So-so sunset red medium body counters roasted barley-oats frontage with woody Cascade hop bittering, mild brown chocolate variance, and blanched honey nut dab. Sweet caramel malting usurps flimsy spicing ’til metallic finish drains backend appeal.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
BISON ORGANIC GOLDEN BOCK
Phenol light-bodied clear straw bock (with funky pungent scent and creamy texture) hides sneering alcohol trepidation behind hard-candied fig-prune souring, raw honeyed astringency and transparent earthen floral backdrop.
BISON ORGANIC GINGERBREAD ALE
Uniquely impressive medium-bodied winter porter places cinnamon-spiced gingerbread theme above hop-roasted maple-sapped molasses malts. Oncoming brown chocolate sweetness deepens black cherry, almond, and pecan illusions seeping into burgundy-soaked cookie dough finish.
BISON ORGANIC BELGIAN ALE
Arid champagne-tingled light-bodied tripel drags sour lemon-candied acidity through grassy-hopped coriander encumbrance. Perfumed herbal spicing, whimsical spearmint-menthol sass, unripe apple tartness, and tertiary white grape-apricot-peach sunset falter.
BISON CHOCOLATE STOUT
Brewed with Dutch cocoa and retaining lactic brown-sugared chocolate fudging, medium-bodied stout also reveals secondary raw molasses, charred walnut, and burnt cedar illusions. On the horizon, chicory-doused black coffee influence darkens roasted hop bittering. But flawed charcoal scorch haunts oily mocha finish.
BISCHOFSHOF PRALAT PILSENER
Sunset orange dry German pils with minor turbidity finds spice-hopped tangerine-melon tang overshadowing desolate candied honey sweetness. Fizzier and simpler, yet more bitter, than brewers’ Jubilaumsbier.
BISCHOFSHOF ORIGINAL 1649 JUBILAUMSBIER
Subtly straightforward hay-hued pilsner prudently lightens floral hops and orange-tangelo sourness while retaining robust malted grain richness.
BIRRA DEL VECCHIO PILS
Rugged maize musk contrasts rye-breaded cracked wheat sweetness dominating clear pale pilsner. Setback honeyed malts adjoin lemony seltzer fizz before tinny cardboard finish diminishes affable light-bodied fluff.
BIG SKY SCAPEGOAT PALE ALE
Strangely reliant on doughy sourness rather than fruity briskness most pale ales offer. Complacent barleymalt toasting casually sweetens orange pith bitterness up-front. Ripe vegetal waft and pumpernickel-rye wisp nicely counter burnt sugar sweetness consuming dry spiced-hop finish mellower palates will enjoy.
BIG SKY POWDER HOUND WINTER ALE
Nearly bock-like with its dusky prune intimacy, chewy toffee-caramel malting, and soft hop-spiced tingle. Gritty cereal-grained subtlety aids moderate cinnamon-toasted nuttiness, but herbal seasoning lacks.
BIG SKY MOOSE DROOL BROWN ALE
Sassy medium-bodied ruddish-hued delight saddles mocha malt bitterness, roasted barley sear, and dry chocolate resin with illusions of pine combs, sappy spruce, walnut, cola nut, and tobacco. Prickly hop-spiced resilience lingers skyward.
BIG SKY CRYSTAL ALE
Easy-to-plow session beer finds doughy mouthfeel matching mash tun waft. Toasted oats, honeyed wheat, and wild barley augment sugary crystal malting of perfume-hopped light-bodied victor.