Put through an espresso-loaded Randall filter system at Boston Beer Summit ’15, sweet bourbon-soaked espresso lilt picks up dark-roasted coffee bean resilience and delicate black chocolate cadence. Recessive black cherry, port and sherry tones fade beneath the persistent java scurry.
Smooth moderation lacks specific Belgian styling, instead relying on lemon rind bittering, sour orange rot and bruised peach innuendo. Musty mineral graining contrasts sweet floral accents and mild candi-sugared malt creaming, but white-peppered Indian coriander adjunct never suffices.
Sessionable India Pale Ale drapes citric Mosaic hops atop dewy light-grained pilsner malts and faded caramel nuttiness. Grapefruit, pineapple, lemon, orange and mango illusions bring sunny brightness.
Replicating English-styled bitter to a ‘tea,’ dewy medium body brings earthen peat minerality to orange marmalade, brown apple, yellow grapefruit and peach tones. Light English crystal malting sweetens the brown tea spree.
Affable English-style bitter brings stylish black tea pungency and raw-honeyed peat mossing to grape-leafed citric swirl. Light caramel malting and sweet-breaded sourdough sinew provides sugary backdrop for Ipswich-bottled moderation.
Sessionable summer ale brings light pilsner malting and grassy Saaz hop herbage to clean-watered citric subtlety. Dainty grape-leafed Barlett pear influence stays distant.
Not far removed from brewers’ summer ale with its brisk fresh-watered pilsner malting and carbolic citrus spritz. Subtle honey influence and light floral snips backup sunny citric sedation to its white wheat spine.
On tap at Ambulance, pungently embittered straw-cleared Czech-styled pilsner brings dry Noble hop herbage to balmy grapefruit-orange-lemon sequence above soft oats-flaked pilsner malt base. Alkaline-like alcohol acidity intensifies musty raw-grained pungency. Light pilsner fans may be put-off by ruggedly coarse scour.
Black patent malting, bittersweet dark chocolate and dry cocoa combine for average medium-bodied dark ale.
Flagship dark ale comes across like a nutty stout with its dark-roasted mocha malting and subtle hop char. Brown chocolate sweetness overlays cocoa-dried hazelnut, walnut and pecan niceties. Minor coffee, vanilla and black cherry illusions provide backup while hefty 9.5% ABV gets camouflaged.
Hallucinogenic design for Imperial IPA bottle represents fruitful elixir well. Stimulating spice-hopped grapefruit, peach, pineapple, mango and peach tang given brisk piney orange peel bittering as dusty floral waft fills the air. Tidy citric finish gets phenolic.
Sessionable English-styled India Pale Ale brings mildly pungent dewy earthiness, light resinous hop bittering and ESB-like rye malting to brisk lemony grapefruit juicing.
