Incomparable DRAGONMEAD offers, at any given time, over forty softhearted to hard-bodied ales of differing strength, texture, complexity, and stylistic affiliation by brew master, Erik Harms. As of ’07, Dragonmead only bottled superfine Final Absolution Trippel and Under The Kilt Wee Heavy (listed in Beer Index).
Big Larry’s Broken Paddle American IPA, with its medicinal cherry-bruised orange-soured pepper-spiced luxuriance, is a personal fave. Long list of tapped brews quaffed over the course of four cordial visits (September ’04; July ’05; August ’06) is as follows:
AMERICAN ALES
Big Larry’s Pale Ale
prickly-hopped floral-accented fruit-rasped bitter.
Castlebrite Apricot Wheat
tart lemony apricot-soured grassy-hopped serenity.
Corktown Red
peat-malted tobacco-dried cherry-bruised orange-soured ale.
Crown Jewels IPA
tranquil red-fruited dry-body w/ restrained mocha-tea midst.
Dragon Daze Ale
mocha-soft dry-fruited hemp-spiked herbal remedy.
Mariann’s Honey Brown
astringent wet-papered mocha nutty sedation.
Redwing Raspberry Ale
juicy lemon-soured raspberry-tart dessert.
Lancelot’s Cream Ale
mellow diacetyl nullification.
BELGIAN ALES
Armageddon Grand Cru
creamy banana-bruised orange-candied Cognac ‘quad.’
Bill’s Witbier
daintily banana-clove-sweetened lemon-soured orange-tart retreat.
Bronze Griffin Belgian Ale
banana-chipped fig-dried mandarin orange-y pale ale.
Dubbel Dragon Ale
alcoholic orange-bruised honey-sugared serenity.
Guinevere’s Golden
currant-perfumed banana-clove-sweet pineapple-sour toxicity.
Wench Water
off-dry pale ale w/ cotton-candied peach-tangerine-nectar zest.
CZECH LAGER
Squire Pilsen
pungent peppery-hopped pumpernickel-breaded wheat-dried pils.
ENGLISH ALES
Crusader Dark Mild Ale
plain nut-dried mocha-malted tobacco-leafed anodyne.
Breath of Dragon Bitter
mild tealeaf-addled earthen-grained bore.
Erik The Red
earthen red-fruited herbal-hopped soapsuds.
Honey Porter
maple-sapped nut-dried black cherry-soured bark-charred softie.
Inquisition Pale Ale
blunt floral-hopped red-fruited pale-malted sipper.
Larry’s Lionheart Pale Ale
mild tea-dried orange-fruited biscuit-bottomed seducer.
London Brown Ale
dry-bodied hop-roasted ice coffee-soured complacency.
Woody’s Perfect Porter
expert coffee-roasted molasses-sugared Brit knockoff.
GERMAN ALES & LAGER
Bishop Bob’s Holy Smoke
peat- y Band-Aid-wafted wood-burnt meat-cured rage.
Dragonslayer Altbier
carbolic floral-hopped berry-jellied apple blossom dabbler.
Kaiser’s Kolsch
honeysuckle banana-bready coriander-spiced rosebud-bitter sop.
Nagelweiss Hefeweizen
lemony wheat-thinned banana-apricot-nipped dry body.
Nuhelles Einbock
fab musty-nosed apricot-dried strawberry-papaya-sugared sass.
SCOTTISH ALE
Andromeda Heather Ale
dry cola-nutty tobacco-smoked chocolate-chipped gruit.
90 Shilling Ale
strong cherry-sweet Scotch-dried potion.
Under the Kilt Wee Heavy
robust black cherry-pureed chocolate-malted dry body.
STOUTS
Cask Cond. Imperial Stout
espresso-roasted tobacco-dried vanilla-oaken bitter.
Imperial Stout
ashen coffee-oiled nut-charred licorice-finishing astringency.
Earl Spit Stout
creamy cocoa-malted black cherry-soured Irish-styled dry body.
Reverend Fred’s Oatmeal Stout
dry hop-charred stone-fruited chocolate-y malted.
Willy’s Oompa-Loompa Stout
lactic wood-burnt chocolate-coffee-roasted solace.
