Celebrating sensational microbrewer’s milestone anniversary with bold hoppy pale ale, this voluptuous full body offers luxurious fruited sweetness, buttery caramel creaminess, and expansive floral potpourri. Lemony grapefruit-peeled apple-peach-pear tang usurps earthen herbage and grassy-hopped pining to cereal grained bottom. Crisp clean-fruited finish retains bright zest.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ANCHOR BREW. CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
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- Brewery: FULLER SMITH & TURNER, GRIFFIN BREWERY, CHISWICK, ENGLAND
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: THREE SKULLS ALES, SEATTLE, WA.
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: MIKKELLER BREWERY, ROSKELDE, DENMARK
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Rich rocky-headed copper-hazed full-bodied pale ale closer to complex IPA styling. Resinous wood-chipped pine-needled bittering spreads across spice-hopped citric tang. Pine-sapped maple and spruce lacquer tart grapefruit peel souring and floral jasmine-rosebud bouquet to flaked oats bottom. Orange zest, tangerine, apple and grape illusions surface alongside tropical melon, nectarine, pineapple, and mango fruiting. A true hophead’s delight.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: KUHNHENN BREWERY, WARREN, MI.
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Soft sandalwood undertone seeps into red-orange-fruited cask version of brewer’s locally popular pale body. Blanched orange peel and grapefruit rind bittering dissolves into tart apple-tangerine-peach sedation above herbal nuance. Tertiary mango, pineapple, and passion fruit illusions provide delicate backup.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: WIDMER BROTHERS, PORTLAND, OR.
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- Brewery: NEW OLD LOMPOC BREWERY, PORTLAND, OR.
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Quaffed at Portland’s Morningstar Café, quince-wafted medium-to-full body with dark amber tone brings lingered piney hop resin to grapefruit peel bittering countering sweet apple-orange tang. Minor wood lacquering upended by wheat-honeyed caramel malting.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ITHACA BEER CO., ITHACA, N.Y.
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On tap, ‘wet-hopped’ copper-hazed autumnal seasonal shelters leathery hay-horsehide earthiness, dry fresh-cut wheat chaff, and sun-drenched corn-maize singe with sour lemon-bruised grapefruit zest. Resinous grassy-hopped vegetal restraint and soapy metallic tinge provide pliant backdrop.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SPANISH PEAKS BREW. CO., FREDERICK, MD.
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Hopheads impressed by resinous bitter-hopped depth as well as gooey viscous yeast sediment will enjoy sinewy cloudy copper ‘Classic Pale Ale.’ Zesty citric fragrance and recessive apple-peach-pineapple-pear sweetness counter heavily embittered lemon-peeled grapefruit rind finish. Weary caramel-malted cocoa souring and wavering astringent mustiness deplete overall fruited nature. Withered herbal-floral spicing and wayward piney nuance lack luster.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CISCO BREWERIES, NANTUCKET, MA.
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: WILLIAMSBURG BREWERY, WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
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- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SLY FOX BREWERY, ROYERSFORD, PA.
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