Dry compost-wafted whiskey malts muddle sour orange fruiting, losing grapefruit rind bittering to skimpy candi-sugared butternut scamper. Dusted coffee-mocha acridity and earthen peat nuance fall short.
MARIN SAN QUENTIN’S BREAKOUT STOUT
Versatile black-hued tan-headed lactose stout with whipped cream-topped chocolate malt palate, rich wood burnt maple creaminess, roasted nut insurgence, and vanilla-fig-cherry dalliance subtly softened by artisian water crispness. By mid-palate, flaked oats juxtapose prudent coffee bean sourness, enhancing lingering mocha finish significantly. Beautiful.
MARIN RASPBERRY TRAIL ALE
Sharp hop-fizzed ale flawed by over-carbonation and acidic nature. Pour slowly to avoid fluffy white head overload so as it settles the off-dry raspberry caress seeps forward better and pre-empts the waning grain-malt mesh. Mistakenly substitutes soft and sudsy for rich and creamy, retaining ample aromatic raspberry tartness.
MARIN OLD DIPSEA BARLEYWINE
Heavy whiskey malt swagger intensifies candied butterscotch, caramel, and chocolate charm. In the deep recesses, sugared raisin, apple resin, and tangy pineapple offer solid support.
MARIN MT. TAM PALE ALE
Wonderful aromatic malt sweetness, dry pumpernickel-rye breading, and juicy pink grapefruit tang drape organic mineral-grained infusion. Prickly Cascade hop fizz gains assertiveness. Nothing complicated or fancy, just a subtly rewarding medium body.
(MARGARITA) LAND SHARK LAGER
Kitsch-y singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett supposedly owns this Sunshine State brewery. Thin pale-bodied Caribbean-styled lightweight merges salty oceanic whim with lemony hop pep. But cloying malts and arid grains allow phenol seltzer blandness to infiltrate corn oiled base. Worse than Corona.
MAREDSOUS BLONDE
MAREDSOUS TRIPLE ALE (10 DEGREES)
Opulent candi-sugared fig entry receives caramel-creamed vanilla resonance, peppery banana-clove recession and orange-soured pineapple tang. Molded bread lurk, wet grass murk and cork-y acridity pick up dried peach-apricot fruiting at musky midst, turning a tad phenolic by citric-tart Chardonnay finish. A re-fermented, alcohol-fueled, ultra-smooth medium body.
MAREDSOUS DOBBEL BOCK ALE
Rich auburn-bodied beige-headed top-fermented abbey ale with combustible 8% alcohol rate and sinewy leaven yeast sediment. Barleywine subtleties waver above dirty grain base and silken hop spicing. Fully formed, yet difficult to clearly define as a double bock, therefore recommended to dark ale connoisseurs.
MAREDSOUS ABBEY ALE (8 DEGREES)
Sharply alcoholic abbey ale complements scarce cherry-raisin palate with sweet floral yeast nose, dulled-out peppery hop anchor, cuddly cinnamon-spiced tease and dry-smoked barleymalt backbone for merely average sedation.
MANAYUNK TOTALLY TUBULAR DUDE DOUBLE I.P.A.
Estimable bottled version allows sweet spruce stickiness to pervade tangy apple-pear-blueberry prominence, reaching lustful cherry coughdrop finish. Lemony grapefruit bittering waits in the wings as chewy caramel malt center reinforces snazzy Sangria-traipsed nectar rally.
MANAYUNK SCHUYLKILL PUNCH RASPBERRY LAGER
Losing none of its tart raspberry luster in bottled version, this medium-bodied amber-hued fruit beer picks up lemony cranberry sourness and wavered floral tinge above thin wheat base.