Boring bronze moderation with bread crusted pilsner malts providing dull bed for burnt coffee simmer, phenol Perle hop spicing, leafy autumnal earthiness, raw molasses dreck, undefined herbage and musty orange oiling.
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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.
MICHAEL PLANK DUNKLER WEIZENBOCK
Lacking body, thin made-for-the-masses dark wheat bock lets delicate toffee-caramel sweetness pick up mild black peppered smokiness as distant cola nuttiness whimpers. Worst German brewer award.
MICHAEL PLANK GRANDPA PLANK’S WEISSBIER
Offbeat pink-labeled hefeweizen lets tingly lemon spritz overwhelm meager banana-clove-coriander combo and coconut-watered honeyed wheat base.
MICHAEL PLANK HEFEWEIZEN
Sad excuse for a German-made hefeweizen. Spritzy sour lemon musk, hard cider vinegaring and white grape tannins disrupt stylish banana-clove sweetness and sourdough base of phenolic copper crud.
MICHELOB ULTRA PURE GOLD
Boringly organic lo-cal light lager spinoff sucks. Complacent barley crisping and Seltzer-like lemon fizz reach arid hop astringency.
SOUTHERN TIER CARAMEL COOKIE BAR IMPERIAL STOUT
Fudgy dark chocolatey confectionery stout resembles a sweet mocha-drenched cookie as impressionable maple-sapped treacle, Sugar Daddy candy, creme brulee sugaring, bourbon chocolate syruping, Black forest cake richness and tingly anise spicing consume full-bodied dessert. Oreo cookie crust finish maintains aggression while slight raspberry-cherry fruitiness contrasts latent dark roast-hopped espresso in way back.
DRUERY IRISH BY BEER
Dark roast walnut coffee entry gains tarry hop char as black chocolate bittering and Blackstrap molasses fortify fine dry Irish stout.
BEER TREE SNICKERS PORTER
Confectionery Snickers candy bar entry picks up peanut-laced toffee sweetness (and slight cedar fragrance) to contrast overdone astringent hop phenols. Nutty caramelized milk chocolate sweetness barely has time to register before charred hops sear its whimsical sugar smack.
BERKSHIRE DEAN’S BEANS COFFEEHOUSE PORTER
Marvelous Drayman’s Porter spinoff utilizing Dean’s Beans burrows medium roast chicory coffee indulgence thru caramel-burnt dark chocolate, blackened nut char and tarry Blackstrap molasses residue. Try in lieu of black coffee in bed. Recommended.
FOUR QUARTERS BERNIE’S SMITTEN MITTENS MAPLE S’MORES STOUT
Despite milk-sugared maple syruping and chocolate-chipped cocoa, graham cracker, and marshmallow adjuncts, Bernie Sanders sendoff wreaked by weedy prune-soured cellar musk. Day-old coffee remnant and bitter anisette smidge don’t help.
O’FALLON CHAI PUMPKIN PORTER
Chai-spiced cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and clove illusions tingle thru ‘creamy latte’ midst (with a hint of anise). Dry chocolate roast persists.