Stylishly robust yellow-cleared light lager brings German pilsner-like musty mineral graining, sour dough flouring and grassy hop neutrality to soured lemon pit musk. Despite extremely pale complexion, simple flavor profile deepens over time. Baked bread, buttered biscuit and honeyed wheat undertones stay delicate beneath the toasted grain surface.
Bustling bourbon-barreled autumn ale loads lacquered pumpkin flesh atop generous ginger-spiced citrus spritz and distant vanilla-creamed cocoa nibs. But wavering bourbon sweetness never gains full effectiveness. Butternut squash, cucumber and zucchini illusions provide minor earthiness to contrast distant cinnamon-nutmeg wisps.
Easygoing vintage 2014 oak-aged sour ale tosses wild bacteria-cultured yeast at white-wined balsamic vinegaring and mild lemon-dropped orange peel bittering, picking up tart blueberry, pomegranate and raspberry rasp by leathery oaken cherry-vanilla midst. Lactic acidulated malts reinforce sour fruiting at the bone-dry finish.
Well-integrated oak-aged stout complements dark-roasted mocha malt expectancy with tannic Bordeaux-wined Malbec grape juice and latent raisin-plum-prune swoon. Creamy brown chocolate sweetness overrides descending dried fruiting at cocoa-powdered finish. Hints of chewing tobacco, charred wood and anise add depth to fine purple grape-draped chocolate fondue alternative.
Washed-out and stylistically anonymous doppelbock needs richer flavor profile and better definition. Instead, compromised smoked chocolate malting and flaccid caramel-tobacco roast play possum as dry-hopped astringency wavers. Black licorice hint seems out of place.
Decent dry-bodied “red amber ale” brings kiln-smoked caramel-chocolate roast and crystal-malted millet graining to light hop toasting, recalling an English-styled bitter at the back end due to its earthen dewy peat respite. Resinous wood tones scamper below.
Bland blonde pilsner serves musky grains to clean rice adjunct and grassy hop waft. Lemony smidge recedes to cardboard-like oxidation. Cheap pale yellowed light body will barely satisfy Blue Collar thirsts.
Part of “Expressionist Collection,” unenticing blend (tart Flanders Red with sour saison) lacks distinct Belgian farmhouse styling. Mushy mix combines sweet orange-peeled coriander blur, lightly peppered citric hop spicing and murky lemon-candied tartness. Wayward mandarin orange, curacao orange and green apple undertones fail to capture attention.
Black-bottled straw-cleared lager considered a malt liquor due to its sneaky 6.9% alcohol astringency, slick pale malting and syrupy corn sugaring. Acrid lemony hop spritz and salty snip contrast murky caramel sweetness. Betters most malt liquors, for sure.
On tap at Track 84, well designed moderation brings herbal white peppering and dewy mossiness to mild grapefruit-yellowed orange rind bittering, picking up phenol Band-aid reminder over salty mineral-grained bottom.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, sessionable light-bodied farmhouse ale spreads rustic barnyard funk across herbal lemondrop-candied tartness, pilsner-malted mineral graining and light grassy hop bittering. Salted white peppercorn respite brings prickly nose tingle.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, aggressive mocha-rich full body layers dry black coffee bittering atop hop-charred oaken bourbon soothe and sugared oats spine with tremendous results. Majestic chocolate-fudged vanilla bean, espresso, hazelnut and molasses undertones reinforce jolly java theme of enviable bourbon-aged coffee porter that’s an absolute must. On tap at Beef Trust, 2020 version retained creamy milk-sugared coffee rampage and all pertaining references, gaining sweet rum influence.
