Miscast as an India Pale Ale, its honeyed cereal oats, toasted caramel malting and cookie dough richness befit a sweet helles lager instead of a hop-embittered IPA, regaling stylistic orange-peeled pineapple-grapefruit-tangerine tang and resinous pine oiling with more resonant peach-pear-apple supplement. Peppery hop-spiced influence stays moderate.
Likable light-bodied (3.5% ABV) sour wheat ale brings tart lemon limed pucker to the fore as gose-like coriander salting takes a backseat. Lightly acidic green apple mildness and vinous grape tannins provide soft pungency. At the finish, fresh-squeezed lemonade niche and plain yogurt milking reinforce lactic wort-soured citrus continuance.
Indelible amber-bronzed full body gains sweeter candied citrus fruiting and oilier piney hop bittering than usual IPA suspects. Furthermore, creamier honeyed malt bill, sinewy cookie dough-like yeast and whimsical Maraschino cherry sugaring provide richer textural flavoring. Zesty grapefruit, navel orange, pineapple, peach and apricot fruit punch outlasts unique whiskey-bent Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and cognac wining.
Not as rich and bold as Texas crude namesake. Dark-roasted chocolate malt creaming subsides over time and minor carbolic aridity interferes with ancillary coffee-burnt Blackstrap molasses, Baker’s chocolate and cocoa nibs subsidy as well as restrained pecan-walnut-hazelnut conflux.
Respectable copper-hazed medium-full body (with hidden 9.2% ABV) plies expectant citric bittering to sticky piney spruce resin. Tangy orange-peeled yellow grapefruit bite leads the way as ancillary tangerine, peach, pear and apple illusions scatter across zesty lemon tartness. Bitter bark-dried hop roast deepens as sugary caramel malting sweetens floral fruit-juiced finish.
Bettering most lighter bodied pale ales with its full flavored profile, murkily rust-hazed Texan (in a can) offers crystal-malted cereal grain toasting and moderate piney hop bittering to delicately sugar-spiced grapefruit, pineapple and orange tang as well as zesty lemon twist. Crisp well-watered minerality provides clean base for brisk floral-fruited finish. Recommended to softer ale palates.
Crisply clean dry-hopped moderation (in a can) takes brewers’ standard Fireman’s #4 Blonde Ale and increases its malted barley grain bill while heightening the piney hop bittering to boost gravity and intensify the frisky fruited frolic. Candied tangerine, pineapple, grapefruit and lemon tang lingers above soft-grained toasted bread spine.
A cornucopia of bittersweet tropical fruits gain affluence above advertised ‘caramelized apricot’ tartness serenading hybridized Belgian IPA. Ancillary lemon-dried mango, kiwi, papaya, grapefruit and peach tones contrast assertive hop-charred ethanol bittering. Herbaceous black-peppered Belgian yeast funk grazes acrid alfalfa, wheat straw and hay backdrop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
