GREEN FLASH RAYON VERT BELGIAN STYLE PALE ALE

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Overactive and ‘continuously evolving’ yellow-bellied wild ale spews rocky white-headed foam all over if soft-watered suds gets poured too quickly. Black-peppered cilantro and basil frontload capacious herbal entry above zesty citric endurance, resinous hop bittering and musty cellar-like yeast funk. Ancillary thyme, chamomile and peppercorn engage oncoming plasticene cologne lacquering. Fresh key lime pie ascendency brings lightened mandarin orange, white grape, green apple and bosc pear illusions to tertiary pine nut jut. Dry wheat-husked barnyard, horsehide, hay and alfalfa earthiness saddles backend of busy Belgian-styled farmhouse ale.

 

THE DUCK-RABBIT BROWN ALE

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Coarsely dry nut-bound medium body brings peanut-shelled walnut char and chicory coffee roast to ashen hop bittering. Raw-honeyed maple molasses sapping thickens ancillary brown-sugared chocolate malting and tertiary tar-like astringency. But advertised ‘spicy citrus bitterness’ lacks pep as a hybridized adjunct, leaving blackened grain roast to fend off latent charcoal acridity.  
 
 

(DIAMOND KNOT) WHIP ALE

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Pour slowly aggressive tan-headed pale ale or bubbly suds will overflow. Herbal mineral graining and peppery hop bittering contrast citric effervescence. Basil, rosemary, parsley, celantro, lemongrass and saffron season dried apricot, pink grapefruit and tangelo illusions above tea-like backdrop. Caramelized Vienna malting caresses soft doughy underbelly.      
 

STARR HILL DOUBLE PLATINUM IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE

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Dependable medium-bodied amber-cleared crossover for lighter pale ale thirsts despite bold 8% ABV and Double IPA tag. Casual citric-hopped bittering sticks to pine-sapped hemp-oiled tongue, but lacks thick resonation of richer stylistic competition. Sugar-caned caramel malt toasting embeds grapefruit-peeled orange rind prickle and sweet pineapple-mango-peach-pear-apricot conflux for nice contrast.

LOST RHINO NEW RIVER PALE ALE

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Opulent pine-needled fruit spicing of an India Pale Ale meets the musty earthen peat dryness dabbing an English-styled Extra Special Bitter. Lacquered peach-pineapple-pear-tangerine tang binds mild crystal malt creaming and hard-candied sugaring to wheat biscuit backend. Grassy-hopped bottom picks up resinous undertone at citric finish. Betters most milder pale ales.

   

LEFT HAND STRANGER AMERICAN PALE ALE

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Mild dry-bodied amber-yellowed moderation embellishes barley biscuit sweetness and rye-honeyed crystal malting with doughy notions. Prickly grapefruit-tinged lemon zest tingles floral-spiced grassy hop astringency and herbaceous vegetal tinge. A smoothly straightforward session beer whose name is a misnomer since there’s nothing ‘strange’ about this pleasantly ephemeral offering.