Mocha-fruited hazy brown ‘abbey dubbel’ with lucid port-burgundy nose enriched by sweet ‘n sour prune-dried chocolate frontage. Raisin-date-fig midst and ester-y black grape footnote fight back dank cellar mustiness to sharp nutty bottom, insulating lactose malt sinew.
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(BURTON BRIDGE) EMPIRE INDIA PALE ALE
Label celebrates game of cricket; strong liquid inside signifies great English IPA tradition. Heavily carbonated viscous rust setting with suspended yeast particles given burnt wood tone and orange peel smidgen for initial assertion. Definitive hop bitterness consumes smoked malt finish as lusty butterscotch awakening battles back sulfuric acerbity.
BUZZARDS BAY STOCK ALE
CAMERON’S STRONGARM RUBY RED ALE
Elegant burgundy-cleared chocolate-wafted English pale ale provides dry Scotch malt frontage with roasted hop gust and tangy citric-cherry allure to cracked wheat bottom. Meager caramel apple stint and cocoa-tea-tobacco hints lost in soured prune midst. By finish, watered down Scotch blotch brought down a notch.
CANTILLON ROSE DE GAMBRINUS
Brewed with sour raspberries – though difficult to detect at mouth-puckering front end. Spontaneous fermentation provides strong alcohol luster, but watery texture becomes problematic. Tart berry fruitiness lost amongst indistinct adjuncts. Mild oaken musk, musty farmhouse funk and dry champagne fizz get acrid. Only seasoned drinkers with a taste for the unexpected will appreciate this improbable dry rosé.
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE SMOKE FROM THE OAK – WINE
Smoky oak-aged wine-barreled mahogany-hued porter gains vinous Merlot density and soured cider tartness above burnt hickory spell. Dry port-burgundy midst reinforces tannic white grape, sour black cherry, and pipe tobacco illusions. Faintest black chocolate malting further embitters charred timber recess.
(CARLSBERG) JACOBSEN DARK LAGER
(CASCO BAY) CARRABASSETT SUMMER ALE
(CASTELAIN) ST. AMAND FRENCH COUNTRY ALE
CAVE CREEK CHILI LAGER
CHAPEAU FRAISES LAMBIC
Spontaneously fermented oak-aged jam-scented lambic with sweet strawberry juice essence, rotted cherry luster and tauntingly tart grape esters given slight mesquite wood tone. Closer to syrupy malt beverage or fruity red wine than beer or ale (and unsettling to true blue collar drinkers). So strawberry enriched you could almost taste the seeds from the fruit.