Well balanced, but ill-defined, springtime moderation (with generic label) crosses biscuit-y wheat-cracked helles lager with citric-spiced maibock. Glutinous baked bread flouring picks up lemon-soured grapefruit, cherry, orange and cherry tartness above tertiary honey nut, pralin eand pecan illusions. On tap, smoother dried citrus fruiting pervades.
LEFT HAND SAWTOOTH ESB – NITRO
On tap at Copper Mine, excellent nitro-injected Extra Special Bitter retains peachy orange pekoe tea thrust above mineral-grained inertia and sugary malt sweetness. Billowy foam softens the creamy mouthfeel. Mossy peat earthiness and wispy herbal tinge embrace mild tea leafing.
TROEGS MIGHTY MOOSE MILD – SCRATCH SERIES
Understated English Pale Ale retains delicate caramel malting, mild mandarin orange tartness and gentle hop-spiced fizz. Minty herbal tinge detected.
BOCKOR OMER. TRADITIONAL BLOND ALE
Subtly rewarding Belgian-styled tripel soft enough to be labeled a blond. Billowy-tongued sourdough malting brings baguette, barley biscuit, French bread and buttered crumpet tones to the fore. Carbolic fizz tickles delicate grassy-hopped citric spicing. Lemon-candied peach wisp embeds honeyed wheat base and sweet corn reminder.
FEGLEY’S ALWAYS SUNNY PALE ALE
Casual sessionable moderate body punctuates dry-wooded Chinook hops with prickly grapefruit-peeled bittering to biscuit-y wheat backdrop. Lemon rind, green grape and apple illusions fade in and out of salty bottom.
21ST AMENDMENT BITTER AMERICAN
Subdued session ale in a can retains dry soft-toned nature. Delicate hop-spiced fruiting stays just beneath helles lager-like honeyed biscuit surface. Effervescent apricot, pink grapefruit, pineapple and orange tang sweetens almond-toasted caramel malting. Metallic twang brings minor astringency to pleasant light body.
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CISCO MONOMOY KRIEK
Debatable cherry-soured American Wild Ale with Flemish Red Ale leanings (and labeled a Belgian kriek) lacks efficient carbolic nature but scores points as a brettanomyces-laden Sour Ale. Aged in oak barrels, its tart cherry pucker gets underscored by cork-y cider dryness, vinous green grape tannins, raspberry vinaigrette musk and frisky white-peppered snip. Leathery farmhouse funk saddles oaken cherry theme.
SOUTHERN TIER EUROTRASH PILZ
Gruff Eastern European-styled corn-grained malt liquor astringency and burly Dutch-like pungent bitterness softened precipitously by doughy yeast sweetness. Grassy-hopped husked wheat dryness contrasts perfumed citrus mildness and mild floral nuance to biscuit-y bottom. Sessionable lawnmower fodder.
HAVERHILL GESTALT GERMAN -STYLE BROWN ALE
Wayward altbier with ‘crisp German lager’ tendencies and a ‘hoppy pale ale punch’ brings ‘brown ale malt backbone’ to nebulous nutty finish. Acrid phenol astringency overrides any taciturn flavoring. Ashy peanut-shelled oiling negates frail walnut-hazelnut-pecan pinch as mired mocha malting dissipates. Crusty burnt bread reminder seeps into dirty earthen graining.
MAYFLOWER INDIA PALE ALE
Everlasting piney-hopped grapefruit rind bittering sticks to spice-malted tongue. Tropical pineapple-mango conflux and apple-peach undertones sweeten resinous hop oils. Wispy floral potpourri serenades citric juicing. A hop-head delight.
MAYFLOWER PALE ALE
Straightforward moderate-bodied English pale ale brings biscuit-y cereal malts, sourdough yeast and toasted almond to orange marmalade midst. Orange-oiled citric undertones contrast helles bock-like bread crusting. Crisply easygoing session beer.
MAYFLOWER GOLDEN ALE
Bettering most in its moderate-bodied class, inviting lawnmower fodder keeps it simple. Silken sourdough yeast frontage is drier than Mayflower’s similarly-styled Pale Ale. Slim citric tease and minimal floral spicing caress buttered baked bread finish. A touch of honeycomb sweetens the delicate wheat spine. Elegant, yet approachable, and worthy of mass appeal.