Rewarding dark Belgian-styled ale with dry-fruited spicing and smoked cocoa malting blitzing dramatic rum-sugared bourbon, burgundy, and Merlot wining. Subsequent earthen grape-stemmed fig-date-prune souring receives cocoa-powdered black chocolate reverberation buttressing mild orange peel bittering.
Honeyed grain toasting and candied citrus dollop top phenol-hopped sharpness and fresh-watered pleasantry. Mild butterscotch swoop and tart lemon custard snoop drape minor pineapple-peach tease. Sour-doughed white-breaded spine reminiscent of sweet moderate-bodied Munich pilsner.
Mildly astringent compost-wafted Thanksgiving-styled fruit ale lacks distinct character profile. Meek cranberry tartness, ester-y grape souring, and residual Vienna malt sugaring lost to phenol hop coarsening. Red cherry, raspberry and strawberry sweetness found in deep recess of easygoing moderate-bodied auburn ale. White-breaded spine falters badly.
Bereft English-styled brown ale contract brewed by Buffalo’s Flying Bison. Advertised Madagascar vanilla bean bittering hidden beneath prominent hazelnut coffee theme. Unpleasant dirty earthiness trails maple-sapped molasses influence and minor toasted nuttiness. A little thin and fragile compared to larger hop-roasted chocolate-doused ‘Brownies.’
Vile pale-toned medium-bodied Ukrainian contrasts cloy corn-sugared malting against grassy hop astringency and cheap maize-oiled hindrance. Rotted citric nuance sneaks through backdoor.
Blunt Danish-styled Christmas-seasoned spice ale with viscous rust hue and creamy texture in stark contrast to blanched phenol flavor profile. Coarse prune-fig souring, dry burgundy whir, and green raisin snip get metallic. Sooty wood-smoked dampness undoes any traditional cinnamon-nutmeg spicing.
Gruff wet-hopped autumnal ale stylistically approaches proper English Extra Bitter. Leafy hop resin drips into burnt-toasted mineral-grained rye-dried earthen fungi. Sugary cocoa sweetness, tea-like bittering and slack citric pinch lost in sea of dank-watered swill.
Obtuse 2010 Christmas seasonal with off-putting shaving cream waft and ruddy brownish hue lacks traditional sugar spicing and boozy warmth. Herbal spearmint-rosemary-thyme quip negates ginger-cinnamon-nutmeg glance and cocoa-chocolate malting.
Bold brown-hazed winter warmer classified as Black India Pale Ale, but closer to English Extra Special Bitter. Blunt cocoa-creamed chocolate spicing and nutted fig-date influx flutter through resinous pine bittering. But gruff alcohol pungency overwhelms tertiary dried cherry, raisin bread, and citric herbal illusions.
Venerable rye-whiskey barreled elixir combines all seven Jewbelation recipes for richly contoured complexity. Creamy whiskey warmth strikes early, seeping into boisterous chocolate-smoked vanilla malting and tenacious liqueur-soaked crème brulee sashay. Purple-red grape esters and black cherry ripeness strengthen tertiary bourbon-sherry illusions. Phenomenal.
An avalanche of fourteen malts and fourteen hops plus brash 14% alcohol strength reinforce labyrinthine 14th anniversary barleywine celebrator. Heavy whiskey malting thickens lactic creaminess. Chocolate cake, Bacardi rum cake, and vanilla truffle decadence ensues. Sticky anise gets all over cocoa-buttered cookie dough center, cherry-pureed stewed prune swoon, and maple-oatmeal cereal graining. Wood-burnt hop roast embitters chewy mocha panorama.
Astonishing hazy copper double India Pale Ale strengthened by well-hidden 10.8% alcohol thrust is named in homage to 2009 hop shortage in America. Sugary caramel malting and sweet peach-tangerine-cantaloupe fruiting efficiently contrasted by piney resin-hopped orange-peeled grapefruit-juiced bittering. Crisp watered flow and mild spruce-tipped freshness allow lighter drinkers to enjoy its zesty punch alongside veritable hopheads.
