Elaborate kiln-fired cherrywood and beechwood smokiness inundates outstanding grain-charred bock lager. Damp wood-burnt campfire aromatics surround brown-sugared chocolate malt roast, cured meat glaze and lemon Seltzer twist. Maple-sapped barbecued bacon sweetness and cedar-singed peat mossing deepen heavily smoked mocha finish. One of America’s best rauchbiers.
Strong Belgian-styled wheat ale (brewed in collaboration with De Struise) offers musty Muscat grape aromatics to banana nut-breaded sweetness and advertised floral spicing. Black-peppered rose, violet and jasmine niceties regal dried grape-skinned plum-fig-date backend.
Likable potato-starched Berliner wheat ale will please sour ale lovers. Scarce potato influence creates lactic alkaloid acidity for soured lemon juicing, vinous green grape tartness and salty lime pucker. Dry straw grass leathering brings further acridity to ancillary Granny Smith apple, gooseberry and oaken cherry illusions.
Soft-toned Belgian pilsner brings lemon-salted Saaz hop prickle to sweet orange peel zest, satisfying lighter thirsts with lower expectations. Delicately crisp mineral water soothe proves relaxingly invigorating. But clay-hopped herbal respite and sweet corn alacrity cannot fill the gaping hole minimizing the fragile citric finish.
Inessential English pale ale mushes spicy red apple, peach and grapefruit murk with phenol hop-oiled musk, becoming diacetyl at the citric-soured herbal cider finish. Soft mineral watering depleted by acetone metallic sheen.
Voluptuous dessert wine-like Belgian dark ale (aged in Madeira barrels) brings contagious tropical-fruited Sangria sweetness to lively spiced rum sugaring. Complexities abound as gelatinous grape jelly viscousness spreads across ripe cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, pineapple, strawberry, cherry, raspberry and peach illusions. Syrupy fruit compote thickens alongside sticky caramel apple uprising. Simply undeniable.
Sessionable organic IPA brings soft hop-spiced floral bittering to mildly perfumed fruit tang. Delicate pine resin drapes juicy peach, pear, brown apple and pineapple illusions. Plastique clay hops add rubbery feel to dry wood ambush.
Sharp piney fruited hop pungency invigorates bitter ‘hop-head’ delight. Bright Citra-hopped grapefruit rind and orange pith bittering soaks up ultra-dry Amarillo-hopped wood tones. Sugary caramel malting, tangy tangerine-peach-melon juicing and sappy spruce resin provide generous contrast above wispy white wheat bed.
On tap at Three Wise Monks, limited edition tropical-fruited summer saison brings subtle pineapple juicing to sour yellow fruited splendor. Lemony grapefruit, pear, mango, apricot and grape tang picks up delicate Belgian yeast peppering, mild salty spicing and soft herbal touch. Pez-like tartness spreads across fruity finish.
Easygoing floral-bound fruited moderation gets thin and metallic after promising entry. Soft-toned caramel apple, brown pear, tangerine and lemon meringue illusions flutter by gentle sugar spicing and delicate hop-fizzed astringency. Vacuous phenol carbolics dissolve biscuit-y wheat backbone.
Fabulous fruit-juiced medium body with lingering pink and yellow grapefruit tang securing lemon-sugared crystal malts and mellow citric hop bittering. Light wood pining soaks up ancillary peach, cantaloupe, mango, tangerine, guava and passion fruit illusions. Definitive grapefruit theme sharpens by the sturdily zesty citric finish.
Mellow oak-aged hop-head delight loads tangy pink grapefruit briskness and brisk tropical fruited aromatics atop sharp piney bittering. Spruce-tipped pineapple, peach, tangerine and orange marmalade sweetness lingers, picking up mild maple-sugared vanilla undertones along the way. Minor gooseberry, mulberry and black currant bittering reinforces fruited hop bite.
