Winning collaboration with nearby Long Island brewer, Southampton, boasts ample tea-like dry rye theme and residual lemony sugaring. Sharp Cascade-hopped herbal peppering and astringent earthen fungi pungency hoist rye grained spunk.
EMELISSE BARLEYWINE
Goodly slow sipper pleats buttery cognac warmth beneath sweet almondine sparkle as well as chocolate-roasted toasted almond, honeycomb and caramel illusions. Tart red cherry and vinous grape lightly embitter backdrop of approachable English-styled barleywine.
EVIL TWIN SOFT DOOKIE VANILLA IMPERIAL STOUT
Rich molasses-sugared brown chocolate, crème de cocoa and vanilla creaming overrides sharp currant-spiced oatmeal cookie bulk. Black cherry undertones find space beneath mocha proclivities.
EVIL TWIN THE TALENTED MR. ORANGUTAN
Peculiarly captivating mocha stout brewed with orange peel (!) brings sharp-spiced Belgian chocolate to roasted coffee midst. Could pass for a black chocolate-fronted Irish Stout or a amiable schwarzbier. Advertised orange peel bittering sits at tart backend.
EVIL TWIN YIN
Eloquent Imperial Stout brings creamy chocolate spicing to brown-sugared fudge, molasses and vanilla illusions. Espresso-milked coffee bean bittering and minor hop char underscore sweet mocha tendencies.
EVIL TWIN YANG
Wondrous tropical-fruited Imperial India Pale Ale maintains approachable crossover appeal as resinous piney bittering never overrides tangy apricot-pineapple-orange barrage and creamy caramel malting. Despite IPA tag, expectant pine-needled grapefruit peel bite sits way below sweet candi-sugared juicy fruiting.
EVIL TWIN WILLIAMSBURG HIPSTER ALE
Simple sessionable pale ale for hip Brooklyn plebians. Woody hop dryness saturates dried orange-apricot tartness and minor grapefruit rind bittering. Caramel-malted almond toasting recedes beneath floral citric finish.
EVIL TWIN YIN & YANG BLACK & TAN
On tap, Yin’s rich chocolate malting outdoes Yang’s tropical fruiting for resilient B & T. Roasted chocolate, cocoa and vanilla contrast currant-spiced black cherry tones. Betters most competitors.
HILL FARMSTEAD HARLAN INDIA PALE ALE
On tap, approachable IPA brings brisk-watered tropical fruiting to creamy crystal malting, both of which contrast polite herb-spiced citric bittering. Ripe pineapple, peach and quince tang affects sun-dried plum, fig and date triage above mild grapefruit-peeled orange rind bitterness. Slight woody astringency at backend.
SOUTHAMPTON KELLER PILS
Bold copper-hazed German pilsner boasting “unfiltered varietal hops” tosses crisp orange zest, tart lemon-pitted souring and salty white-peppered wood varnishing at resinous hop prickle. Impending cereal-grained sweetness contrasts straw wheat acridity and latent herbal snip. Tertiary sunflower-seeded lemongrass undertones sidle clay-like sourdough finish. Expressive late summer session beer never fails to surprise.
MC SORLEY’S IRISH PALE ALE
Slick, indistinct, lame. Astringent grassy-hopped orange-dried spicing develops mucky diacetyl buttering over doughy breading. Meager honeyed almond undertone fades. Stick with much better Smithwick’s Irish Red Ale instead.
SIERRA NEVADA ESTATE HOMEGROWN WET HOP ALE
Leisurely wet-hopped India Pale Ale stays stylistically light, bettering most blandly unsweetened organic competitors. Freshly tilled earthen graining complements zesty grapefruit rind bittering, sharp herbal hop spicing, and resinous piney bottom. Silken crystal sugaring underlies mild stone fruiting. As it warms, honeyed peach, apricot tea, red cherry, lemon zest, passion fruit and a hint of mint find tertiary space.