Polite citrus aromatics and bitter orange peel tartness top relaxing grain flow up-front. Carbolic fizz sits on the tongue as luscious crescent watering softens wispy hops. Closer to a summer ale with its spry citrus elegance.
MIDDLE AGES GRAIL ALE
Out of the Middle Ages comes this very fine ruby red ale. Perfect blend of mild chocolate nuttiness, sharp mineral graining, and bitter hop dryness provide firm foundation. Light coffee singe speckles supplemental fruit-spicing for added resilience.
MIDDLE AGES 11TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE WHEAT
Coming across like a moderate dry-bodied raw-grained harvest ale, its piney-hopped grapefruit rind and lemon peel bittering override engaging rye-wheat slip and tingly mango-peach-apricot nicety. Seductive pale malt reflux disguises reductive floral stint and white pepper spicing.
MIDDLE AGES DRUID FLUID BARLEYWINE STYLE ALE
Determined, yet diffident, copper-reddish barleywine caresses Scotch malt dryness with butterscotch yeast sweetness, floral accents, and pine-spruce density. Grapefruit, plum, maraschino cherry, and moldy orange illusions ripen chocolate liqueur finish. Highly complex, yet light on the tongue.
MIDDLE AGES DRAGONSLAYER IMPERIAL STOUT
Impressively cresting coffee bean theme and taut burnt mocha bitterness thicken creamy brown-bodied tan-headed lactose stout. Black chocolate insistence perfectly underscores dry oat expansion and peppery hop zip, settling to everlasting tar-like java finish.
MIDDLE AGES DOUBLE WENCH PALE ALE
Pronounced piney spruce auspices serve doubly-hopped IPA-styled strong ale well. Souring grapefruit rind ascension jacks up ripe peach-pear-apple-papaya tang, augmenting fresh evergreen grove to cracked wheat spine. Despite piercingly bitter citric bite, cordial medium body flows down gullet ever so smoothly.
MIDDLE AGES BRITISH STYLE ALE
Sweet Scotch aroma, musty orange timbre, and lusty alcohol fray persist, aiding raw honey bitterness countering strident corn-soaked malt finish of translucent straw-hued amber-etched pale ale.
MIDDLE AGES BEAST BITTER
With pulsing candied sweetness confronting crisp hop bitterness, the rustic Beast Bitter carves out its own distinctive niche. The dragon regalia is a gas. (So as long as we’re celebrating the Middle Ages, hand me a beer, wench!) Pale-hued foamy white-headed full body counters honeyed apricot motif with buttery malts, leafy earthiness, and unusual assortment of spicy adjuncts.
(MIDDLE AGES) APRICOT ALE
Perfumed apricot-peach tang bursts through polite floral accent, sweet melon nuance, and medicinal cough syrup continuance, but diminished fizz-hopped phenol finish goes sterile and blanched wheat bottom gets mired by diacetyl spell. Ripe cherry and stewed prune illusions revealed when warmed.
(MICHIGAN) NO DISPUT’N PUTIN IMPERIAL STOUT
Gleefully inspired by Russian leader, light-bodied stout maintains soft chocolate-nut overlay, dark-fruited bottom, and subsidiary roasted coffee sourness amending alcohol-smitten finish.
MICHIGAN MACKINAC PALE ALE
Protracted cereal-grained marzipan sweetness counters grassy-hopped lemony orange peel bittering and acidic alcohol astringency fronting rust-hazed medium body. Resinous floral spices then infiltrate buttery wheat biscuit spine, nestling latent apple-peach-pear tingle.
MICHIGAN HIGH SEAS INDIA PALE ALE
Bold viscous nickel-hued ruby-highlighted IPA wallops piney floral hop bittering with emergent grapefruit rind and green apple souring, subjugating resinous herbs to biscuit-y barley-wheat backbone. Elusive apricot-cherry hints recede to clean citron finish, scaling back sharp acidity.