Unique caramelized wheat wine aged in Larceny Wheated bourbon barrels while conditioned on brown-sugared cinnamon and apple picks up mild toffee sweetness. Subtle bourbon warmth receives apple pie, candied apple, gingerbread and tart cherry snips while downplaying 14.6% ABV heft.
Daring bourbon barrel-aged Belgian golden ale almost fully integrates cold-brewed coffee nuttiness into tripel-like honey-spiced dried fruiting for offbeat hybrid. Milk-sugared java continuance gains caramelized dark rum sweetness, almond-pecan whims, chocolate eclair nips and bourbon vanilla snips, losing some flare by the finish.
On tap at Beef Trust, fruit-caked Belgian dark candi sugaring merges caramelized plum-date-raisin splurge with understated cotton-candied banana sweetness above toffee-spiced pilsner malting in splendidly crystalline, stylishly forthright manner.
Sugary vanilla milkshake creaming sits atop yogurt-soured ambrosia fruiting and heavily wheated caramelized oats base of delightful lactose-spiked NEIPA. Sweet orange-peeled vanilla onrush gains lemony green grape tartness, mild grapefruit bittering and delicate peach-mango tang.
On tap at Taphouse 15, milk-sugared vanilla creaming fades slowly alongside doughy pastry-like sweetness scaling back the juicy mango tang. Sharply spiced orange-grapefruit-peach zesting stays brisk though lacquered pine oiling slightly undermines mango vanilla smoothie.
Briskly lemon-limed El Dorado hop bittering pervades peachy grapefruit and mandarin orange flash as well as cucumber watered watermelon rind pickling. Sour grape esters and mild herbal snips stay recessive.
Briskly fruited Cryo Cascade-hopped juiciness wades in ethanol vodka-like whirlpool (boozy 10% ABV) as moderate resinous pine bittering absorbs floral-spiced grapefruit rind, dried orange, pineapple, peach and mango flourishes. But pasty pale malt backing ransacked by slight cardboard edge.
Well integrated milk-sugared coffee, cocoa nibs and vanilla adjuncts rise above citric-spiced hop astringency. Mocha vanilla luster gains marshmallow, cream soda, white chocolate, creme de cocoa, Belgian-dipped cappuccino and hazelnut iced coffee sweetness.
Limey guava-strawberry adjuncts bring highly acidic sour-candied pucker to bittersweet concentrated orange juice pulpiness that pummels away at the tart frontage. Profoundly thick Berliner Weiss leaves salty residue on pink guava and strawberry combo as well as juicy orange intensity and tangy mango tease.
‘Heavily fruited sour ale’ (with murkily milked purplish hue) stays sharp as tart blueberry-banana adjuncts and limey orange juice acidity gain milk-sugared vanilla sweetener. Salted pineapple-licked oaken cherry tartness, fig-dried prune slumber and setback pink grapefruit zesting deepen kettle-soured blueberry and banana frontage.
On tap at Taphouse 15, salted raspberry souring purged by moderate lemon acidity and vinous red wine tinge for pallid flagship. Musty saccharomyces yeast fungi absorbs raspberry frontage as faded strawberry rhubarb, oaken cherry, cranberry and gooseberry tartness creeps in.
Classic off-dry flagship retains clean pale malt-spiced orange tang , grassy hop astringency and resinous herbal whim. Wispy peach, mango and tangerine illusions add further brisk zesting to perfectly centrist, yet stylishly bold, West Coast pale ale.
