Easy drinking, hazy-browned, aridly dry IPA connects subtle passionfruit-laden Nelson Sauvin hops to tidy Cascade-hopped orange, grapefruit and pineapple bittering above light pale crystal malting. Resinous pine snip, mossy leaf lick and watery celery quip backup citric-spiced perfuming. Serve to English-styled IPA buffs as mildly updated crossover (instead of typical West Coast styling).
Utilizing lager yeast and melanodin Munich malting to defiantly create nut brown ‘ale’ offshoot, crisply clean moderation placates walnut-charred hazelnut, pecan and chestnut roast with scorched earth respite. Subtle black-breaded chocolate truffle, toffee, molasses and rye illusions relegated to back end.
On tap at Abominable Snowfest (aged two years in French oak barrels), heavily acidic sour ale ain’t for the faint of heart but will delight all brettanomyces punks. Oaken cherry tartness heightens vinous yellow grape tannins, sharp lemon-juiced Italian vinaigrette pungency and sour red raspberry pucker over leathery horse-blanketed acridity.
Casual sour ale crossover offers spontaneous brettanomyces-cultured saison yeast affectations to yellow-fruited floral spicing. White-peppered lemon and pineapple-candied tartness contrasts less effective cardamom-coriander spicing over mineral water cleansing.
Silken fresh-squeezed lemon souring and vinous green grape tannins embed lactobacillus leathering of soft-toned, saison-likened grisette (a.k.a. Table Sour). Farmhouse-funked spelt graining infiltrates latent grape vinaigrette pucker as well as lesser mandarin orange, white peach and tangerine illusions. An approachable sour ale made to suit a wide range of beer hounds.
Sessionable Belgian-styled pale ale lets “aggressive Amarillo-Saaz hops” provide earthen yellow wood bittering and tart lemon-limed resilience to gently spiced crystal malt backbone.
On tap at Ambulance, monastic Abbey yeast profile provides brown-sugared dark fruiting of Belgian strong ale for dark-roasted mocha malting of chocolate-enriched stout. A luxurious dry-bodied hybrid, its molasses-embittered Baker’s chocolate chalking and mild cocoa powdering override any prune, plum or fig nuances.
On tap at Abominable Snowfest, smoked black malts, dark chocolate syruping and bitter cocoa powdering pick up dark nuttiness (and a hint of licorice).
On tap at Abominable Snowfest, smoky walnut-shelled mocha malting receives dry Centennial hop oiling to contrast light maple caramel saucing. Slick plastique scamper covers bitter nut-charred continuance and dark-roasted black chocolate bottom.
Marking its one year anniversary, leisurely limited edition 2016 amber ale takes easygoing approach as subtly phenol-hopped grapefruit, pineapple, orange and passionfruit tang rises above caramelized crystal malting as brown-sugared raisin nuance fades away with nary a trace.
Dry-hopped jet black Cascadian Dark Ale’s cask-like soft tone lightens dark chocolate influence as well as dried-fruited raisin, fig and date nuances and latent black currant snip.
Well-detailed full body from 2016 small-batched Reserve Series brings bold dark-grained black chocolate richness to dry hop-charred coffee roast and bitter walnut sear while sustaining clean mineral water briskness. In recess, oats-dried molasses and mild vanilla beaning deepen black-malted mocha goodness while hints of dark rum, burgundy and black cherry waver. On tap at Biggie’s, 2018 tapped version retained creamily bittersweet dark chocolate roast heightened by sugared coffee, raw molasses, gooey anise and earthen hops.