Pour slowly sunny yellow-hazed pearly-headed blonde ale to avoid over-carbonation. Bark-dried orange peel and grapefruit rind bittering reaches tart hard candied center, enlivening white peach, pineapple, and quince fruiting. Herbaceous twang lingers through ascending peppery-hopped lemon seed souring.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: HIGH & MIGHTY BEER CO., HOLYOKE, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRASSERIE DE L'ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU, AUBEL, BELGIUM
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Pour slowly this highly carbonated white-headed blond. Resilient candied butterscotch banter lends laid-back elegance to mild medicinal mouthfeel, but subdued citric-spiced finish gets a tad soapy.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: AMARCORD, SAN MARINO, ITALY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Dry vegetal surge depletes lemony peach tartness and tenuous floral backdrop of soapy, light-bodied, unbalanced blonde ale.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: GULPHENER BIERBROUWERIJ, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Perky hops enliven sweet whiskey malts, candied yeast, and honeyed wheat, creating sugared wafer mouthfeel. Fig-date souring acquires butter pecan illusion caressing trifled water-crisped barleywine finish ’til disintegrating expeditiously.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ANDELOT PROEF BROUWERIJ, LOCHRISTI, BELGIUM
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Hazy yellow-orange medium body with yeasty viscosity yields salient honey-dipped banana fizz outlining clove-coriander hem and prudent nectarine-apricot tang. Mighty hop zest and moderate herbal notch add further resiliency.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ANHEUSER-BUSCH, ST. LOUIS, MO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Pleasant light-bodied clear straw summer seasonal places sharply spiced lemony hop tingle above paltry sourdough serenity. Dewy, grassy earthiness and trifling floral tinge tease coriander-backed banana-quince wisp.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ARBOR BREW. CO., ANN ARBOR, MI.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Dark amber oak-aged Flemish-Belgian-inspired ale honoring former World War II French brewery pits sour chocolate malts against dry prune and unripe quince. Floral hops decorate backdrop, yeast sediment coats bottom, cumulative berry-citrus tang increases effervescence, and white grape tannin brings suitable acridity.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRASSERIE DE BENIFONTAINE, DEPUIS, BELGIUM
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Lightly hazed golden ‘Biere De Garde’ spreads musty yeast above spicy citrus. Deceptive moldy fungi waft and dank cellar whisk feel right juxtaposing tidy lemon rind souring and peppery-hopped ginger-spiced clove continuance. White peach, banana bread, pear, and quince illusions round out earthen clay-like backdrop.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: LA SEIGNEURIE DE LA NOUVELLE, SAINT-PAULIN, CANADA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
“Golden spelt”" Belgian-style pale ale gives dried banana frontage a mild hop-spiced bitterness and clove-backed floral accent. Whimsy wheat wafer sweetness dangles from moderate-bodied interior.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BOELENS BREWERY, BEISELE, BELGIUM
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
A bit unassuming and lighter than anticipated blonde honey ale has tons of brown sediment layering bottom. Candi-sugared honey malts consume orange peel bittering, cinnamon toasting, and herbal nuance, but body lacks.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRASSEURS DU NORD, BLAINVILLE, CANADA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Hazy golden light-bodied blonde renders polite citrus mildness, straw wheat facade, and toasted barley restraint. Lingered lemony resonation turns astringent by fading finish.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BOULDER BREW. CO., BOULDER, CO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Lackluster cloudy straw dry-bodied wheat ale brings peppered citric hop spicing to faint banana-clove meadow. Mild white bread-like yeast provokes mildewed lemongrass souring countering wafted creamed corn sweetness. Fine for plowing by the poolside.