Self-righteous ‘Dark Beer Specialists’ do a good job designing mahogany-hued American Black Ale. Pungent hop-charred pine tarring and dark-roasted chocolate malting sidle muddy coffee nuttiness. Dried-fruited blackberry, red grapefruit and pickled plum illusions sit below, increasing the bittersweet mocha sentiment.
‘Intense’ full-bodied dark ale takes black chocolate roast up pine charred barley-hop trail leading to coffee bean-embittered Blackstrap molasses finish. Heavy mocha influence hides latent dried-fruited nuances.
Deviously malleable Imperial Irish Red Ale closer to nut brown ale or mocha porter. Sweet brown chocolate entry picks up dark-roasted barley roast over sugary toffee malts as well as pine nut, hazelnut, chestnut and pecan nuttiness. Wispy raisin, plum and black cherry snips fade fast.
Sessionable hot summer night canned ale maintains herbal hop-forward aggressiveness and pallid citric niche. Rye-dried back end needs deeper penetration.
Easygoing sessionable canned pale ale with pungent pale malting, soured citrus fruiting and spritzy carbolic luster stays refreshingly light-bodied. Grassy-hopped vegetal spell allows crisp celery, fennel and carrot nuances to sidle subtle herbaceous nip.
Dank straw-cleared canned German wheat ale suffers from funky compost waft, rotten orange musk and metallic snip. Soured lemon spritz overruns subdued banana-clove expectancy and alkaline acidity ruins bubblegum finish.
Frantic dark-roasted chocolate malting inundates smoked molasses bittering, fudgy cookie dough sweetness and toasted oats sugaring. Crude hemp-oiled hop bittering deepens the dry cocoa-powdered finish.
Sharp hop-spiced fruiting brightens as brisk orange-peeled grapefruit rind bittering ascends. Morris Otter malt sugaring and tangy apple-nectarine-tangerine juicing contrast wintry pine needling. Fresh-watered mineral graining provides crisp, clean base.
