Elegant soft-tongued dark German lager retains smooth dried fruit appeal. Brown-sugared caramel malting spreads across candied orange, soured prune, sugared fig, pureed raisin, black cherry and cola nuttiness. Aromatic red-wined bourbon-burgundy illusions vie for attention and chocolate-chalked Devils Food Cake backdrop provides further resilience.
Brusque cider-like oaken cherry souring needs richer flavor profile. Apple-spiced green grape tartness remits vinous lambic-like pucker for mahogany-browned fruit ale. Corky hop dryness usurps montmorency cherry influence.
Slick mocha malting and sour lactic astringency denigrate roasted peanut, walnut, hazelnut, and Brazil nut coarsening of flaccid English-styled Brown Ale. Dry hop-charred bittering depletes caramel-toffee sweetness and earthen peat sneak.
Summery blue-canned moderate body ain’t bad for macrobrewed fluff. Billowy white-headed, pale-yellowed session beer with understated hop-spiced tingle and slim crystal malting plies grassy straw-wheat-hay earthiness to herb-tinged lemon peel zest and faintest pineapple-grapefruit tang. Watery texture lowers appeal.
Dismal updated version of defunct H.C. Berger’s popular red ale done in by phenol hop astringency and iodized metallic tinge, depleting short-lived toasted almond prelude. Scathing alcohol burn restricts apple-soured dried apricot tartness.
Vapid pale-yellowed moderation downgrades mainstream Canadian version. Astringent hop acridity, thin white-breaded base, and soapy pale-malted nut spicing deprive brief spun-sugared sweetness. Nifty citric-rotted lemon-limed spritz needs brighter up-front flavor profile.
Peerless golden-hazed perfume-wafted blonde ale way more interesting, assertive, and dynamic than usual moderate-bodied hefeweizens. Banana-chipped coriander-clove spicing and sweet vanilla-butterscotch creaming spread across soft fizz-hopped pep. Meringue pied apple, melon, peach, pear, and clementine illusions filter through marmalade midst. Further sips reveal tart white and green grape esters, lemony orange-tangerine tang, and lurking bubblegum sensation. On tap 2011, juicy orange tang brightened deluxe interior even better.
Refined copper-bronzed ‘Finnish ale brewed with juniper twigs’ described thusly as a light barleywine, adjunct brown ale, special winter ale and rustic Euro sahti. Subtle medium-bodied intricacy combines brown, white and Belgian chocolate spicing with brown-sugared caramel roast. Molasses rye breading and toasted almond whim settle into the delicate mix. Vanilla bean, rum raisin, maple, cherry, and apple illusions flow through tertiary dark nuttiness. A mild complexity worth exploring.
Striking moderate-bodied witbier brings abundant orange-peeled clementine-tangerine-lemon tang to peppery sediment-chunked Belgian yeast funk. Banana, vanilla and butterscotch further sweeten floral-perfumed citric spunk, delicate clove-coriander-cinnamon spicing and mentholated hibiscus-eucalyptus remnant. Perfect for sunny afternoon consumption. On tap at Nanuet Mall’s Yard House, orange rotted clementine juicing swept thru more pronounced hop-dried juniper bittering and softer white wheat bed.
Complex soft-textured dry body similar to newfangled Black IPA/ Cascadian Black styling due to resinous wood-charred hop oiling, enduring dark-fruited nuttiness and recessive pine comb bitterness contrasting creamy dark chocolate malting. Lingered French roast coffee finish picks up ashen walnut-seared peanut shelling,chewy cookie-doughed hazelnut-pecan tangent,and tar-like Blackstrap molasses astringency reinforcing tertiary bruised cherry, fig, and prune nuances. ‘A sexy American interpretation’ of a heady brown ale, indeed.
Bold adjunct ale brings resinous pine-sapped citric hop bittering and ashen charcoal char to creamy cocoa-molasses base. Chewy peat-smoked black chocolate malting, subsidiary dark-roasted coffee scamper, and scant cherry cordial illusions elevate mocha rampage. Tertiary pink grapefruit and black grape tartness seeps into caliginous mochaccino dusk.
Wily amber-hazed red ale appears brassier and heavier malted than iconoclastic Rogue Dead Guy. Perfectly robust blend of earthen mineral graining, woody Amarillo hop spicing and toasted caramel malting sidles frisky orange-peeled grapefruit bittering. Subsidiary cherry, apple, and berry illusions perk up dark floral undertones as toffee-butterscotch sweetness gathers strength. At finish, harsh alcohol burn deepens ripe fruited plain of limited edition liquid.
