Underdeveloped lemony grapefruit-orange rind bittering picks up herbal perfumed hop oiling over tepid caramel-toasted English pale malt profile. Lightly salted pretzel nuance and phenolic floral spicing backend murky piney citic finish. Needs to be fruitier.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, elusive Anglo-American IPA (a.k.a. Horn of the Devil) brings musky dry-hopped mulled wine pungency to wayward lemon-curried grapefruit-orange rind bittering. Molasses-breaded honey tea sweetness fades in the background. In the bottle, Canadian-bred semi-hybrid combines English IPA-like dewy peat sweetness and earthen truffle shuffle with dried-fruited brown chocolate spicing of a weizenbock and toasted caramel malting of a red ale, leaving any citric-pined IPA flavoring in the dust.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, complex Belgian strong ale hybridizes mocha stout sweetness with Christmastime fruit caking. Ashen brown chocolate spicing and dark toffee sugaring drape smooth cask-like dry Scotch subtlety. Lemon-dried plum-fig-date conflux overrides latent red-wined cherry peppering, wintry gingerbread snip and relegated plastique nuance.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, gritty winter warmer departs from expectant sweet Christmas spicing for muddled IPA fruited sharpness. Bitterest orange-peeled grapefruit juicing and pine-sapped juniper hop resin contrast less prominent mango-papaya-nectarine-peach-tangerine tang to light honey-malted white breaded spine. Slight ethanol burn disturbs herbal snip. In the bottle, nebulous Chinook-hopped seasonal retains less bitterness as tart grapefruit-orange melange gets sweetened by honeyed biscuit malts and scurried sugared spices.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, vague English dark mild ale’s initial smoky chocolate nuttiness quashed by musty dried-fruited murk, wood-polished turpentine fuming and wet-papered gypsum sulfate. Prune-stewed sugared fig, purple grape and date dot crystal malt restraint. Quite abstruse.
Mundane reddish-hued ginger ale-like soda pop with candied watermelon, strawberry and cherry flavors gets increasingly cloy above sticky corn-sugared malting. Slick hop astringency ruins wine cooler aspirations.
