Musty coffee bean sourness, dry Baker’s chocolate prompt, and flimsy vanilla extract fray shun creamy thickness for oily murk. Mismatched oaken grape esters bring leathery acidity to faint soy waver and drab pipe tobacco illusion.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
ATWATER CHERRY STOUT
Puckering pureed cherry sourness picks up ester-y grape-cranberry tartness above scant coffee-roasted bittering. Citric acerbity negatively affects oaken cherry prop.
(ATLANTIC) MAC FOOCHIE’S SCOTTISH ALE
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mooth moderate-bodied Scottish ale utilizes soft heather tips to provide dark floral nicety above smoked chocolate malting. Subtle brown-sugared dried fruiting picks up creamy vanilla-cocoa waver and tertiary chicory coffee nuance at midst. Thin prune, fig, and grape skin illusions flank ashen peat-tobacco earthiness.
ABITA ANDYGATOR HELLES DOPPELBOCK
Mellow moderate-bodied German-styled bock suspiciously blends white ale fruiting into doughy pilsner inclination. Despite bold 8% alcohol flow, soft fizzy-hopped sourdough persistency and gentle pear-apple-nectar cascade lighten slightly hazed amber body. Minor marzipan sweetness gets lost.
