Dry golden-hazed moderation with fizzy lemon spritz spreading thru clover honeyed wheat breading. A mellow yellow blue collar pale wheat ale.
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MIDDLE JAMES GREAT MUSA HEFEWEIZEN
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck, middling hefe sacrifices some stylish banana-clove sweetness for dryer lemony herbage that nearly buries its sugary vanilla wafer backdrop.
SUBVERSIVE GREEN GLOW PALE ALE
Dry New York grain-hopped musk gains lemony orange oil bittering and fungi-tinged basil, thyme and cilantro herbage as barnyard hay acridity adds to the peculiar farmhouse styling.
NOTCH FRENCH DISKO PILS
Dry French pilsner takeoff with white-headed straw clear hue retains crisp, easygoing appeal. Maize-dried musk meets white rice sweetness and light herbage at salty lemon midst above white bread base.
SAUREZ FAMILY LO AND BEHOLD PORT DANUBE
Ultra dry port-barreled Flemish red ale seeps leathery oaken cherry tannins into plum-soured white wining and musty white grape esters, picking up unripe kiwi snip, diluted red grape juice smidge and pickled mustard seed tease before finishing extremely vinous.
OLD KLAVERACK DUNBAR STOUT
Burnt coffee infusion picks up dark chocolate roast, dry walnut respite and dark-roast hop bittering. Creamy nitro-like eclair head and burnt cedar tinge receive distant charcoal singe. A bit like day-old coffee.
OLD KLAVERACK DARK LAGER
Day-old light roast coffee nuttiness enters the fray before debittered black malt scrum and dark cocoa powdering reach mild black tea bittering above weedy earthen peat remnant.
OLD KLAVERACK HAZY IPA
Instant straight-ahead tropical fruit classic. Reliable lemony yellow grapefruit sunshine and spiced-up pineapple, mango, peach and tangerine tang pick up subtle pine lacquering over sugary pale wheat malting.
OLD KLAVERACK AMBER LAGER
Middle of the road moderation with pasty mouthfeel. Spicy amber grains back spritzy orange oiling and tannic grape souring but cheap cider murk arrives when warmed.
OLD KLAVERACK AMERICAN LAGER
Esygoing clear golden light body with fizzy lemon pep and green peppered herbage reaching light corn- whiskeyed Scotch midst above neutral white bread base.
WOODSTOCK BREWING
Inside a roughhewn, pine-fronted, Western-styled mini-mall in the tiny Catskill Mountains hamlet of Phoenicia, WOODSTOCK BREWING provides easygoing straightforward beers in an “Industrial chic setting that suits the relaxing environment of this hunting and fishing community.
Woodstock’s rustic epoxy-floored main room features a slate top bar with twelve draughts at its white tiled back plus pipe-fitted wood community tables, unfinished benches and black metal rooftop beams. The large glass-encased production facility supplies beer and a separate left side space adds more seating.
My wife and I perused Woodstock late July ’25 mid-afternoon to quaff nine stylishly standard suds. Cocktails, margaritas and wine were available alongside sandwiches, tacos and salads.
Unfiltered German-styled light body, Woodstock Pilsner, stayed dry as honeycomb astringency and barnyard hay acridity reached fresh baked breading.
Dry pale-bodied helles-styled Woodstock Lager plied raw honeyed citrus spicing and fresh-cut grass to pilsner-malted baked breading.
Flagship pale ale, Baby Dragon, a Cascade-Citra-Columbus-hopped moderation, draped candied orange tanginess and Meyer lemon zest atop oats-flaked pilsner malts.
Exquisite Imperial IPA, I Dream In Yellow, let crayon waxed orange lollipop tartness, vibrant grapefruit zesting, dry rum sugaring and floral lavender peppering coalesce above lightly creamed oats.
Another worthy Imperial IPA, Endless Cycle, gathered sunny grapefruit tanginess and mellow guava-gooseberry tartness into resinous pine dryness atop oats-flaked wheat creaming.
Candi-sugared pilsner malting saddled Westmalle-styled Outer Rings Tripel, a rummy Belgian pale ale (9% ABV) with lovely lemon meringue, creamy banana and pineapple candy fruiting plus slight vodka nip.
Tart raspberry-jammed strawberry and blueberry acquired salty lemon-dried acidity for fruity gose, All The Berries, finishing with a pink rosé sparkle.
Fulsome Baltic Porter, Before The Fall, blended Maris Otter malts with milk chocolate sweetness and dewy rye flouring, leaving modest coal, hazelnut and walnut snips.
Bustling (11% ABV) barleywine, Shikkoku No Senshi, combined dried fig, desiccated orange and spiced rum illusions over mocha-kissed Maris Otter malts.
SUBVERSIVE MALTING & BREWING
Opened February 2020 in an inconspicuous overhead-doored gray brick mechanic’s garage, SUBVERSIVE MALTING & BREWING is a nifty New York farmhouse nanobrewery in the town of Catskill. A rickety black foil sign leads patrons to the grain silo-sided pub house.
Crafting “simple and expressive” beers appealing to a wide range of people’s palates, Subversive takes its farm-to-table motto seriously.
Rustic cafe benches and a cozy couched section front the parlor-styled plank wood bar (cornered by two TV’s). Brew tanks are staged at the rear alongside a small canning area. As a malt house, Subversive utilizes floor-germinated roasted malts made from locally sourced grains.
Wine, hard cider and cocktails were available as well as burgers, sandwiches and salads.
It’s noontime in 105-degree weather as I sink five Subversive suds at one of the stone-grounded black picnic table under the covered deck on my late July ’25 trip. Unfortunately, they were out of flagship, Tiny Glasses Kolsch.
“Pillowy Euro pils,” Puff Puff, a light-bodied softie, left fizzy lemon upon its sweet-spiced floral hops and mild herbal tinge above doughy bread-crusted cereal graining, picking up latent maize straw dryness.
Year-round hazy India Pale Ale, NY Nectar, stayed soft on the tongue as well, letting yellow grapefruit and orange rind bittering delicately graze subtle spicing, light pining and grassy hop astringency.
Offbeat dry-hopped West Coast IPA, Verdant Voyage, let dank pine and nutty rye redirect pineapple-guava tartness plus wispy papaya-pineapple tanginess above mild pilsner malting.
Classic farmhouse ale, Subversive Saison, stayed easygoing as orange-bruised lemon meringue and dried plantain retained candi-sugared coating.
Smoothly creamed nitro stout, Dark Harvest, placed roasted coffee next to Cocoa Puffs chocolate malting, creamy eclair fluff and dewy earthiness.