WILLIAMSPORT / DUBOISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Across the Susquehanna River four miles from Williamsport, Duboistown’s capacious cedar-planked green-trimmed Valley Inn added brew tanks in 2006 and now also operates as ABBEY WRIGHT BREWERY. Visited April ’08, the rural saloon with octagon-shaped bar, windowed brew tanks, oak tables-chairs, billiard tables, and small stage area is connected to a beautiful banquet space with black walnut-hickory interior and gas hearth.
A certain grapefruit rind bittering, perfect for hop-heads, consumed lively apple-pear-peach-lacquered Alpha Deuce IPA, lemony lime orange-peeled Mosquito Wheat, biscuit-y phenol-hopped Irish Red Ale, and washed-out apricot-led juniper-backed XPA Hoppy Ale. Soapy berry-tart citric-soured Blackberry Wheat lagged and black cherry-red grape-fronted walnut-faded Quaker Oatmeal Stout seemed too delicate. But sweet milky cappuccino-fronted black chocolate-centered bruised cherry-soured hickory-charred vanilla-beaned peat-mossed Smokey Oak Scottish Ale ideally hit the spot.
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