Dark chocolate waft, green apple quickness, and tannic red grape tartness rise above date-fig conflux bordering earthy peat resin. Burnt hop dryness and chaffed wheat restraint smear otherwise tinny sour malt finish of frothy flesh-tone laced dark amber.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
(BLACK SHEEP) MONTY PYTHON’S HOLY GRAIL ALE
Commemorating hilarious Monty Python movie, dry honeysuckled Brit (with clinging Brussels lace) matches thick caramel sweetness to light floral-hopped citric spicing. Abiding wood-smoked tinge, reminiscent of an India Pale Ale, endures to mildly bitter mineral-grained vegetal finish, but soapy aftertaste lowers vitality.
(BLACK SHEEP) BLACK RAM ALE
Complex hard-to-find amber-clouded dark ale gathers sweet yeast upsurge and black chocolate malt stint to counter subordinate tar-like bitterness. Tangy orange zest and dark nut remnant expand full-bodied nature before watery consistency softens carbolic flow.
BLACK SHEEP ALE
Watery-textured fruity malt stickiness counters acrid alcohol presence muting bittersweet apricot-tangerine succulence to dulled earthen graining, wallowing in purgatory to herbal dry-hopped finish.
BLACK OAK NUT BROWN ALE
Dry roasted chocolate splurge levels off for dirty-grained earthen bitterness as hazelnut, cola nut, butternut, and walnut illusions float around dulled lactose continuance. Creaminess lacks resilience while undesired diacetyl astringency swells.
BLACK BOSS PORTER
Chalky mahogany-hued tan-headed Baltic porter with concealed 9.4% alcohol thrust mires candi-sugared lactose malting and sour chocolate blur with harsh hop char. Dry cocoa astringency, weak burnt caramel jot, and frail anise blot weaken earthen walnut-pomegranate trail, disrupting thin port-barleywine illusions.
B.J.’S PIRANHA PALE ALE
Piney resin coats deep fruited grapefruit-lemon rind spritz and sweet grain graze as jaunty hop bite pervades.
B.J.’S JEREMIAH RED IRISH STYLE ALE
Translucent amber-hued flesh-laced middleweight attaches burnt hop bitterness to caramel malts, toasted barley, and fresh hay before off-dry fruity floral finish fades.
B.J.’S HARVEST HEFEWEIZEN
Unfiltered straw-hazed German-styled wheat entrusts punctual orange-soured grapefruit tang to doughy bread bottom, gaining banana-clove insistence by bubblegum finish. Autumnal leafy earthiness speckles citric acidity.
B.J.’S BREWHOUSE BLONDE
Light-bodied Kolsch-styled dank fruitiness hangs around soft wheat strand as lemony flow builds and tamped down hops gain off-dry pep.
BITBURGER PREMIUM PILSENER
Briny-wafted pale-toned pils with cardboard-like grain palate and eager spiced-hop bitterness retains casual dry-bodied splendor to lightly oxidized floral finish.
BISON REUNION ’08 ORGANIC RED RYE ALE
Busy embossed label of hazy copper amber ale (brewed with caraway seeds) promotes myeloma and cancer research. Bettering blander organic beers that seem more interested in staying natural and earthy than delivering flavor, its glutinous hop-spiced flaked rye inertia picks up pumpernickel, macadamia, raisin, and fig illusions. Brown sugared chocolate-caramel-cocoa malting sweetens enigmatic orange-red fruited backdrop. Dryly vegetal fennel-gourd recess provides added dimension. Barleywine hints come and go.