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Category Archives: Beers A-Z
BREWERY HILL PALE ALE
Brewery Hill makes consistent easy-to-drink brews. And this sweet-scented, deep amber-toned “kettle-hopped” pale ale’s no exception. Wispy caramel-chocolate sash leads to lusty barleywine palate. Fizzy orange blossom midst picks up speckled nutmeg-cinnamon spicing. Durable sour yeast sinew emerges, lining the tongue with latent honeyed butterscotch illusions.
BRISTOL’S LAUGHING LAB SCOTTISH-STYLE ALE
Pleasant tobacco leaf opening absorbed by sour coffee beans, syrupy molasses malts, and dried fig-raisin confluence of prune-hued dark ale. Debonair spiced hop sentiment quells baker’s chocolate bitterness, rye-pumpernickel braze, and honeyed pecan-hazelnut glaze. Too tamely turbid for heavyweight Scottish class, yet wholly satisfied.
BROOKLYN MONSTER ALE 2000
Blustery black cherry tang dominates thick-headed, though less filling, specialty ale. Musty wine sweetness, neat floral bouquet, and fruity adjuncts animate rich barleymalts for heady feast.
(BROUGHTON) KINMOUNT WILLIE OATMEAL STOUT
Prim obsidian-bodied, tan-laced, red-tinted dry stout supports smoked hickory theme with roasted mocha malting, bitter black coffee moderation, and deep-grained efficiency. Chalky chocolate, bruised cherry, and dehydrated raisin coat tobacco-roasted peat bottom to mild oatmeal finish. Debonair Scottish dark ale maintains lighter appeal than most oatmeal stouts.
BUFFALO BILL’S PUMPKIN ALE (INITIAL VERSION)
Preeminent in its stylistic nobility (until macrobrewed by contract brewery ’round 2011), smoked salami-scented hop-fueled ale settles into delectable pumpkin pie permanence after cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice gleefully dance on malt-lacquered tongue. Ashy tobacco leaf and burnt wood chips linger in distance of perfect Halloween aperitif.
BUTTERFIELD BRIDALVEIL AMBER ALE
Sugared mocha malts perk up steadfast amber. Mildly creamy laid-back casualness is its own reward, as maple-sapped vanilla and butterscotch illusions sweeten grainy backdrop. A true lightweight champ.
CALEDONIAN DOUBLE DARK ALE
Earthen reddish-hued dark ale with moderate raisin-date tartness and superb hop-spiced barley-roasted oats-dried caramel malting defers stylistic mocha expectancy. Mellow, relaxing, and refined without becoming too sweet or overbearingly strong.
CANADIAN MAPLE LEAF LAGER
Tepid amber-clouded mocha-scented lager with unassuming hop fizz fades gently to mild pale malt finish.
CAPITAL OKTOBERFEST
Dry orange mouthfeel and soft focus hop presence form front end of faded white-headed penny-hued autumnal brew. Raisin bread midst fades quickly. A bit staid and predictable yet easygoing, tart, frothy.
CARIB ROYAL EXTRA STOUT
Nicknamed “Lion Stout,” brown-bodied barleywine-like Caribbean backs sugary sweet soda-like flow with boorish malt roast and toffee stickiness. But instead of depending on traditional mocha-like stout character, its medicinally cloy finish comes up too lame to be the wild beast its moniker pertains to.
CAROLINA PALE ALE
Clear yellow-hued ale counters crystal malt sweetness with toasted hop dryness as soured floral yeast and negligible citric undertones provide mild IPA-like bitterness.