Give New Belgium collaboration a higher grade if genuinely appreciative of uncertain whiskey-soured orange rot plot. Horse-blanketed brettanomyces funk inundates citric tartness, vinous cider pucker, mild earthen minerality and coarsely carbolic hops. Tangerine, clementine and navel orange undertones provoke winey green-yellow grape esters and bruised apricot-peach niche.
Well balanced and fairly complex farmhouse-styled Belgian IPA collides barnyard-wafted graining with herbaceous citric pining to sweet honeyed malt backdrop. Lemon-candied citron hops dig deep into piney grapefruit entry, picking up earthen wheatgrass, alfalfa, whey, hay and oats minerality. Sour grape-skinned pineapple, mango and marmalade illusions waver.
Heightened sessionable medium-bodied IPA overloads woodsy pine bittering atop juicy-fruited expectancy. Tangy tangerine, nectarine, pineapple, apricot, apple, mango and melon illusion further embittered by juniper-soaked grapefruit rind and pungently skunked hop oiling. Ancillary spruce, maple and bark undertones increase woody tangent.
Bold hop-head hybrid may lack true raisin flavoring, but its loud lemon-peeled grapefruit rind bittering and piney hop bite make up for the casual oversight. Fresh-cut grass wafts through ancillary mandarin orange, yellow grape, pineapple, mango and fig fruiting. Black-peppered earthen moss and skunky cannibas deepen its rangy profile and the aspirin-like medicinal pungency reinforces its bitter edge.
Smoothly silken slow sipper, aged in oak barrels, brings wood-charred bourbon spicing to chocolate-browned vanilla sweetness and wine-soaked dried fruiting. Lightly creamed molasses malting enriches raisin-pureed black cherry compote midst before reaching dark chocolate cordial cherry peak (contrasted by slight ashen earth reminder). Bourbon, burgundy and brandy boozing fades off. Toasted almond, hazelnut, coconut, purple grape and chocolate mousse illusions round out the busy backend. Sweet anise waft adds black licorice presence not detectable in tapped version. On tap at Capital Alehouse, oak-charred dried fruiting enriches bourbon-wined mocha frontage. Fudgy molasses creaminess thickens oaken vanilla, dusty cocoa and milky coconut illusions. Chocolate-covered cherry and raisin notions as well as wispy dark rum undertones find tertiary space.
Opulent ‘Double Extreme Imperial Stout’ brings indeterminable wheat influence to molasses-smoked dark-roasted malting and peaty hop-charred nuttiness. Well-balanced black chocolate, black licorice, black coffee and vanilla conflux defines creamy mahogany-hued full body. Rum-spiced bourbon-burgundy wining, sweetly soured raisin-prune-cherry niche and soy-sauced espresso milking found beneath thick mocha surface.