Inoffensive dry-bodied lightweight skims butterscotch register across soft cereal-grained backbone. Wafting floral hop sprocket affords softest yellow fruit wisp. Reticent honey nut aspect stays distant.
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(TRAVERSE) STOUT
Beautiful cascading bubbles surge from mahogany body to tan head, creating visual pleasure deplorable hop-grained acridity ruins. Disappointingly, pungent oak-dried cherry sourness and ester-y white grape pucker form acidic demeanor further burdened by burnt coffee smear.
TROEGS TROEGENATOR DOUBLE BOCK
Heavenly juicy-fruited medium-bodied dark amber may lack alcoholic chocolate-rimmed citric-dried inertia of richer bock competition, but fig-spiced bruised cherry entry dazzles. Spry floral-hopped briskness enhances luscious melon sweetness and mildly tart grape-quince sequel solidifying toasted wheat bed. Instantly approachable for lighter thirsts, yet bold enough for strong ale heads.
TRUE NORTH BLONDE LAGER
Moderate pale golden dry body imparts flashy hop-spiced citric-quince tang to crystal malted alacrity and nut bread toasting, finishing thin.
(TUNNER’S) PIEDMONT PORTER
Dryly bitter porter with coffee-burnt dark chocolate creaminess retains semi-rich mocha malt finish. Neither as bold nor as filling as most porters, leaving only trace of roasted cocoa at washed-out toasted grain finish.
(TWO BROTHERS) BONFIRE DUNKLE WEISS
Phenol murky brown dark wheat ale comes up short in limited ’08 release. For starters, dry-bodied banana souring needs to be pushed forward. Next, its lack of spicy clove-coriander sweetness, dearth of pineapple-orange fruiting, and off-putting smoked peat malting mire cocoa-tinged raisin-prune-fig tartness. Finally, moldy earthen usurpation ruins bland yellow-fruited finish. Busily muddled 2012 version chucked sweet and sour banana tartness in all directions, expanding stylish boundaries as unexpected beechwood smoking cluttered vinous red grape coarseness, musty grape-stemmed Muscat wining and yellow raisin snip.
UERIGE STICKE ALTBIER
Buttery caramelized malt serenade, spiced hop overture, and cracked wheat endurance receive chocolate-toffee confluence contrasting cherry-soured green apple dalliance. At off-dry finish, tea-like sentiment gets crowded by whiskey tonicity.
(UNIBROUE) EPHEMERE ALE – CASSIS
Beautifully mellow pinkish white-headed golden dry body nicely constricts black currant bitterness succinctly soaked up by cranberry apple tartness, unripe peach serenity, and citric rosebud tinge. Honey wheat backdrop flawlessly underscores oncoming bittersweet blueberry finish further soured by ester-y champagne tingle.
UNIBROUE TROIS PISTOLES ALE
Mellow billowy-headed sienna-hued strong ale with uniformly fading circular bubbles retains bittersweet raisin-plum-fig tenacity, dried apricot-cherry penchant, and tannic red-purple grape tartness. Dry grape-skinned Muscat-wined burgundy-port illusions pop up above capacious apple-spiced wheat spine. Ginger and orange peel make veiled cameos augmenting plumed yeast intricacy. With its puissant 9.9% alcohol content, why take Nyquil?
URPIN LAGER
Adequate ivory-headed clear-bodied lager layers chaffed wheat and freshly harvested hops above slick honeyed malts to dry rye finish that gets soggy.
VAPEUR COCHONNE AMBER ALE
Seriously heady sunset-hued barleywine-spiced ale awakens senses with moldy tangerine nose, gin-soaked juniper embrace, and silken Chardonnay-Cognac-Courvoisier subsidy. Alcohol-soaked syrupy malt setting invites fig-prune affluence to saturate rum raisin contour, overripe banana illusion, vanilla offing, and creamy caramel catapult. Medicinal finish picks up dense sour apple and bruised peach nip.
VICTORY GOLDEN MONKEY TRIPEL
Creamy Belgian-styled tripel mixes honeyed barleymalt affectation with compost-wafted white-peppered white-wined white ale character. Candi-sugared fig-dried rye wheat backdrop and pecan-almond snip deepened by herbal fungi. Moderate hop bitterness tucks away clove-ginger-nutmeg undertones and teensy coriander-anise adjunct before potent curacao orange finish gets serious alcohol jolt.