Delightful fruit cocktail theme underscored by sharp floral-spiced grassy-hopped orange peel bittering and rich caramel malt creaminess. Wheat-honeyed red cherry, purple grape, pineapple, tangerine, peach, mango, and melon illusions brighten maple-sapped pine-combed spruce-tipped viscosity to lusty 8.3% alcohol reminder. A rejuvenating IPA-like specialty brewed in conjunction with lauded beer experts Charlie Papazian and Fred Eckhardt.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SIERRA NEVADA BREWERY, CHICO, CA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: PRIVATE LANDBRAUEREI SCHEUERER, MOOSBACH, GERMANY
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: HARPOON BREWERIES, WINDSOR, VT.
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Casual moderate-bodied amber-hued German-styled blond lacks overall distinction and fruity pizzazz. Buttery pale-malted honey-roasted barley graining enjoins basic floral-hopped orange-peach-cherry tang and pastry-like sugar cookie sweetness. Vanilla, iced tea, and wet paper illusions receive tertiary whiskey-zapped ransom.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRAUEREI HELLER, BAMBERG, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: AKTIEN BRAUEREI, KAUFBEUREN, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ALLGAUER BRAUHAUS, KEMPTEN, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ALLGAUER BRAUHAUS, KEMPTEN, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ATWATER BLOCK BREWERY, DETROIT, MI.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRAUEREI-AYING FRANZ INSELKAMMER, AYING, GERMANY
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Creamy pale-toned ‘Munich Helles’ brings subtle peppery hop-spiced bittering to vague malt-candied cocoa powdering informing lemony banana bread midst. But lazy yellow-fruiting and polite peach marmalade frailty are never sweet, raspy, bitter, or brazen enough to compare with Ayinger’s better efforts.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BURGERBRAU, WOLNZACH, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Rust-hued Bavarian suffers from blandness. White grape aroma and chaffed wheat earthiness evaporate in a sea of bittersweet mediocrity before barren floral yeast finish gets anemic. Serve to softhearted novices as fizzy alternative to predictable pilsners.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CAPITAL BREWERY, STEVENS POINT, WI.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CISCO BREWERIES, NANTUCKET, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
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