Pleasant caramel malts, sanguine wood burnt grains, and lace-y foam linger within bittersweet orange-peeled pineapple, peach and grapefruit confines. Tender, softly calibrated, milder hopped change of pace away from thicker, richer, more complex rivals like Ipswich IPA. Serve to more attenuated pale ale and lager fans.
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CLOVIS SPECIAL ALE
Heavily carbolic white-headed amber-clouded Belgian (a.k.a. Bush 7%) with wafting citric-quince enhancing buttered honey sweetness and ethereal floral twinge. Savory dry-hopped finish features subtle coriander-clove spicing. Superfine.
COLUMBUS OHIO HONEY WHEAT
True blue collar dark amber blonde ale pits raw wheat-maize earthiness against astringent honey bittering and sour grape esters, getting casually usurped by dry grassy finish. Toasted hop coarseness thickens adequate session beer.
COOPERS SPARKLING ALE
Aromatic sugar malt whisk, gentle grain texture, and flat watery flow mired by ineffective citric hop thrust plus minor acidity. Creamy sweetness too unassuming to secure silky tenderness.
CORSENDONK MONK’S ABBEY BROWN ALE
Strong, efficient, frothy-headed, burgundy-hued brown ale with dried fruit theme, silken carbonation, and peppery hop bite creates early barleywine illusion. Black chocolate-raisin midst leads to delicately complex port-burgundy core that’s pure joy. Impressively contoured prune souring and sun-drenched fig sugaring fill out detailed finish.
CRICKET HILL HOPNOTIC INDIA PALE ALE
Perfumed orange rind waft overmatches musty orange-apricot musk, dank grapefruit-lemon sedation and astringent hop bitterness of indefinite yellow-glowed English-styled IPA. Floral accents emerge in cracked wheat setting as fresh-cut grass-hay-horsehide illusions and vacant vegetal nuances skitter by sour-fruited diacetyl finish.
DAB DORTMUNDER DARK LAGER
Traditional tea-colored eggshell-headed Dortmunder lager offers dry Scotch frontage to soft-grained wheat-toasted hop-roasted mildness, but tinny metallic finish and delusional nutty bittering lower potential. Best consumed from 1-gallon pony kegs, where delicate sweet and sour malting juxtaposes polite hop bitterness above watery texture for refined elegance.
(D’ECAUSSINNES) ULTRA AMBREE
Approachable dark strong ale furnishes soothing butterscotch resilience as white yeast particles amble through viscous brown body. Thick caramel malting enriches chocolate-vanilla resonance penetrating sugar cookie accessory, precarious raisin-prune-melon blip, and spicy clove-cardamom-nutmeg snip.
DE KONINCK (1833) TRIPEL
Despite hefty 8% alcohol flow, translucent amber blonde stays extremely watery from washed-out phenol cherry-apple frontage to dry Scotch midst then faint bitter hop finish. Mellow tobacco-leafed cracked wheat spine sweetens abrupt alcoholic astringency.
DERGY’S GOLDEN ALE
Rhapsodic medium-bodied golden delight picks up caramel essence and doughy sinew by tobacco-tinged barley-oats finish, curiously blending red ale-like malted grain sweetness with IPA hop spicing along the way. Brewed under Williamsville Brewing handle ‘Golden Lager’ thereafter. Brewery defunct: 2006.
DESCHUTES QUAIL SPRINGS INDIA PALE ALE
Faintly orange-scented cloudy rust-hued IPA coats sweet caramel malt center with floral hops and resinous minerals. Flighty toasted grain finish mellows lingering citric bitterness.
DINKELACKER CD-PILS
Acceptable clear-bodied pearl-headed pils with initial skunked grain malting settling above buttery wheat groove. Mild citric sweetness guards floral grapefruit bittering enveloping crisp grassy hop backdrop. So drink a Dink, as the old ad says.