily carbonated bitter-hopped dry body. Prudent honeyed malt sweetness gains organic earthiness, animated floral accent, and meager kiwi-quince-melon hint to piney finish.
BELLEGEMS BRUIN
Tart Belgian ale with soured raisin-fig essence receives dry cherry-cranberry gambit, green apple smear, and stewed prune notion above powdery cocoa malting. Musty earthen bottom stirs up vinous grape tannins to light burgundy finish.
(BELL’S) TWO HEARTED ALE
Glowing sunset hue, spryly summery citrus zest, and piquant floral spicing immerse delightful spruce-malted India Pale Ale (inspired by Hemingway’s trout fishing ventures). Sharp dry hop bitterness nicely counters fruit salad sweetness and swelling orange peel zesting.
BERGHOFF ORIGINAL LAGER
Light-bodied amber lager with slight sourdough frontage and wheat biscuit bottom depleting minor diacetyl interference. Phenol lemon tang recalls sunny southerly pilsner.