“Cold aged” pale straw helles lager retains amber grained pilsner malting for herbal spiced Noble hops and slight nut breading. A tidy moderation.
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SOUTHERN PINES CAROLINA CLARA MEXICAN LAGER
On tap at Growlers To Go – Kitty Hawk, flagship generic-canned clear yellowed Mexican lager stays mild and soft-toned as dry lime sequence picks up agave-licked tequila salting wronged by pasty cardboard snag.
CAROLINA COSTERO MEXICAN LAGER
On tap at Growlers To Go – Kitty Hawk, dry summery light-bodied Mex lager offers modest lemon oiling and mild black peppered herbage to corn-flaked white breading. Sessionable fare better with lime squeeze.
TOMS RIVER PAX ROMANA
Piney yellow grapefruit bittering stays moderate as floral-spiced perfuming and musky pilsner malting bottoms sharply IPA-fruited Italian/German-styled bohemian pilsner.
SARANAC HONEY PILS
Dry Clover honeyed pilsner malting underscored by mild lemon spritz as gruff phenol spicing and musky hop astringency strike its buttered biscuit base before turning cardboardy.
MASON JAR SLACK TIDE PILSNER
On tap at Growlers To Go – Kitty Hawk, brisk straw cleared Bavarian styled pilsner relies on mild musky mineral graining and floral-daubed Noble hop herbal spicing and peppery nip to pacify lighter summertime thirsts. Stylishly bold for a dry German pilsner, staying soft toned as fizzy lemon spritz tickles musty barnyard graining at finish.
VAULT TELLER PILS
On tap at Triton – Long Beach Island, spry lemon spritz picks up mild floral herbage, mossy grain musk and delicate sourdough breading for fine balanced Czech-styled pilsner. In the can, maize-dried grassy hop astringency wedged musky herbage and parched wood over slightly creamed raw-honeyed pilsner graining.
MIXED BREED HOLIDAY STOUT – 2022
Luxurious ’22 holiday stout brings massive nuttiness to fudgy dark chocolate creaming. Sweet bourbon pecan and toasted coconut-marshmallow adjuncts surge alongside chewy cacao nibs resilience. Silken smooth mocha nuttiness gains vanilla creme brulee resonance as well as tertiary hazelnut-pasted maple oats sugaring and teasing black cherry, raisin and prune illusions.
SPELLBOUND MAYAN IMPERIAL STOUT
Well integrated 3rd anniversary stout springs ancho chili peppering upon bittersweet dark chocolate and vanilla bean insistence. Alongside the moderate ancho heat, bitter Blackstrap molasses drapes wood-burnt hop char and mild pine tarring enveloping cinnamon-barked mocha stead. Distant Peppermint Patty candy, chocolate-covered cherry and molasses oatmeal cookie illusions waver.
PRAIRIE STUF’T IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Taphouse 15, sweet bourbon aging engages Double Stuf’t Oreo cookie knockoff. Fudgy cocoa nibs splendor reaches creamy vanilla center, leaving Devils Food Cake, brownie batter, bourbon vanilla and white chocolate illusions on its whiskeyed 11.5% ABV path. In the can, sweet bourbon-whiskeyed vanilla spicing impact rich cocoa-nibbed Oreos cookie confection, picking up fudgy brown chocolate and fluffy marshmallow sugaring as well as slight gingerbread snip.
MAST LANDING PARTY TRICK STOUT W/ CHOCOLATE & TOASTED COCONUT
Cocoa powdered coconut milkiness compromised by earthen peat murk as smoked maple molasses and musky dried fruiting waver above sour rye breading for underwhelming, stylishly obtuse stout.
CYPRESS PLUNDERING PUMPKINS RUM BARREL AGED STOUT
Pumpkin-seeded cinnamon bark dryness quickly encounters bustling pumpkin-pied sweetness in rich dark chocolate setting as Cruzan rum aging seeps in. Dazzling cinnamon and nutmeg resilience receives molasses-candied glaze and a spot of black coffee as terpy sandalwood, tarragonish anise and bourbon vanilla licks add to its bountiful luster.
