Bold 2021 bourbon-aged (11.5% ABV) tripel variant soothes the tongue as caramelized dried fruiting and mellow spicing receive musky cellared fungi residue. Light bourbon sweetness fades.
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CHATHAM FARMER’S DAUGHTER STRAWBERRY BLONDE
Fizzy lemon spritz overstays welcome as wild strawberry tartness relinquished. Recessive candied strawberry sweetness given arid pale malt base.
OYSTER CREEK BETAPARTICLE BLACK CHERRY WHEAT
Musty black cherry tartness lingers thru musky compost earthiness, reaching deadened honey wheat base. Thin, underwhelming.
HINTERLAND DOOR COUNTY CHERRY WHEAT
Tart Montmorency cherry influence lost amongst slight orange wisps and slighter floral-perfumed spicing in blurry light-bodied mix. Listless caramel malt base sinks to bottom.
NEW BELGIUM HOLIDAY ALE
Powder-sugared pumpkin spicing (cinnamon-nutmeg) plus muted cranberry-orange tartness stay subtle as fluttered brandy-cognac spiriting sways the dried fruited finish.
BLUE MOON LIGHT CITRUS WHEAT
Bright Valencia orange essence upholds 95-calorie Blue Moon spinoff. Tangy orange fronting gains sunny lemon licks above soft white wheat base. Mild phenol hop aridity kept under wraps.
TALKING WATERS STONY RUN PALE ALE
Classic amber-hued pale ale with tepid flavor profile. Lightly spiced orange-apple-tangerine combo barely registers atop cardboardy caramel malts. Tamped down Cascade-Centennial hops lay barren.
TALKING WATERS MN NICE ADVENTURE LAGER
Fizzy, arid, sessionable dry lager with orange-spoiled lemon rot grazing parched maize, straw wheat and raw honey at its bland biscuit base.
SCHILLING SCHLAUMEIER BAVARIAN STYLE HEFEWEIZEN
Delicate straw clear hefe stays thin as spritzy lemon licks prickle sweet banana-clove seduction over soft sourdough wheat base, picking up mild herbage, green grape tannins and phenol hop blurb.
WIDOWMAKER HOW THE GODS CHILL AMBER LAGER
Dry clear golden light lager lets lemon lime musk and slight grapefruit pith bittering sidle dry Chinook-hopped herbage as skunky pale malting ruins fragile white bread base.
KC BIER MUNICH STYLE BROWN LAGER
Boring bronze moderation with bread crusted pilsner malts providing dull bed for phenol Perle hop spicing, leafy autumnal earthiness, raw molasses dreck, undefined herbage and musty orange oiling.
KC BIER MUNICH STYLE GOLDEN LAGER
Smoothly cold conditioned helles lager suffuses brisk lemon musk with grassy herbage and raw-honeyed graining. Mild sweet bread base sops up hay-like barnyard acridity.