CLIMAX CHERRY SNOW PLOW WINTER ALE

On tap at The Office-Ridgewood, genre-defying English winter warmer provides luscious sour cherry, medicinal cherry, bruised cherry and whiskeyed cherry tartness to wispy Blackstrap molasses sinew. Sherry, raspberry and orange undertones hide below the surface and the sugary cherry soda-like finish betters Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat. Connoisseurs may find take aim at its fizzy soda pop feel and indefinite stylistic candor, but it’s truly splendid. A perfect dessert treat, especially for fruity ale drinkers.

  

ALPINE DUET

Undeniably awesome West Coast India Pale Ale breaks out the tangy citric-hopped fruitiness, elegant floral-spiced splendor and pungently resinous pine freshness to impress any true beer lover. Sweet navel orange, bitter yellow grapefruit and sour pineapple cut loose initially, followed succinctly by harmonious Valencia orange, clementine, peach, cantaloupe, nectar, tangerine, mango, pear and red apple juicing. A flavorful Simcoe-Amarillo hop adventure sure to please everyone (except lightweights thrown off by its minor aspirin-like astringency).   

Alpine Duet

FLYING FISH EXIT 3 BLUEBERRY BRAGGOT HONEY ALE

Indelible honey-fermented fruit ale (with well-disguised 15% ABV) from an ancient recipe brings sweet ‘n sour blueberry tartness to zesty orange-lemon peel briskness, light Belgian pilsner malting, phenol champagne yeast and subtle white peppering. Sinewy demerara sugaring tips honeyed coughdrop midst increasing mead-wined blueberry persistence, picking up sweet vanilla illusions ’til the liqueur-like sloe gin fizz whir creates a spellbinding buzz for this glorious blueberry dessert.