Smooth nitro-like flow suits mild dark chocolate and coffee tones usually reserved for dry stouts. Dry nuttiness leans toward the bitter side, but molasses-sugared pumpernickel breading provides reluctant sweetness and dried-fruited citrus snip wavers faraway.
RABBIT HOLE 561 KOLSCH
Blandly pleasant pilsner-malted dry body (dedicated to Dallas Stars hockey legend, Mike Modano) lets sour lemon rot seep into dank Perle/ Tettnang hop musk, raw maize-oats parch and murky floral citrus sweetness without much pizzazz.
FOUR CORNERS HEART O’ TEXAS RED ALE
On tap at Brass Tap, mainstream moderate body brings blanched amber grain malt toasting to murkily spiced red-orange fruiting and coarse hop pining. Dewy peat earthiness and tea-like musk recede below.
RAHR & SONS PALETA DE MANGO
On tap at Brass Tap, spritzy chili-peppered mango adjunct lavishes lemon-limed spicing and subtle pale malting. Juicy mango succulence tails off a tad, as does the peppery heat.
WILD ACRE BILLY JENKINS SESSION BOCK
On tap at Flying Saucer – Garland, understated bock competes favorably against fellow Texas rival, Shiner Bock, but lacks sufficient toasted malt profile in murky soft-tongued mix. Dank dewy nature provides overcast outlook for diminished brown-sugared toffee spicing, soapy raw-honeyed musk and wispy fig-dried tartness. Ill-defined.
PETICOLA’S MATCH DAY
On tap at Meddlesome Moth, juicy lemon and orange peel tang sparks sessionable pale ale. Light resinous pine bittering, musky mineral graining and tropical pineapple-mango-guava snips seep below sunny citric surface.
PANTHER ISLAND ALLERGEEZ
Easygoing unfiltered wheat ale brewed with honey, chamomile flowers and rose hips gains perfume-spiced citrus zestiness. Fine eclectic liquid cure for allergies.
TUPPS AMERICAN WHEAT WITH HONEY
On tap at Taverna Rossa, middling wheat ale drips sweet and sour honey adjunct over delicate grassy-hopped yellow fruiting and cream ale-like corn grits(?). Mild brown tea-like musk and raw-grained malt dryness relegated.
ARMADILLO BRUNCH MONEY
On tap at Taverna Rossa, respectable stout-inspired golden ale succulently combines creamed coffee capaciousness with sweet maple-sugared vanilla and bittersweet black chocolate malting for rich pancake-battered brunch time dessert. Ancillary toasted coconut illusions waver.
ARMADILLO HONEY PLEASE
On tap at Taverna Rossa, easygoing pale body utilizes bittersweet wildflower honey, subtle cinnamon-sugared mesquite beans and mild hop bitterness to engage lagered yeast. Blood orange tartness and oaken vanilla smidge backup.
SAINT ARNOLD 5 O’CLOCK PILSNER
On tap at Flying Saucer – Garland, sessionable Saaz-hopped Czech-styled pilsner brings musty maize-dried earthiness, muskily perfumed floral dankness and grassy lupulin oiling to doughy biscuit base, leaving zesty lemon spritz dancing on the tongue.
903 CERVEZA POR FAVOR
Crisply clean Mexican-styled light lager utilizes maize-flaked lager yeast and dry cereal graining to provide easygoing South of the Border haven. Mildly hop-embittered lemon lime spritz provides carbolic fizzing.