Deviously malleable Imperial Irish Red Ale closer to nut brown ale or mocha porter. Sweet brown chocolate entry picks up dark-roasted barley roast over sugary toffee malts as well as pine nut, hazelnut, chestnut and pecan nuttiness. Wispy raisin, plum and black cherry snips fade fast.
TRIANGLE INDIA PALE ALE
(CRAZY MOUNTAIN) MOUNTAIN LIVIN’ PALE ALE
Sessionable hot summer night canned ale maintains herbal hop-forward aggressiveness and pallid citric niche. Rye-dried back end needs deeper penetration.
(MOTHER EARTH) SECOND WIND PALE ALE
Easygoing sessionable canned pale ale with pungent pale malting, soured citrus fruiting and spritzy carbolic luster stays refreshingly light-bodied. Grassy-hopped vegetal spell allows crisp celery, fennel and carrot nuances to sidle subtle herbaceous nip.
(MOTHER EARTH) SUNNY HAZE HEFEWEIZEN
Dank straw-cleared canned German wheat ale suffers from funky compost waft, rotten orange musk and metallic snip. Soured lemon spritz overruns subdued banana-clove expectancy and alkaline acidity ruins bubblegum finish.
FIRE MOUNTAIN STEAM FIRED STOUT
Frantic dark-roasted chocolate malting inundates smoked molasses bittering, fudgy cookie dough sweetness and toasted oats sugaring. Crude hemp-oiled hop bittering deepens the dry cocoa-powdered finish.
FIRE MOUNTAIN BOGART NORTHWEST IPA
Sharp hop-spiced fruiting brightens as brisk orange-peeled grapefruit rind bittering ascends. Morris Otter malt sugaring and tangy apple-nectarine-tangerine juicing contrast wintry pine needling. Fresh-watered mineral graining provides crisp, clean base.
STARPOINT SURFIN’ BUDDHA IPA
Docile caramel-roasted piney fruiting allows lighter thirsts to crossover to bolder style. Juicy pear, apple, peach and marmalade fruiting stays on equal footing with expectant orange-peeled grapefruit rind bittering. In the backdrop, spruce-tipped citric hops contrast cocoa-nibbed chocolate malting.
STARPOINT DUH! DOUBLE RYE IPA
(OLDE HICKORY) HICKORY STICK STOUT
Dry hickory-smoked pungency absorbs dark-roasted mocha malting. Bitter black chocolate and coffee rampage gains tar-like hop oiling and ashen charcoal acridity. But watery coffee-roasted espresso finish loses body and texture after a few sips.
(OLDE HICKORY) BLACK RAVEN IPA
Hefty black chocolate roast contrasts sweet and sour orange-peeled grapefruit tang. Creamy coffee sugaring raids the mocha template while resinous hop-charred pining, earthen peat mossing and dark floral bouquet conquer the rustic backend.