Pee-yellow billowy-headed lightweight Slovenian smells like pizza and garnishes a slight metallic spiciness at the back of the tongue. Bleary corn-sugared malt sweetness lingers ’til softly hopped dirty grain finish gets watery.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
USHERS INDIA PALE ALE
Deep golden ale with unassuming waft, washed-out citrus sweetness, and extremely flaccid water flow lacks sufficient bite. Charred wood chip bitterness at orange-grapefruit finish gives it slight edge over weaker competitors.
VELTINS TRADITION PILSNER
In unique wide-bodied green bottle, traditional pale-yellowed German pils stifled by diffident sour malt aromatics, unmemorable soft-watered barley-hop essence, and bland citric-quince nip. Musky maize acridity counters sinewy corn sugaring. Only amateurs need apply.
VICTORY PRIMA PILS
Perfumed floral-citrus aromatics, sharp nutty grain consistency, and extreme Noble-hopped pine-lacquered orange rind finish define excellent German-styled pilsner that’ll remind bitter hop-heads of a classic India Pale Ale. Gooey caramel malting sweetens syrupy peach-pear conflux, lemon-curried ambrosia tartness, and grapefruit-peeled apricot-tangerine regalia. Floral lavender-rosebud-sunflower wisp and dry grassy astringency complete world class pils.
WACHUSETT OCTOBERFEST
Fruited coppery autumnal merriment situates zesty red apple, purple grape, and brown pear ripeness atop redolent pumpkin-spiced floral hops to buttery biscuit-y malt spine. Comfy toasted barley, cracked wheat, and dry tobacco efficacy fortifies peach-y pineapple sweetness and caressing almondine dash.
WAGNER VALLEY SUMMER SAIL HEFEWEIZEN
Tiny yeast sediment dots tawny opaque body. Soured tangerine-peach fruitiness and clove spicing resonate through smoked wheat backbone. A bit offbeat.
WATNEY’S CREAM STOUT
Polite maple sap scent, rich burgundy palate, brown-sugared cocoa chalking, oncoming prune sourness, and roasted barley thickness consume savory lactose-aided deep brown-hued sipping stout. Some addictive characteristics reminiscent of Watney’s Red Barrel persist: blood-thickened mouthfeel; exquisite hop bouquet; and lusty caramel malts. Sweet milk chocolate creaminess soothes rather than dominates for an exceptional stout so heavily yeast-fermented and viscously full-bodied only the keg version could beat.
WEINHARD’S ICE ALE
The original Blue Boar brand mixes ‘classic hand-crafted ale with the crisp, smooth finish of authentic ice brewing.’ But this ain’t no quality brew, folks. Skunky malt aroma and cloudy pale hue mismatched against unexpected cloying nature similar to Rolling Rock (sans the creaminess and dank yeast finish). Serve only to novice ale dabblers.
WEYERBACHER BLACK HOLE ALE
Inviting mahogany-hued dark ale suffuses dry mocha-chocolate frontage with sugary caramel-toffee-molasses sweetness, hemming in burnt oak, iced coffee, and raisin-fig twinge. Casual espresso notes deepen nutty grain finish of viable porter-styled humdinger.
WEYERBACHER 1995-2007 TWELVE ANNIVERSARY ALE
Gallant rye barleywine celebrates a dozen years’ brewing with sweet Irish whiskey frontage, mild Courvoisier midst, and buttery Chardonnay finish. Sweet floral-tinged orange-tangerine tang thins out considerably, but lush liquor lacquering lingers.
WIDMER HOP JACK PALE ALE
Frisky amber-hued organic fruit and grain-styled ale so typical of Northwest brewers. Initial hop bitterness, beckoning toasted barley sweetness, and distant burnt wood sensation give way to lively spiced malt finish.
WILD GOOSE PUMPKIN PATCH ALE
Lamentable limited ’06 release finds astringent Fuggle-hopped bittering and woody alcohol burn overwhelming expectant autumnal pumpkin theme of clear coppery dry body. Spicy pumpkin pie gloss fades considerably as moldy cooked vegetable funk weakens peppered clove and herbal tea illusions obscuring brown sugared cinnamon-nutmeg-ginger whir. Biscuit-y wheat backbone and squash-like finish need better profundity.