Well balanced copper-hazed delight with tingly hop-spiced bittering countering barley-roasted caramel malting and candied apple sweetness. By midst, cinnamon-baked apple influence overrides peach-pear-orange fruiting as well as cocoa, tea, and honeysuckle illusions.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: NEW OLD LOMPOC BREWERY, PORTLAND, OR.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: HOPPIN’ FROG BREW. CO., AKRON, OH.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Likable brown-sugared caramel-malted butterscotch sweetness and cotton-candied red apple follow-up reach tangy orange-tangerine theme that brightens zesty medium body. Toasted almond illusion trails peat-y rye spine.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: MURPHY BREWING, CORK, IRELAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Sampled from breweries in Ireland and Holland without finding severe disparity (though Heineken’s version exudes firmer body), this thin eggshell-headed malt-scented blue collar fodder has overly familiar dry barley inefficiency and barest wood tones leading to mildly soured citric finish. Needs bitterer hop spice.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: MATT BREWING, UTICA, N.Y.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Aromatic caramel-toffee sweetness disrupted by faded floral hop astringency that delicately fizzles out. Abbreviated toasted graining, muted mocha wisp, and blah orange-apple-peach tang barely inform ill-defined metallic finish.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: OTRO MUNDO BREWING, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Sweet cereal-grained marzipan-caramel confluence seduces tangy cherry-apple-orange muting of clear amber moderation. But wet-papered cardboard-like wheat backbone crumbles.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BRASSERIE ABBAYE DES ROCS, MONTIGNIES-SUR-ROC, BELGIUM
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ABITA BREW. CO., NEW ORLEANS, LA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ALASKAN BREWING, JUNEAU, ALASKA
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ALPINE BEER CO., ALPINE, CA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ASPEN MEADOW BEER CO., COLD SPRING, MN.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ATLANTIC BREW. CO., BAR HARBOR/ PORTLAND, ME.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BARREL HOUSE BREWERY, CINCINNATI, OH.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None






