Pour slowly unfiltered alcohol-tinged malt liquor-like pale lager. Peachy orange-tangerine tang overtaken by pine-barked grapefruit peel bittering. Wavering floral bouquet enhances tropical pineapple passage, mild blueberry souring, and soft currant lacquering. Ultimately, stylistically expansive as an adjunct lager.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: HIGH & MIGHTY BEER CO., HOLYOKE, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BANKS BREWERY, BARBADOS
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Simple pale-bodied session beer that’ll satisfy poorer American blue collar tastes. Sour corn-oiled turn-off picks up dry phenol hop bittering fortifying fragile barley-roasted wheat-cracked spine to minimal soapy finish. Oily diacetyl mouthfeel, putrid Scotch malting, green apple souring, and cooked vegetable tinge beat down satisfactory rice adjunct.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SIERRA NEVADA BREWERY, CHICO, CA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: KONA BREW. CO., PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Red Hook-brewed Hawaiian-styled pale lager may lack depth (and taste different from original version), but dry-bodied toasted bread frontage and multi-grained pumpernickel-rye respite will please whole-wheat bread eaters.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SHMALTZ BREW. CO., SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Eye-catching circus freak-labeled series continues with complex 10% alcohol-fueled German-styled doppelbock posing as a strong lager. Sugary ginger sweetness invades red cherry, golden raisin, purple grape, and apricot fruitiness as well as buttery molasses-chocolate malting. Peppery hop fizz simmers tertiary gin-soaked barleywine, Chardonnay, and rum boozing and slight metallic twang. Like the finest non-flavored vodka, this full-bodied lager elevates its supplemental ingredients.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CERVEZAS ALHAMBRA, GRANADA, SPAIN
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Up-front glutinous wheat sweetness and cloying corn sugaring embellish simple hop flow. Musty yeast souring counters Vienna-styled cereal-grained malts, combining for prosaic Euro Scotch essence. But unassumingly soapy butterscotch finish lags behind.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: AMARCORD, SAN MARINO, ITALY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Respected Italian film director, Frederico Fellini, deserves better than lackluster blonde lager tributary. Initial cabbage-like vegetal waft of palest yellow pearly-headed lightweight bodes badly. Moldy sourdough breading debunks timid lemongrass midst, bruised orange taint, and olfactory hay-barnyard astringency. Lamely watery, soapy suds.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CERVECERA NACIONAL, CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Clover honey waft prefigures corn cereal buoyancy, creamy caramel malt seduction, and intervening chalky mocha-cocoa sourness as tamped down hops fortify buttery finish of fine pale amber. Slight departure from usual grain-based South American beers.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ANHEUSER-BUSCH, ST. LOUIS, MO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Green-bottled, clear golden-hued, white-headed lager lacks distinction despite boasting influence of ten international brewmasters’ strange affinity towards exploiting Heineken-Beck’s sour malted grain sharpness. Sunny hop briskness and bread-y yeast pungency remain steadfast, but fizzy seltzer flow whimpers to mild bitter finish.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: APPALACHIAN BREW. CO., HARRISBURG, PA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Silky pearl-headed yellowing amber lager permeates formative chaff wheat earthiness with grassy dry-hopped perk, herbaceous floral accents, and lemony zing. Cereal-barley-corn sweetness gets sour towards diacetyl finish, becoming overly cloying if warmed.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CASTEL-SAKARTVELO, TBILISI, GEORGIA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
White-headed golden-bodied middleweight smears malted barley sweetness atop charred hop bitterness and chafed smokiness but depth and clarity lack.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: NORTHERN GREECE BREWERIES, THESSALONIKI, GREECE
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Sweet whiskey malt-scented Greek secures moldy orange souring and alcoholic cognac tinge for dry wheat-backed flack. Vanilla creaminess and light spicing lost amongst mild acidity.