Outstandingly celebratory 15th anniversary ale contrasts creamy caramel malting with red-wined brandy, cognac, and rosé nuances atop clean-watered juicy-fruited plain. Stewed prune, candied apple, bruised orange, pureed raisin and medicinal cherry envelop chewy butterscotch-toffee follow-through. Syrupy whiskey kick and buttered rum caking add to the dewy sweetness of ambitious ruby-browned delight.
Elegant soft-tongued dark German lager retains smooth dried fruit appeal. Brown-sugared caramel malting spreads across candied orange, soured prune, sugared fig, pureed raisin, black cherry and cola nuttiness. Aromatic red-wined bourbon-burgundy illusions vie for attention and chocolate-chalked Devils Food Cake backdrop provides further resilience.
Brusque cider-like oaken cherry souring needs richer flavor profile. Apple-spiced green grape tartness remits vinous lambic-like pucker for mahogany-browned fruit ale. Corky hop dryness usurps montmorency cherry influence.
Slick mocha malting and sour lactic astringency denigrate roasted peanut, walnut, hazelnut, and Brazil nut coarsening of flaccid English-styled Brown Ale. Dry hop-charred bittering depletes caramel-toffee sweetness and earthen peat sneak.
Summery blue-canned moderate body ain’t bad for macrobrewed fluff. Billowy white-headed, pale-yellowed session beer with understated hop-spiced tingle and slim crystal malting plies grassy straw-wheat-hay earthiness to herb-tinged lemon peel zest and faintest pineapple-grapefruit tang. Watery texture lowers appeal.
Dismal updated version of defunct H.C. Berger’s popular red ale done in by phenol hop astringency and iodized metallic tinge, depleting short-lived toasted almond prelude. Scathing alcohol burn restricts apple-soured dried apricot tartness.
Vapid pale-yellowed moderation downgrades mainstream Canadian version. Astringent hop acridity, thin white-breaded base, and soapy pale-malted nut spicing deprive brief spun-sugared sweetness. Nifty citric-rotted lemon-limed spritz needs brighter up-front flavor profile.
Peerless golden-hazed perfume-wafted blonde ale way more interesting, assertive, and dynamic than usual moderate-bodied hefeweizens. Banana-chipped coriander-clove spicing and sweet vanilla-butterscotch creaming spread across soft fizz-hopped pep. Meringue pied apple, melon, peach, pear, and clementine illusions filter through marmalade midst. Further sips reveal tart white and green grape esters, lemony orange-tangerine tang, and lurking bubblegum sensation. On tap 2011, juicy orange tang brightened deluxe interior even better.
Refined copper-bronzed ‘Finnish ale brewed with juniper twigs’ described thusly as a light barleywine, adjunct brown ale, special winter ale and rustic Euro sahti. Subtle medium-bodied intricacy combines brown, white and Belgian chocolate spicing with brown-sugared caramel roast. Molasses rye breading and toasted almond whim settle into the delicate mix. Vanilla bean, rum raisin, maple, cherry, and apple illusions flow through tertiary dark nuttiness. A mild complexity worth exploring.
Striking moderate-bodied witbier brings abundant orange-peeled clementine-tangerine-lemon tang to peppery sediment-chunked Belgian yeast funk. Banana, vanilla and butterscotch further sweeten floral-perfumed citric spunk, delicate clove-coriander-cinnamon spicing and mentholated hibiscus-eucalyptus remnant. Perfect for sunny afternoon consumption. On tap at Nanuet Mall’s Yard House, orange rotted clementine juicing swept thru more pronounced hop-dried juniper bittering and softer white wheat bed.
Complex soft-textured dry body similar to newfangled Black IPA/ Cascadian Black styling due to resinous wood-charred hop oiling, enduring dark-fruited nuttiness and recessive pine comb bitterness contrasting creamy dark chocolate malting. Lingered French roast coffee finish picks up ashen walnut-seared peanut shelling,chewy cookie-doughed hazelnut-pecan tangent,and tar-like Blackstrap molasses astringency reinforcing tertiary bruised cherry, fig, and prune nuances. ‘A sexy American interpretation’ of a heady brown ale, indeed.
Bold adjunct ale brings resinous pine-sapped citric hop bittering and ashen charcoal char to creamy cocoa-molasses base. Chewy peat-smoked black chocolate malting, subsidiary dark-roasted coffee scamper, and scant cherry cordial illusions elevate mocha rampage. Tertiary pink grapefruit and black grape tartness seeps into caliginous mochaccino dusk.