Sessionable canned IPA provides ‘peach, mango and passionfruit’ tropicalia to creamy sugared malts contrasting lemon-seeded piney hop bittering. Centrist grapefruit, pineapple, orange and peach tang picks up floral nuances. Making fine use of Pacific-styled Centennial, Citra and Amarillo hops, Cincy-bound medium body hits the mark despite minor metallic tinning.
Summery straw-yellowed moderation (in a can) offers sugary lemon-grapefruit-orange-pineapple tang to delicate grassy hop spicing, pale-malted white bread spine and mineral watered crisping. Predictable, but efficient.
Unresiliently updated ‘vanilla espresso-infused’ 2015 version utilizes creamy Ugandan vanilla bean sugaring and less engaging Peruvian espresso influence but fails to fully charm. Bitter cocoa cacophony, slick coffee ground compromise and oaken hop char distract (instead of contrast) sweet side, leaving tertiary hazelnut brownie, sappy molasses, black cherry and blackberry illusions in the dust. By the finish, most of its vanilla espresso luster has faded and become a tad phenolic.
“Decadent” chocolate porter offers pronounced cocoa nibs adjunct to dark-roasted mocha malting, nutty coffee ascendance and moderate hop char. Bittersweet black chocolate influence deepens dark cocoa insistence. Sinewy molasses sapping seeps into distant raspberry and black cherry rasp.
Exemplary bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout retains fudgy milk chocolate goodness and dark-roasted hop char for oaken vanilla sweetness. Black coffee, cappuccino, burnt caramel, cocoa powder, anise and coconut illusions reinforce prosperous mocha theme. Wispy black cherry, fig and blackberry undertones fill out sugared molasses backend.
Penetrative dark-roasted barley malting and toasted hop crisping elevate cocoa-dried black chocolate affluence that contrasts fresh-brewed coffee bittering. Mild nut-charred rye breading works its way into molasses-sugared mocha finish.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, sashaying smoked saison loses initial peat-smoked campfire insistence to moderate citrus tartness and mildly dry earthen leathering. Creamy wheat syruping contrasts dewy earthen rusticity as sweet orange-peeled grapefruit zest lingers behind. A wayward hybrid bereft of advertised smokiness by arid citrus-induced finish. In the bottle, peculiar ‘amber ale’ with peat-smoked barley and dewy wheat syruping gains Band-aid-like astringency. Buttery phenol residue invades murky orange-candied tartness and dry whiskey nip.
Enjoyable Polish hefeweizen (a.k.a. Pszeniczniak) lets frisky carbolic luster create billowy creamed head above hazy yellow body. Stylish lemony banana-clove sweetness gives way partly to phenol hop astringency contrasting Graham Cracker-like honeyed wheat base.
Simple amber lager retains moderate body as light sourdough yeast creates Easter-breaded baguette sweetness. Sugary crystal-caramel malts contrasting mild hop astringency remain subdued to wispy Portugeuse sweet bread finish.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, enticing hibiscus-honeyed tripel stays soft on the tongue as sweet fruited malts gain resilience above delicate floral hops. Red apple juicing spreads across red cherry tang, raspberry tartness, tropical passionfruit-mango-guava conflux and spritzy citric nuances while bustling 10% ABV remains hidden. Perfectly centered hibiscus adjunct allows subtle rose petal, lilac and jasmine undertones to tweak fabulous fruitful finish.
On tap at Track 84, juicy orange and red fruiting inundates dry-spiced caramel malting and honeyed wheat spine. Floral-daubed navel orange, clementine, tangerine, peach and apple illusions rise above mild resinous hop pungency.
On tap at Track 84, wonderful Imperial India Pale Ale’s brisk ruby red grapefruit tang and lemony orange-peeled bittering ascend above fresh hop-spiced evergreen pining. Tertiary peach, tangerine and navel orange illusions secure bitter citric intrigue.