Lacey chestnut-hued English draught version succeeds despite initial light delivery pushing majority of flavor to the delicate finish. Atop crisp water flow, laid-back chocolate-mocha malts offer shades of blanched bitterness and debonair sweetness. Mowed hay and fresh cut wheat outline wispy hop guidance as subtle dark caramel and maple notes caress mildest coffee sourness mid-palate. Gentle giant could pass for lighter porter or busy brown ale.
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GREENE KING INDIA PALE ALE
Steadfast amber-hued English ale swirls stealth Scotch sweetness into butterscotch-butternut nicety and lightly embittered floral hops. Spoiled orange and green apple illusions peak through soft carbolic frisk. Those expecting traditional IPA template of smoked malts and tangible spicing may be puzzled but not disappointed.
GREENE KING ABBOT ALE
Whether bottled or in 14-ounce can (with nitro widget), richly regal hand-pumped English draught crisply resonates from taut grain usurpation to sugary malt finish. Creamy butterscotch-vanilla sweetness thickens doughy yeast sinew. Smoked wood singe and tar-like trail embitter biscuit-y wheat moderation. Popcorn illusion rubs up against tart apple tenure in the herbal recesses.
GREEN FLASH WEST COAST I.P.A.
Bustling coppery medium body penetrates fully from inaugural ripe red-fruited nose to bright spruce-tipped mouth and earthen mineral-grained craw. Abrasive alcohol burn saturates apple-peach-tangerine tang and grapefruit-peeled spice tingle. Hop-charred bitterness coats cereal-oats bottom.
GREEN FLASH TRIPPEL BELGIAN STYLE ALE
Dapper gold-hazed tripel counters dry Saaz hop bittering with basking candi-sugared peach, melon and curacao orange luster. Sweet banana-clove-coriander flurry sours to delicately vinous grape finish. Lively floral-spiced herbs caress thin breaded yeast bed.
GREEN FLASH IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
Aromatic pine needle sensation and teasing spruce lilt provide wintry freshness to clear saffron medium body. Zesty grapefruit rind, orange peel, and pineapple tang embitters spice-hopped mineral grains. Herbaceous basil, cannabis, and white pepper undertones pleat misty rainwater crispness and sullen vegetal snip.
GREEN FLASH HOP HEAD RED ALE
Elaborate sienna-hazed dry body retains woody IPA suggestion. Sweet rye-toasted caramel malt ratio remains low against resinous piney hop bittering, but juicy red apple-peach-nectarine tang gains prominence, balancing bitter grapefruit rind, juniper, and pine nut sharpness. Only its slick buttery finish distracts fruity frolic.
GREEN FLASH DOUBLE STOUT
Smooth midnight black Imperial Stout with hefty 8.7% alcohol boozing stays rich and creamy. Hop-charred toasted oats reinforce roasted coffee bean bitterness, thickening black chocolate subsidy and tertiary cola-hazelnut-walnut conflux. Raw molasses, cocoa, and black licorice illusions deepen complexity.
GREEN FLASH BARLEYWINE
Pronounced perfume-hopped citric fruiting and strong alcohol influence favorably prevail over bitter grapefruit pungency. Cinnamon and clove-spiced peach, pear, cherry, and bruised orange illusions furnish chewy caramel malt thickness.
GREAT LAKES LOCKTENDER LAGER
Salty billowy white-headed, hazily pale-bodied, wheat-grazed Munich-styled medium body picks up tempered lemon rind sourness, dewy sourdough splurge, and grassy grain surge its mildly acidic bitter hop finish durably enforces.
GREAT LAKES HOLY MOSES BELGIAN STYLE WHITE ALE
Contagiously tangy Belgian-styled wheat ale offers bright orange peel sweetness, lemony cherry pie zest, swelling blueberry-tangerine proxy and emphatic coriander-chamomile nook fortifying sharp white-peppered hop bitterness. Wheat-cracked toasted malt spine enhances juicy fruit gusto. On tap at Biggie’s, sweet orange peeled tangerine tang and candied banana tartness gain refreshingly crisp chamomile herbage as brisk carbolic spritz tingles tongue.
GREAT LAKES GLOCKENSPIEL WEISENBOCK
Rich prune swoon and mild curacao orange souring underscore pumpkin-spiced sugar-candied malting of copper-hazed medium body. Latent banana-clove subtlety too withdrawn to upend lusty alcohol resonation.