While pouring former Blanche des Honnelles, heavy carbolic fizz overflows sour yeast eminence. In fine tradition of grape-vinous white-wined Belgian ales, cloudy rust-hued full body submits aromatic citrus tang to spicy floral hops and herbal mint tinge.
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ABITA PILSNER
Pure spring water, sweet mocha aroma-palate, and thick barleymalt mustiness form the core of brownish red Big Easy beer. Soft coffee notes and earthy grain backdrop descend upon watered down version of a bland porter.
AECHT SCHLENKERLA RAUCHBIER MARZEN
Dark amber-grained ‘rauch’ beer stays creamier than drier Aecht smoked beers. Beechwood-smoked peat malts gain hard salami slab absorbed by maple honey nut easement conveying heady sweetness to dried cocoa repsite. Sappy pine-combed hop toastiness bastes omnipresent wafting cedar-redwood sear. Strangley, at busy cured meat finish, hints of cherry rhubarb pie or tangelo detected.
ALASKAN OATMEAL STOUT
From the Great White North comes this sturdy black-hued brown-headed brisk-watered hop-toasted stout. Sweet mocha barleymalt richness, honeyed oats essence, and mineralized cereal graining enliven silken ash tongue. Not nearly as heavy as mahogany appearance indicates, yet second only to heralded Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout.
ALLAGASH DUBBEL RESERVE ALE
Captivating billowy tan-headed mahogany-bodied energizer extends fizzy bitter-spiced spritz to floral wheat insurgence and chocolate malt finish. Butternut coercion anchors dry cork backdrop.
ALPINE ALE
Pastoral golden-hued pale ale loses creamy luster as head fades. Bittersweet Cascade-hopped apricot-tangerine-grapefruit tang stays above honeyed cereal oats base, fading at clean metallic finish. Fair lawnmower fodder.
ANCHOR OLD FOGHORN BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE
Handmade auburn-hued San Franciscan hits frontal lobe quickly with honeyed fruit prevalence, succulent whiskey-cognac sweetness, and spice-hopped codicil. Roasted malt foundation anchors zesty bruised cherry surge and red grape-apricot-raisin dip. Flush barleywine finish provokes comparison to bolder French-Belgian ales with higher aspirations.
(ANDELOT) CUVEE EUPHORIQUE BLONDE ALE
Hazy yellow-orange medium body with yeasty viscosity yields salient honey-dipped banana fizz outlining clove-coriander hem and prudent nectarine-apricot tang. Mighty citric hop zest and moderate herbal notch add further resiliency.
ANDREW’S ENGLISH PALE ALE
Bright citric nose enjoins soothing barley-oats confluence, dry pumpernickel-rye reminder, and distant piney floral hints as sourdough sways upward. Minor juicy grapefruit souring embitters cocoa malts, consuming dense alcoholic acidity.
(ANHEUSER-BUSCH) ZIEGEN BOCK
Houston Bud factory promotes this coppery amber bock disappointment. Phenol hop nose, lurking malt souring, and cardboard texture displace off-dry nuttiness and muted prune decline.
ARCADIA COCOA LOCO STOUT
Voracious dark-roasted espresso theme forms above lactic black chocolate and smoked molasses. Oily coffee resin sidles roasted hops, flaked barley, and toasted cereal oats as purple grape esters pierce tart cherry puree reminder, adding to well-balanced robustness.
ASAHI SUPER DRY DRAFT PILSNER
Typical rice-aided Japanese beer goes down smooth and easy. Thin lead ingredients appear to be rice and barley. But Japan’s “Super Dry’ #1 beer is so clean it barely leaves a delicate sourdough-malted cereal graining. In one-quart can, tinny water presence outlasts corn-starched grain ebb.