Soft-toned pinkish amber fruit ale sits flat on the tongue as tart raspberry puree piquancy gains dusty floral sweetness over barley-malted white wheat base. Raspy raspberry onrush gains watermelon, pink lemonade, pink grapefruit and orange illusions, but tepid washed-out finish needs spritzy kick.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
SIXPOINT GLOBAL WARMER
On tap at Growler & Gill, hop-forward winter warmer drapes lemony grapefruit, pineapple, peach and orange tang upon piney hop resin and toasted caramel malting. In recess, pear, melon and cantaloupe illusions gain luster.
J. WAKEFIELD / AGAINST THE GRAIN JAMAICAN ME SWAYZE
On tap at Ambulance, boundary-defying smoked sour Berliner Weiss (collaboration with Against The Grain) renders peat-smoked Band-Aid-like astringency to tart Jamaican pimento-wooded peach and plum adjuncts, picking up salty lemon-limed pucker at the mildly acidic wood-dried sour fruited finish. Dry plum wine fanatics take note.
KNEE DEEP DEAN’S ENGLISH MILD
On tap at Growler & Gill, nebulous 3.1% mild ale offers dewy peat restraint and crisp tobacco wisp to latent orange-dried piquancy above meek caramel malt base.
KCBC MONSIEUR MANIAC BELGIAN PILSNER
On tap at Ambulance, mildly pungent beige-yellowed Belgian-styled pilsner drinks like a robust German lager as musky grains infiltrate mildly spiced lemony grapefruit respite and salty herbal lemongrass snip. Any Belgian yeast influence buried beneath wet-grained musk.
FLYING MONKEYS SMASHBOMB ATOMIC IPA
Smashing Canadian IPA puts forth a dominant flavor profile as massively tangy fruit juicing receives booming piney hop bittering and responsive sugar-glassed crystal malting above toasted biscuit base. Resonating tropical-citrus fruiting gathers passionfruit, grapefruit, pineapple, navel orange, tangerine, mango, nectarine, papaya, lychee, pear and melon bouquet to power its atomic blissfulness.
ALESMITH SPEEDWAY STOUT – NIBS & BEANS
On tap at Taphouse 15, fabulous variation on renowned year-round Speedway Stout features rich Madagascar vanilla beans, bittersweet Brazilian cocoa nibs and locally roasted Colombian coffee for highly caffeinated sedation. At finish, dark-roasted mocha magnificence rides above nutty earthen bottom.
EXCEL SOUTHSIDE STOUT
Rich cocoa-powdered black chocolate syruping coats caramel-burnt anise goo and dusky charred hop bittering. Muddy mocha midst picks up dirty earthiness and fades to gray.
SIXPOINT C.R.E.A.M. COFFEE BLONDE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15. A bit slick compared to richer coffee-infused golden ales making the rounds circa ’17. Moderate cold-brewed coffee tone gains mild lemon rind bittering and distant cola nuttiness to contrast mellow milk-sugared sweetness.
SIXPOINT HOLIDAY OLD ALE
Muddled Irish Stout mildly bourbon-aged then blended with an English porter and dark-lagered schwarzbier seems unresolved, taste-wise. Subdued brown chocolate malting receives leathery tobacco roast, dewy peat earthiness and nutty respite for off-dry medium body that may lack stylistic conclusiveness, but never offends.
SIXPOINT STUMPED
Light maple syruping subtly affects mildly spiced dried fruiting, cocoa-powdered nuttiness and cellar-like dewy mustiness of satisfactory moderation.
MUSKOKA PB & C STOUT
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, creamy dark-roast peanut powdering rises above black-malted dark chocolate richness, nut-charred coffee bittering and dank earthen base. Possible sweet whiskey nip.
