Insubstantial brown-sugared caramel-butterscotch-chocolate malting too distantly slick for prickled hop-roasted oats toasting. Bland maple nuttiness receives flimsy sour-honeyed glaze.
TAPPETO VOLANTE
Poor musty Italian blonde lager with pearly-headed opaque-cleared hue lacks body, texture, and complexity, though crisp alpine-watered sparkle revives salty club soda spritz. Thin, watery, washed-out and soapy, its doughy malt spine cannot carryover sour rye breading, swilled corn-floured murk, and phenol citric musk.
BLUE MOON SPRING BLONDE WHEAT
Unassuming springtime seasonal (2011) retains crisply mild orange-lemon peeled tartness over delicate hop spicing. Citric hard candied sugaring reduced by fizzy carbolic nature to frail honeyed wheat spine. Soapy citron finish is neither unpleasant nor offensive.
SAMUEL ADAMS SUMMER ALE 2011
Closer to a lightened India Pale Ale with its wood-spiced bittering lingering across advertised lemon-peeled grains of paradise fruiting. Subsequent white-peppered Belgian-like candi-sugaring and minor herbal nuances bring further peculiarities to emboldened medium-bodied seasonal.
MOOSEHEAD LIGHT LIME
Cloying saccharine-like lime soda likeness may put off all but fruited malt beverage lunkheads. Dry lime spritzer (with acrid hop-fizzed aridity and straw-yellowed hue) picks up definite agave influence, but goes flat quick. Sugary lemonade snip, tart white-yellow grape parching, and zesty menthol herbage round out trendy light-bodied desiccation.
RED HOOK MUD SLINGER SPRING ALE
Vacuous and overbearingly slick copper-bronzed session beer from hell. Faintest cocoa-dusted sugar wafer placidity and muted plum-fig conflux barely register alongside nebulous hop astringency. Unnoticeable 5.8% alcohol volume adds to the drear.
EAST COAST BEACH HAUS PILSNER
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, vigorous pre-prohibition-styled pale body reaches creamy honeyed malt summit. Sharply salted grassy-hopped spicing underscores corn-sugared cereal graining contrasting tart lemon-peeled yellow-fruited bittering. A well-balanced full-bodied changeup that’s more robust and flavorful than typical light pilsner fare.
MIKKELLER BEER GEEK BRUNCH WEASEL
Curiously, defecated weasel excrement picks up enzymes in the digestive system (from eaten coffee berries) to create very interesting and worthwhile crap! Terrific black velvet Imperial Oatmeal Stout (with ruby highlights) retains strong black coffee theme and creamy espresso supplement for extremely peculiar brunch digestif. Strong coffee frontage well integrated to chocolate-caked crème brulee sweetness, viscous Blackstrap molasses malting and rich burgundy-port wining for rigidly robust rapscallion. Heavily roasted oats embed massive hop char from top to bottom, heightening heavenly coffee insistence as well as subsidiary berry contingent and black cherry niche.
PORTERHOUSE WRASSLERS FULL STOUT
Middling dry Irish stout lets slick plastic impression and everlastingly harsh charcoal tarred bittering disrupt decent blackened mocha theme. Resounding coffee-burnt dark chocolate frontage accrues resinous hop char and dirty earthen spell. Ashen plum, prune and raisin subsidy lost amidst acrid phenol doldrums. On second passing, peat-soiled marble rye, pungent black tea, bourbon and molasses undertones nip at the bitter black chocolate finish.
WEYERBACHER MARCIA I.P.A.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, wood-lacquered English-styled India Pale Ale (known as Hop Project #2) retains tart grapefruit-peeled acridity, earthen bark-dried desiccation, and strong alcohol burn. Milled oats graze alcohol-burnt yellow fruiting and tobacco-leafed dark floral nuance. Minor beechwood smoking detected in far distance.
SAMUEL ADAMS CHOCOLATE CHERRY BOCK
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, syrupy full body conveys creamy Black Forest-caked cherry cordial theme. Fudged brown chocolate, whiskeyed Maraschino cherry, maple-sapped hazelnut, black cherry soda and vanilla illusions add further sugary sweetness to nearly cloying dessert beer that’s more chewy than gooey.
SAMUEL ADAMS OAK AGED PORTER
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, opulent crème brulee theme spreads across blackened mocha malting, peat whiskey nudge, and oaken vanilla smudge. Sharp hop-charred nuttiness seeps into dark-roasted graining, but residual barrel-aged fuming needs deeper penetration for fuller overall body and richer chocolate finish.
