Soft-focus 25th anniversary celebrator (2014 strong ale blending Odells Golden with Boulevard Golden) brings honey-spiced caramel sugaring and sweet fruit tang to cottony hop astringency. Light-bodied, despite elevated 7.3%ABV, its delicate floral citric effervescence sits gently on the tongue. Piquant vanilla buttering stays mellow and timid fig-date snip stays distant.
Dainty farmhouse-styled ale brings subtle tangerine-clementine tang and sweet ‘n sour lemon juicing to delicate pale malt stead. Crisply clean carbolic spritz nearly hides estery grape tartness, kaffir lime tingle and mild melon snip at the zesty citric finish.
Moderate fruit spicing and soft hop astringency outdone by reedy lemongrass-basil-celantro herbage. At the mild citric-herbed finish, light lemon-dried navel orange peel bittering contrasts subtle coriander seasoning and distant caraway-seeded sweetness.
Crisply dry chartreuse-hazed Belgian pale ale retains sessionable herb-spiced fruiting. Soft orange-grapefruit-plantain timidity allows herbal black and white peppering to reign over salty-bottomed mineral graining.
Easygoing honey-grained caramel toasting and spicy yellow-orange fruiting given light hop prickle. Simple, yet effective.
Mediocre Euro-American pale ale connects cardboard-like malting and herbal Noble hops to earthen straw musk. Dank mineral graining gets watery. Unripe navel orange and grapefruit undertones pick up dewy vegetal astringency.
Inventive Scottish stout brings mildly creamed peat-smoked dark chocolate malting and chewy cocoa-powdered caramel malting to clean well-watered crisping, finishing with a mocha-sweetened cedar burn (not unlike a moderate rauchbier). Light vanilla, molasses, coffee, cola nut and root beer illusions coddle silken mocha theme.
Spent a snowy Friday in February sucking down suds with wife and friends (Tony and Cindy) at luxuriously detailed Wayne, New Jersey pub, TAPHOUSE GRILLE. Tender mussels and crisp nachos went well with tonight’s liquid fare, which included two fine Brooklyn brews, one Texas draught, one Michigan dark ale and one Massachusetts wee heavy.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, luscious Belgian quad spreads dark candi-sugar across dark-fruited spicing and delicate pilsner malting (hiding its heady 9.9% ABV). Rum-soaked raisin, sugar plum, date nut cake, black cherry and fig illusions sweetened by caramelized molasses sugaring. Light sherry wining and honeyed nuttiness add to the busy mix.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, fine hybridized witbier brings stylish orange-peeled coriander sweetness to saison-like lemondrop souring and hefeweizen-like banana-clove sugaring. Honeyed pale wheat malts provide soft bed for cotton-candied fruiting at elegant finish.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, noirish full-body layers dry black-malted dark chocolate resin above wood-smoked charcoal singe and relegated piney citric bittering. Nut-charred black coffee, dark cocoa, raw molasses and fudge tones secure heavy mocha theme. Solidly robust.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, crisply soft-tongued German pils-styled moderation allows delicate honeyed biscuit malting and spicy hop tingle to get watery by musky vegetal midst. Resigned cereal grain finish lacks luster.