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.
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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.
O’FALLON PUMPKIN SEED OKTOBERFEST
Contrasting toasted pumpkin seed salting and musty orange oiling against sweet cinnamon-nutmeg spiced pumpkin pie crust, briny gourd-ridden autumnal moderation lets leafy hop astringency seep into corn-sugared Vienna malt grist.
BACK EAST PORTER
Compact chestnut brown porter closer to a nut brown ale as its charred walnut bittering and ashen hop sear counter sweet almond-chestnut subtleties in wavering chocolate-roasted caramel setting.
OXBOW TOWN LINE PORTER
Peaty spelt wheat redirects coffee-roasted black chocolate bittering a tad as cedar-smoked molasses, glazed pecan, hazelnut cake and dark cherry illusions drift thru dry anise-spiced midst. At the smoked mocha finish lies brown buttered spelt chocolate cookie remnant.
LITTLE WILLOW MR. BROWN ALE
Mellow cocoa nibs bank nutty caramel roast and muted dark fruiting above bread-crusted chocolate oats base.
