On tap at 381 Main, soft-tongued cream ale collaboration with Asheville’s Burial lets aromatic ‘vanilla cake battering’ sweeten honeyed orange-tangerine tartness and dainty Scotch licks. Moderate salted miso influence contrasts mildly creamed vanilla stead.
On tap at Burger Loft, wildly popular juicily fruited ‘lupulin-laden’ Imperial IPA guides tangy pineapple, mango, grapefruit, orange and tangerine tropicalia above fulsome floral bouquet, grassy hop astringency and earthen wood dankness. Resiliently bright sunshiny effervescence gathers strength at briskly clean fruit-punched finish.
On tap at 381 Main, likable Galaxy-hopped medium body comes across like an English-styled IPA as dewy peat soiling and leafy earthiness override spicy navel orange tartness. Light passionfruit, kiwi and papaya undertones via Galaxy hopping.
On tap at 381 Main, dry Imperial IPA provides peachy tangerine tang with juniper-licked herbal licks, resinous pine oiling and murky vegetal whims.
On tap at 381 Main, bold 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA plies zesty lemony orange-tangerine tang to pine-needled hop bittering, dark-roasted wheat malts and mildly creamed sugar spicing. Ancillary grapefruit, mango and peach illusions add fruitful depth.
On tap at Burger Loft, dominant Simcoe-hopped bittering brings wood-dried citric fruiting to the fore. Steadfast grapefruit and orange rind bittering soaks into fresh-cut grassiness as moderate oaked pine parch settles below.
Sturdy 2017 dry-hopped spring seasonal utilizes highly carbolic lager yeast to re-create San Francisco-styled steam beer. Mildly bitter citric spritz seeps into delicately pungent resinous hop astringency. Lemony grapefruit spurt and teasing fig-date conflux linger lightly above grainy earthen malts.
On tap at Denny’s Beer Barrel, fulsome dessert treat tastes like a Mounds Bar with its toasted coconut upheaval, dark chocolate sugaring and nutty coffee retreat. Beneath the mocha-coconut assemblage lies mild cocoa nibs, marshmallow and salted peanut illusions. Decadent.
On tap at Denny’s Beer Barrel, decadent 28th Anniversary Imperial Porter tweaks molasses-sapped bourbon vanilla with milk chocolate-y cocoa nibs and peat-smoked wheat malts. Sweet orange peel adjunct seeps below the mix. Subsidiary toasted coconut, roasted tobacco, pureed raspberry, blueberry and port illusions add resilience to boozy (11.5% ABV) to oak-barreled dessert.
On tap at Denny’s Beer Barrel, quirky amber-reddish saison appeases smoked beechwood aspect with sour cherry tartness and sourdough wheat base. Lemony strawberry-cranberry bittering and vinous white grape subtlety settle softly behind cherry rhubarb pie continuance.
On tap at Denny’s Beer Barrel, easygoing Citra-Cascade-hopped pale ale brings spicy grapefruit, pineapple and orange tang to delicate carapils malting, leaving light phenol tones at the finish.
On tap at Benny’s Beer Barrel, ‘rowdy’ pale ale lets subtle candi-sugared Belgian yeast further sweeten tropical mango-peach-pineapple punch above lacquered pine hop oiling, sedate floral notions and pale rye wheat malts. In the backend, phenol lemon-peeled herbage merges with mildly oxidized astringency. Not as untamed as advertised, but enjoyably fruit-juiced.
