Well-balanced autumnal offering laces spritzy cinnamon-spiced caramel malting with leafy hop foliage and wispy pecan nuttiness over mildly earthen bottom. Easygoing seasonal fare for the masses.
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SIERRA NEVADA / WEIHENSTEPHAN OKTOBERFEST 2018
Fairly distinguished collaboration with masterful German brewery stays crisply clean as balanced blend of sweetly caramelized Vienna malts, leafy Sterling hop foliage and wet-papered autumnal spices leave rounded mouthfeel.
HIJINX VERANO BLONDE ALE
Lively blonde moderation brewed with lime and orange zest bursts forth with citric resilience. Limey orange-peeled grapefruit pith bite receives light piney hop bittering and dry pale malting. Brisk, clean, citrus-forward delight outdoes its usually nebulous stylistic competitors.
SOUTHERN TIER 8 DAYS A WEEK BLONDE ALE
“Infinitely drinkable” moderation. Easygoing floral-daubed lemon zing gains mild straw-dried buttered corn salting and biscuit-honeyed pilsner malt breading. Too modest even for its light-bodied style.
STRAUB WILD BOY INDIA PALE LAGER
Fine dry moderation blends IPA-like citrus sharpness with cold-conditioned lager yeast. Floral-spiced lemony grapefruit tang gains light pine resin before tea-honeyed pale malts conquer earthen wood respite.
DEVILS BACKBONE REVENGE OF MARINER BARLEYWINE
Subtle Grand Marnier barrel aging provides light orange-candied liqueur syruping for buttery oak-toasted barleywine (with incredibly unassuming 13.1% ABV). Delicate white wine esters and cognac brandy sweetening penetrate the pilsner malted bottom.
DEVILS BACKBONE PEAR LAGER
Summery citrus sheen outlasts understated tart pear adjunct contrasting grassy hop astringency. Citric-doused pear subtlety gains wispy white-wined cider snip above light doughy malts.
KEEGAN HUDSON LAGER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, crisply clean yellow-cleared moderation brings polite bread-like pilsner malting to effervescent lemon zest and musky floral-nipped herbage. Brisk carbolic spritz enlivens simple pleasure.
YUENGLING GOLDEN PILSNER
Simple lawnmower fare. Spritzy lemon spicing easily glides into buttery cereal-grained biscuit malts and floral-wafted grassy hop astringency.
CARTON BASIC COFFEE
“Simpler version of golden coffee cream ale” finished with espresso-roasted blend of Sumatran, Columbian and Ethipian coffee beans picks up sharp cinnamon, allspice, ginger, cardamom and mace spicing as well as brisk orange zest. Ancillary cappuccino, caramel latte, vanilla latte and maple-syruped French Toast illusions abound. Carton’s Regular Coffee base – utilized previously for fabulous offshoots like Irish Coffee, Kaffee and Kuchen and Café Corretto – proves magnanimous again.
REVOLUTION STRAIGHT JACKET BARLEYWINE (2018)
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, serene bourbon molasses syruping saddles brown-sugared black cherry, raisin, date and fig opulence that seeps into vanilla-spiced toasted coconut adjunct. A fine English-styled Chicago barleywine nearing perfection.
REVOLUTION JAMO-NILLA NITRO VANILLA IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, silken Jameson Irish whiskey barrel aging glazes creamily bourbon-sweetened vanilla bean prominence and serene brown chocolate spicing of excellent nitrogenated stout. Smoked black malts provide modest bittering to contrast honey-smoked Jameson whiskey warmth.
