Sessionable English-styled brown ale stays mild as bittersweet cocoa-dried chocolate chalking slithers lightly alongside desiccated dried fruiting and ashen nutty respite. Walnut-seared hazelnut, chestnut and grape nut illusions scorched by coarse earthen hops to contrast muskily caramelized chocolate malting. An efficient English-styled pub ale for the proletariat.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, superb Belgian candi-sugared strong ale (well hidden 10% ABV) retains vanilla-creamed fruitfulness and funky herbal bittering. Honeyed peach, fig and raisin luster gains rummy banana daiquiri sweetness along with dried cherry, red grape, orange marmalade, honeydew and white-peppered Chardonnay illusions. A fruitily caramelized tripel with chewy viscosity and whiskey-stained alcohol finish that’s perfect as a rich dessert treat.
Dubiously “sophisticated” limited edition ’18 Grand Cru stays slick, bordering on cloy as its overripe peach syruping gains 12% ABV medicinal acridity. Ancillary prune-stewed apricot, fig and raisin illusions deepen alcohol-soaked pureed peach overtones. Strictly for Peach Madiera fans.
Dry pumpkin ale brings earthen gourd/ squash influence to sharp ginger herbage and muted cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice seasoning. Underwhelming 2018 autumnal release.
Creamy café-styled New England IPA caresses juicy Citra-hopped fruitiness with piquant vanilla beaned sweetness. Polite grapefruit-embittered orange peel tang shines brightly above bready pale malt base. Orange-sugared vanilla creaming recalls a Creamsickle. Mild Banana’s Foster, tangerine and peach illusions show up at the vibrant citrus finish.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, inscrutable anti-autumnal golden-hazed India Pale Ale boasts no seasonal pumpkin spicing but retains soured tropical fruiting and fungi-shadowed cucumber watering. Despite advertised blackberry boysenberry and grape influence, tartly soured mango-guava-pineapple illusions, lemon-rotted lime zest and wispy Sauvignon wining gain traction over light piney hop dankness. A weirdly eccentric hybridized IPA sour ale fans may grasp.
Crisply brisk East Coast-styled IPA lets sharp hop-spiced citrus zest spread across light pine resin and wispy floral herbage. Juicy grapefruit, orange and pineapple tang replete with ancillary mango, peach, tangerine and melon illusions above dainty caramelized oats.
Tart raspberry adjunct given sharp orange-peeled grapefruit pith bittering and piney hop resin (indicative of an India Pale Ale). At the finish, mild strawberry rhubarb and berry tea illusions graft its polite raspberry piquancy.
Honey-dipped, double dry-hopped, New England-styled, golden-hazed India Pale Ale retains candied caramel glaze for tangy orange-peach, grapefruit, mango and pineapple juiciness. Along the way, brown pear and apple illusions dot the honeyed tropical fruiting. Resinous piney hop bittering stays mellow.
Straightahead West Coast-styled IPA offers lively citrus-derived Cascade hop briskness to mild pine resin. Floral-spiced pineapple juiciness pervades pleasant orange-peeled grapefruit bittering. Biscuity pilsner malts lighten the backend.
Askew dry-hopped IPA with peach and Tavalon oolong tea (and bright hazy golden hue) retains a busy mix that takes time to fully unfold. Sharp IPA fruiting brings yellow grapefruit-seeded orange peel bittering to earthen black tea influence and mild peach tones. Floral-tinged sage, bay leaf and parsley herbage lightly integrates with brisk citric hop profusion above gentle rice-flaked white wheat backbone.
Rustic olfactory musk infiltrates moderately embittered West Coast-styled IPA, leaving mossy earthen dryness upon floral-wafted Citra-Cascade-hopped citrus tang and spritzy tropical fruiting as mildly piney Simcoe-Amarillo-hopped dankness increases. Lemony orange-peeled grapefruit zestiness and mild mango-guava-papaya nuances linger above pale malt spine.
