Creamy chocolate richness softened by smooth water texture and amiable hop touch. Exceedingly clean light-bodied stout offers modest change of pace. Brewery defunct: 2002.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
KEYSTONE ICE
Insipid tin-canned ice-brewed version of rancid lager is flatter and more offensive than already lowered expectations. Decrepitly metallic corn-oiled sorghum frontage, pungent solvent-like oxidization, and stale breading ruined further by tepid malt liquor-like skunking of queasy 6% alcohol refuse.
KINGFISHER LIGHT LAGER
Malted barley sweetness, smoked hop bittering, and wispy lemony snicker consume front end of unassuming lightweight. Bread-y yeast nuance underscores neutral finish.
KIRIN LAGER
Well-hopped, smoothed-out, full-bodied German-styled beer with flattened rice-grained richness lacks expectant creamy malt froth and proper perfume-hopped kick. A better-than-average lager.
KONINGSHOEVEN DUBBEL TRAPPIST ALE
Middling sienna-hued Trappist ale opens with textural raisin-prune palate embracing caramelized butterscotch sweetness. Herbal hops dance on the tongue as sinewy yeast persistence secures elegant barleywine finish.
KUHNHENN DEVILS HORN
Recommended tiny suburban brewpub bottles this respectable Belgian lambic-like ale for walk-in customers. Deep cherry tartness fortifies dry oak tangent and grape tannin souring as candied yeast sweetens oncoming green apple pucker. Orange peel bitterness persists, jamming raspberry-melon auxiliary and syrupy malt thicket.
(NOVA PAKA) KUMBURAK BOHEMIAN LAGER
Peculiar blend of wood burnt smokiness and sinewy yeast souring forms abstruse musty grain-toasted India Pale Ale-like palate. Slim orange-lemon peel bittering combats hop-charred charcoal finish. Completely unlike any lager you’ve encountered.
LABATT’S ICE
Miserable pale-toned pearl-headed alcohol-scorned oil-canned ice brew negatively affected by horrid corn syrup mouthfeel and scuzzy malt pungency. Flatulent fizz flattens forgettable flimsy finish.
LAGUNITAS BROWN SHUGGA
Exemplary barleywine coalesces bittersweet spruce-hopped orange-tangerine tang with ripe melon, cherry, red grape, and fig-prune nuances, becoming medicinal as almond wine succulence secures alcohol-smitten oaken dryness. Chewy malt sugaring renders creamy maple, molasses, and cookie dough richness.
LAGUNITAS SIRIUS CREAM ALE
Exquisitely full-bodied hazy golden amber libation seamlessly merges pleasant floral hop bitterness with dense honeydew-orange-grapefruit wallop and residual candied sugar sweetness, besting meagerly cream ale competition with its eccentric cornucopia of fruits, spices, and grains. Peppery herbs are scattered across tropical kiwi-mango flourish, sappy honey continuance, piney resin goo, and eventually, an earthen mineral-like mustiness. Sterling.
LAKEFRONT RIVERWEST STEIN LAGER
Appealing amber-glowed yellow-tinted dry lager surrounds wheat-cracked barley-toasted sweetness with mildly hopped orange-apricot-peach tang and soured cherry tartness. Honeyed malt finish brings out herbal tea, tobacco, and cola nut hints.
LAKE TAHOE NUT BROWN WINTER ALE
Extremely sour raisin-fig frontage encounters vinous mouth-puckering gueuze-like grape esters before burnt coffee acridity pushes forward. Raw cocoa-chocolate malt astringency annuls tepid walnut-hazelnut inadequacy and barren winter spicing. Brewery defunct: 2003.