CHAPPY’S TAP ROOM & GRILLE

BEER PUB
 
MORAINE, OHIO
 
Easily one of the best beer bars in the Buckeye State, CHAPPY’S TAP ROOM & GRILLE is located at the Alex Bell Center mall just off Route 75 in the industrial town of Moraine. Just five minutes south of Dayton, this cordial sportsbar not only features great tapped beers, but also the finest large portions of  fried chicken, homemade crabcakes and Cajun-fried or beer-battered shrimp.
 
 
On my first visit, September ’12, my friend Fred and I ordered a full rack of delicious barbecue ribs as we settled into a few terrific tapped beers (fully reviewed in the Beer Index). Sitting at a table in the central bar area (with 20 bar stools, 7 tables and multi-TV’s), we tried the soothingly smooth Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale and Urthel Hop-It (an exquisite herbal fruited Belgian IPA) emanating from the rotating selection of tile-walled tap handles.
 
True beer buffs will enjoy the descriptive beer and ale menu, which included 100 bottled microbrews alongside 25 tapped choices. After supper, Fred and I relaxed with the highly impressive Brew Kettle Old 21 Imperial IPA, a vibrant Ohio-brewed full body with bright citric and tropical fruiting, resinous hop-oiled floral illusions and sugary malt sweetness.
 
Ultimately, this brown-and-tan publick house in the middle of a quaint mall certainly deserves plaudits and their attentive bartending staff did an excellent job serving brews and pub grub. Beer enthusiasts of every stripe will be thoroughly pleased.
 
 
 
 

 

(FLYING DOG) INTERNATIONAL ARMS RACE ZERO IBU I.P.A. (BREWED WITH BERRIES & HERBS)

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Impeccable hybridized (2012 limited edition) botanical India Pale Ale is canine-steered Flying Dog/ Brew Dog collaboration with mutinous zero IBU hop measurement. Fine exotic herbal recipe smears tenacious blueberry-juniper theme above refreshing bay-leafed spearmint, rosemary and ginger seasoning. Brisk carbolic fizz prickles the tongue, reinforcing wild berry succulence and brisk orange peel niche. Usual piney citrus IPA flavoring dispelled by blueberry, edlerberry and huckleberry insistence. 

(FLYING DOG) INTERNATIONAL ARMS RACE ALE BREWED WITH SPICES

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The revolution against safe beers goes beyond restrictive boundaries with this limited edition 2012 offering. Gaining a spicier herbal seasoning than Berries & Herbs version, richly grain-malted medium-bodied gruit places dramatic gin-soaked blueberry lacquering atop white-peppered juniper-twigged bittering. Sugary crystal malting balances the bitterness and enlightens the wild berry finish.

LOST ABBEY LOST & FOUND ALE

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Musky monastic-styled Belgian dubbel, “brewed with raisins,” works sour dried fruiting into phenol hop coarsening and a sharp metallic sheen. Tempered raisin persuasion picks up light molasses-sapped caramel malting, but expectant candi-sugared sweetness lacks. Vinous green and yellow grape tannins bring mid-palate pucker to fig-dried banana breading. A hint of bourbon, almondine and chestnut found in deep recess.

 

PRETTY THINGS FIELD MOUSE’S FAREWELL GOLDEN ALE

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Defying timid golden ale designation and much better defined as a fruitier saison, action-packed full body tosses peppery herbal-hopped briskness and honeyed rye graining at sleek citric-spiced persuasion. Lemon zest, naval orange, pink grapefruit, honeydew, peach, nectarine and banana illusions caress crystal-sugared malts. Mild sage, rosemary and woodruff seasoning brings musty twilight setting to lovely all-around fruiting.

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GREAT RIVER REDBAND STOUT WITH COFFEE

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Marvelously mellow espresso-beaned stout so soft and creamy it’s got to be a godsend. Prodigious Jamaican roast coffee theme soars above milky black chocolate backdrop where pithy cocoa, vanilla and hazelnut illusions lurk. After a few sips, distant black-peppered jalapeno heat creeps into resilient green coffee bean extraction. Mild enough for softies but rich enough for mocha lovers. Arguably the best canned dark ale from America.

  

GREAT RIVER ROLLER DAM RED ALE

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OK tin-canned version of amber-hazed moderate body proves to be a dependable, if subdued, Irish Red Ale blending saison-like fruiting with toasted caramel malts. Wispy orange-soured grapefruit peel entry fades into cherry-dried green apple tartness above peppery juniper hop spicing. Black tea dalliance and earthen minerality negatively affected by coarse metallic rusting as well as funky compost waft.