On tap at Copper Mine, stellar 16th anniversary Blasphemy Quad receives extremely crystalline bourbon barrel aging. Oaken vanilla and mocha molasses saturate succulent bourbon sweetness. Black cherry, raisin and fig found in recess. Braggot-like mead wining allows purple and red grape esters to enter its soothing whiskey bent.
On tap at Copper Mine, dry medium-bodied West Coast-styled India Pale Ale brings zesty tropical fruiting to dessicated pine hop acridity, tart orange-peeled bittering and dark floral reminder. Biting juniper berry ascension contrasts juicy pineapple, tangerine, peach, grapefruit and lemon tang.
On tap at Copper Mine, smoothly decisive barrel-aged brown ale brings syrupy whiskey malting to hazelnut-doused vanilla-chocolate sweetness. Soy-sauced raisin pureeing finds ancillary space before mocha-bound bourbon whiskey finish sets in.
On tap at Copper Mine, dry-hopped black coffee overtones enrich oats-charred walnut bittering contrasting black chocolate-y hazelnut sweetness. Stove-burnt coffee souring and ashen peanut shelling dot mocha nuttiness.
On tap at Copper Mine, robust Belgian dark ale boasts strong sour ale overtones (but qualifies as a cherry ale due to its fruitier appropriation). Abundant sour cherry tartness reaches nirvana above rich mocha malting and coarse hop spicing. Cherry cordial, black cherry, rum raisin, plum, fig and raspberry illusions rush through candi-sugared sweetness. Buttery bourbon, burgundy and Chardonnay wining simmers inside rewarding black and red cherry canvas as well.
On tap at Copper Mine, interestingly divergent hybridized IPA brings abrupt habanero-peppered burn to overwhelmed up-front citric fruiting, bettering its slim hot-spiced competition. Grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering that leads the way for the standard Sculpin IPA (plus tertiary mango, guava, pineapple and papaya tropicalia) get whisked away by habanero heat as well as jalapeno chili peppering and phenol capsaicin pungency of deviously peculiar dry-bodied offshoot.
Rough-hewn hybridized dark wheat ale collides vinous Cuvee-like purple grape wining with coarsely sharp-hopped dried fruiting. Dessicated fig, raisin, apricot and banana spoilage as well as whiskey-soured citrus nuances infiltrate shaky pumpernickel wheat spine. Raspy alcohol burn swallowed up.
Assaultive full body brings bright floral fruiting to refreshingly spruce-tipped gin-like juniper bittering. Grapefruit-peeled orange rind bite lifts juicy pineapple, peach, melon, honeydew, strawberry, apple, passion fruit and mango briskness above cotton-candied honey sugaring. Oily cilantro-peppered hop resin and stiff alcohol burn sharpen spry fruitful luster as well as tertiary rose-watered lilac, daisy and dandelion nuances.
Spectacular 2012 version with heightened 15% alcohol volume brings lustier bourbon whiskey warmth to creamier chocolate-caked vanilla, anise and molasses richness. Belgian chocolate spicing drapes cherry cordial, whiskeyed cherry and cherry coughdrop illusions as well as less aggressive raisin-prune-fig dried fruiting. Jack Daniels whiskey, cognac and sherry undertones serenade chocolate brownie finish to wood-charred honeyed oats spine.
