Musty apricot-juiced entry picks up soda-fizzed cherry, grape and orange tartness above musky straw wheat spine. Herbal ginger-leafed sugaring, sweet cider spell and lemon tea nuance fill the gaps. Soft malt creaming adds gentle froth to washed-out apricot finish.
Generically inoffensive green-bottled yellow-cleared flat-headed pale lager brings delicate caramel malt creaming and corn-sugared cereal graining to grassy hop oiling. Soft-toned Russian suds will please less discrimating tastes only.
Unusual mocha-creamed saison drapes Belgian chocolate spicing atop cookie-sugared dried fruiting. Dessicated fig-dried apricot, fried banana, black grape and pecan pie illusions battle for space above tea-leafed peat mossing and murky hop astringency.
Mediocre yellow-cleared light body brings delicate sourdough yeast to sharp lemony hop bite and salted cracker spine. Gluey paper, cardboard and resin notions come and go.
Distinctive cola-hued sour milk stout hybridized by incipient bone-dry brettanomyces-like wild yeast lactose. Lemon rind-embittered espresso frontage and musty ground coffee veneer reach tart black cherry-soured midst, picking up acrid charcoal reminder. Vinous red and purple grape esters cover earthen bottom to tempting mocha-soured dried fruited finish.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, mouth-puckering chartreuse-hazed cherry lime sour ale recalls bitterer Berliner weiss styling. Oaken cherry tartness seeps into salty limestone acridity and white wheat base. Vinous lemon-juiced green and white grape tartness adds further souring to well-defined bone dry 2013 one-off.
Smoothly creamed coffee profile sweetens above heavy vanilla bean twist and dark chocolate roast of limited edition tawny amber malt beverage. Coffee ice cream theme lingers thru hickory-smoked rye, oats and barley malting and hop-charred hemp oiling. Ethiopian Sidamo coffee influence is profound, providing rich mocha access without getting gunky. Hazelnut coffee, caramel latte, amaretto, espresso and cocoa afterthoughts fly by.
Elaborate kiln-fired cherrywood and beechwood smokiness inundates outstanding grain-charred bock lager. Damp wood-burnt campfire aromatics surround brown-sugared chocolate malt roast, cured meat glaze and lemon Seltzer twist. Maple-sapped barbecued bacon sweetness and cedar-singed peat mossing deepen heavily smoked mocha finish. One of America’s best rauchbiers.
Strong Belgian-styled wheat ale (brewed in collaboration with De Struise) offers musty Muscat grape aromatics to banana nut-breaded sweetness and advertised floral spicing. Black-peppered rose, violet and jasmine niceties regal dried grape-skinned plum-fig-date backend.
Likable potato-starched Berliner wheat ale will please sour ale lovers. Scarce potato influence creates lactic alkaloid acidity for soured lemon juicing, vinous green grape tartness and salty lime pucker. Dry straw grass leathering brings further acridity to ancillary Granny Smith apple, gooseberry and oaken cherry illusions.
Soft-toned Belgian pilsner brings lemon-salted Saaz hop prickle to sweet orange peel zest, satisfying lighter thirsts with lower expectations. Delicately crisp mineral water soothe proves relaxingly invigorating. But clay-hopped herbal respite and sweet corn alacrity cannot fill the gaping hole minimizing the fragile citric finish.
Inessential English pale ale mushes spicy red apple, peach and grapefruit murk with phenol hop-oiled musk, becoming diacetyl at the citric-soured herbal cider finish. Soft mineral watering depleted by acetone metallic sheen.
