Powder-sugared pumpkin spicing (cinnamon-nutmeg) plus muted cranberry-orange tartness stay subtle as fluttered brandy-cognac spiriting sways the dried fruited finish.
BLUE MOON LIGHT CITRUS WHEAT
Bright Valencia orange essence upholds 95-calorie Blue Moon spinoff. Tangy orange fronting gains sunny lemon licks above soft white wheat base. Mild phenol hop aridity kept under wraps.
ROUND TABLE ENCUENTRO
On tap at The Local Taphouse of Nyack, unspecific soft-toned Argentinian lager with palest clear yellow hue hides peppery herbs, floral daubs and delicate spicing beneath Scotch-tinged barley base. Might better average Mexican lagers.
TALKING WATERS STONY RUN PALE ALE
Classic amber-hued pale ale with tepid flavor profile. Lightly spiced orange-apple-tangerine combo barely registers atop cardboardy caramel malts. Tamped down Cascade-Centennial hops lay barren.
TALKING WATERS MN NICE ADVENTURE LAGER
Fizzy, arid, sessionable dry lager with orange-spoiled lemon rot grazing parched maize, straw wheat and raw honey at its bland biscuit base.
SCHILLING SCHLAUMEIER BAVARIAN STYLE HEFEWEIZEN
Delicate straw clear hefe stays thin as spritzy lemon licks prickle sweet banana-clove seduction over soft sourdough wheat base, picking up mild herbage, green grape tannins and phenol hop blurb.
SCHILLING KVET 12
On tap at The Local Taphouse of Nyack. Stylishly richer ‘Czech amber lager’ tosses raw-honeyed cracked barley at lightly cherrywood-smoked pumpernickel, rye and wattleseed midst as leafy hop astringency penetrates dried cocoa bottom.
WIDOWMAKER HOW THE GODS CHILL AMBER LAGER
Dry clear golden light lager lets lemon lime musk and slight grapefruit pith bittering sidle dry Chinook-hopped herbage as skunky pale malting ruins fragile white bread base.
KILLS BORO KILLSNER
On tap at The Local Taphouse of Nyack, musky raw-grained pilsner malting and herbal Tettnang-Perle hops embed traditional German styled moderation. But addition of dry Hallertau Blanc hops provides mild tannic green grape esters at the musty barnyard finish.
KC BIER MUNICH STYLE BROWN LAGER
Boring bronze moderation with bread crusted pilsner malts providing dull bed for phenol Perle hop spicing, leafy autumnal earthiness, raw molasses dreck, undefined herbage and musty orange oiling.
KC BIER MUNICH STYLE GOLDEN LAGER
Smoothly cold conditioned helles lager suffuses brisk lemon musk with grassy herbage and raw-honeyed graining. Mild sweet bread base sops up hay-like barnyard acridity.
MICHAEL PLANK DUNKLER WEIZENBOCK
Lacking body, thin made-for-the-masses dark wheat bock lets delicate toffee-caramel sweetness pick up mild black peppered smokiness as distant cola nuttiness whimpers. Worst German brewer award.