Nifty orange-hazed Bavarian-styled weizenbock creates Bananas Foster theme with its creamy rum-spiced banana-clove entry. Ancillary lemony pineapple-mango briskness receives mustard-seeded ethanol burn. Banana cream pie, banana bread and banana pudding illusions glide by.
Crisply easygoing saison may have more character than brewers’ earliest farmhouse creations (as of December 2011). Spicy tangerine-apricot tang, lightly orange-spiced tartness and juicy pear proclivity contrast resinous earthen-hopped mineral-grained mustiness. Sunny summertime fruiting saturates shiny fresh-watered purity. Tertiary floral, pecan, and rye illusions scattered about.
Vigorously strong dark ale takes lactic schwarzbier-like maltose on a dried-fruited journey through smoked molasses malts. Incipient cocoa bean bittering receives complementary Belgian-spiced dark chocolate roast over black cherry, currant raisin, plum and fig undertones. Dirty earthen soiling and deep-roasted hop bittering secure rich bottom. On tap at Ambulance Brewhouse, complexities abounded. Belgian yeast-inspired chocolate spicing receives deeper dried fruiting as bruised blackberry, brambleberry and blueberry sugaring contrasts dry port-burgundy wining. Anise, chocolate cake and chocolate-covered cherry illusions seep thru.
Stellar Belgian-styled golden-hazed saison boasting herbal white sage primacy sharpens peppery basil-rosemary-thyme seasoning with sharply expressive Citra-hopped spicing. Limey grapefruit-orange-apricot fruiting saddles ample herbage, tart lemon seeding and plasticene ethanol kick to sourdough wheat backbone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.