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.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
HARPOON GRATEFUL HARVEST CRANBERRY ALE
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.
LANDMARK VANILLA BEAN BROWN ALE
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.’
LVIVSKE 1715 PREMIUM LAGER
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.
NERREBROS JULEBRYG
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.
NEW HOLLAND HOPIVORE MICHIGAN WET-HOPPED HARVEST ALE
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.
NOGNE O PECULIAR YULE – 2010
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.
ROGUE MOGUL MADNESS ALE
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.
(SHMALTZ) HE’BREW VERTICAL JEWBELATION BARREL AGED ALE
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.
SHMALTZ JEWBELATION FOURTEEN
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.
21ST AMENDMENT HOP CRISIS DOUBLE IPA
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.
(UINTA) TILTED SMILE IMPERIAL PILSNER
Hapless ‘big beer’ proves out of range for commonplace Utah brewer. Dubious sunny yellow-hazed medium body lacks body and character of exalted Imperial class. Brawny Saaz-hopped pilsner-malted citric-honeyed astringency corrupts grassy black-peppered bittering. Detrimental lemon-rotted orange-juiced souring and soapy cabbage-like vegetal acridity run rampant above frail peach-apple whim. Pass.