Pure mountain spring water flows through dirty mineral grain essence to soapy finish that’s indistinguishable even for a light pale body. Conservative barleymalt saunter under-whelms.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU BLOND
Pour slowly highly carbonated white-headed blond. Resilient candied butterscotch banter and white-peppered hops lend laid-back elegance to doughy biscuit spine. Mild medicinal spell subdues citric-spiced finish, becomong a tad soapy along the way.
ABITA STRAWBERRY HARVEST LAGER
Parched straw-hazed moderate-bodied fruit-flavored lager brings powdered Pez-like sourness to muted cotton-candied strawberry shortcake tartness. Blanched cereal graining subsumed by astringent leathery acridity, diacetyl carbolic fizz, and watermelon gum illusion. Banana taffy, plantain, peach, and apricot lost in butterscotch midst.
AFANASY DARK LAGER
Spotty prune-fig confluence picks up considerate dark caramel- toffee-butterscotch continuance as slightly syrupy nature recedes to blank mocha grained finish.
ALASKAN WINTER ALE
Divergent tawny seasonal perks chewy caramel-butterscotch reliance with harvested spruce tips, mild chestnut-pine wood tones, and insurgent floral hops, abandoning predictable cinnamon-nutmeg wintering for heavily alcoholic dessert warmth. Complexities abound when syrupy flow turns bubble-gummy at thawed finish.
ALLAGASH HUGH MALONE ALE
Vigorously fruited, tan-laced, amber-hued, Belgian-styled India Pale Ale brings floral-teased citric spicing to lightly pine-hopped bittering. Easily consumed despite shrewd 8.5% alcohol content, its sugary grapefruit tang and peachy orange sweetness entangle lilting pomegranate trifle.
(ALVINNE) GASPAR ALE
Gaudy herbal hop resin too acridly phenol for alcohol-burnt orange peel bittering and lemony grapefruit rind souring entwining white peppered thyme-sage spicing of eccentric meringue-headed bronze-hazed India Pale Ale. Creamy vanilla-chocolate malting suffers pungent setback by dank basement mustiness and earthen barnyard funk, ravaging tertiary green apple tartness, dried peach tang, and vapid honeysuckle sweetness.
ANCHOR “OUR SPECIAL” 2007 ALE
Well-balanced cola-hued seasonal yields wintry cinnamon-nutmeg-gingerbread spicing above sweet sarsaparilla sufficiency and sugared fig-date-pecan illusions. Baker’s chocolate powdering and vanilla bean bittering coarsen residual dry-hopped vegetal earthiness.
ANDERSON VALLEY BELK’S E.S.B. ALE
Refreshingly spry bitter with mellowing barley recession to crisp mineral water finish. Off-dry hop bitterness underscores grain intimacy for mild pilsner elan that lager fans may find tempting.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH BAREKNUCKLE STOUT
Mediocre frothy tan-headed mahogany-bodied macro with surging cascading bubbles and Guinness-like nitro flow. Dry nutty overture and roasted hop support dissipate for burnt coffee spell, losing smooth creaminess by watery finish.
APPALACHIAN PENNYPACKER PORTER
Dry chocolate-scented water-thinned porter brings mild nuttiness and delicate vanilla touch to smoothed-out mocha-coffee frontage that’ll appease lighter thirsts. Tidy black chocolate finish hoists placid roasted grain spine.
ARCADIA INDIA PALE ALE
Durable bronze-hued, spruce-hopped, English-styled medium body splashes gleaming berry, melon, cantaloupe and tangerine fruiting across intimate floral bouquet, peppery spicing, and prim pop fizz. Black currant finish enforces coarse piney bitterness. On tap at Blue Ribbon Tavern (2015), latest version lacked fruitiness and picked up dryer, earthier Brit-styled Goldings hop graining and murkier pale malting over mild lemon-peeled bittering.