Dandy li’l canned pale ale brings German alt yeast to soft-toned fruit spicing and mild grassy hops. Lemony grapefruit, tangerine and Bartlett pear illusions soak up dry piney niche. Cereal grain remnant found at sourdough bottom.
(TEXIAN) BRUTUS ENGLISH-STYLE IPA
Muddled rust-hazed English IPA with wavered ESB tendencies lacks firm direction. Canned dry body offers earthen dewiness, brown tea-like musk and reedy hop grouting to lemon-rotted prune-fig-date conflux. Minor West Coast-styled citric vibrancy lost in the carbolic fizz.
TEN NINETY IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
Engaging medium-full body dazzles senses with floral-wafted fruit juicing and caramel-sweetened barley roast. Nifty orange-bruised grapefruit, peach, pear and apple illusions contrast resinous piney hop oiling and peppery herbal nip. Tangy citric sparkle hides mighty 9.9% ABV of well-balanced potion.
TEN NINETY IMPERIAL WITBIER
Complexities abound for crystalline Belgian-styled Pale Ale. Advertised “honeyed spices” pick up herbal lemon souring, plum-wined prune respite and light champagne fizz over brisk clean-watered crisping. Softer palates will be delighted.
PIPEWORKS ZOMMELIER SMOKED WHEAT WINE
Walking a tightrope getting all the different adjuncts to adhere correctly makes this affluent wheat wine a durable recreational hybrid (with hidden 10% abv). “Brewed with spices,” its toasted black cardamom seasoning and black peppercorn snip provide a rice-wined sake affect before settling into oaken vanilla midst. Herbal Sauvignon tropicalia and creamy Chardonnay buttering tease the palate before honeyed nectar sweetens its dainty hibiscus-lotus-dandelion florality. Subtle smoked wheat tangent underscores dry alfalfa, whey and sorghum graining as well as grouty hop gunk.
PIPEWORKS COHEN’S STATE OF KIND WITBIER
Curiously unconventional hybridized witbier tosses mild hibiscus florality, tea-like chamomile herbage and honeyed wheat malting into strangely exotic mix that forsakes stylish orange-peeled coriander propensity for creative offshoot. Wafting floral nectar sweetness increases hibiscus-chamomile affect. Dirty earthen peat mossing shrivels up the subtle plum, prune and beet undertones. Advertised blueberry tartness needs sharper intensity.
PIPEWORKS POIVRE VERT SAISON
Uncommon saison puts a challenging spin on basic farmhouse ale. Best described as a liquified green salad intermingling delicate vegetable intricacies with pleasant citric effervescence, its refreshingly water-based cucumber cleanliness rises above celery-seeded green peppercorn remnants. A moderate Saaz hop bittering and sour lemon twist contrast the light green-peppered cucumber sweetness. Marvelous balance and complexity for such a unique offshoot.
FLESK FORCE OF NATURE BELGIAN-STYLE IPA
Imprecise and unconventional moderate-bodied Belgo-American hybrid needs more emphatic Belgian yeast funk, better caramel-spiced sweetness and more specific herbal fruiting. Closer to a helles lager with its wavered biscuit-y cracked graining, cereal oats sugaring and doughy croissant buttering.
FLESK KAI SUMMER ALE
Adequate blonde ale never fully integrates advertised ginger spicing with herbaceous white-peppered grapefruit bittering and floral hibiscus-lotus-lilac bouquet. Sessionable summertime fodder.
MIDDLE BROW LIFE PURSUIT DARK SAISON
Bordering on a lactic sour ale, this pliable farmhouse ale brings dry earthen musk to sour green and yellow grape tartness as well as advertised cinnamon-sticked vanilla bean subtlety. Vinous white-wined Pinot Gris follow-up picks up bubbly champagne fizz above peppery hop spicing.
3 SHEEPS WATERSLIDES INDIA PALE ALE
Rich bronze-hazed full body recalls Ipswich IPA with its chewy cookie dough yeast and sweet honeyed fruiting. Unlike most IPA’s, expectant orange-peeled grapefruit and pineapple bittering takes a temporary backseat to tangy red apple, peach and pear illusions. Piney hop sharpness never overrides sugary spruce contrast. Splendidly superior.
(POTOSI) GOOD OLD POTOSI BEER
Perfectly sessionable golden ale with polite lager-like cereal toasting, cracker-like pilsner malting and grassy hop mildness afforded clean-watered crisping. Lemon-limed carbolic fizz prickles the tongue. Delicate orange fruiting and wispy floral accents caress light mineral grain finish.