Lifeless straw-yellowed German pilsner-like bantamweight retains highly carbolic Seltzer flow and mild citric tartness. Distant lemon-curried mandarin orange illusion peaks through phenol grassy-hopped placidity. Simply too plain and unassuming.
TAPS RED ALE
Straightforward medium-bodied crystal-malted amber-toned red ale brings anticipated cereal grain roast and toasted caramel malting to hop-oiled buttered popcorn astringency, overriding dry orange compote tartness. Thin cracked wheat finish is washed-out. Wears out its welcome after few sips.
PRETTY THINGS JACK D’OR SAISON
Ambitious farmhouse-styled saison retains bitter-hopped herbal-nosed floral-spiced tropicalia. Resilient black, white, and lemon peppered grapefruit rind bittering contrasts honey-malted peach-pear-tangerine juicing, tropical pineapple-mango-kiwi surge, and wild-flowered dandelion-daisy-sunflower influence to creamy vanilla stead. Zesty lemon-pledged Granny Smith apple souring secures backend. More enjoyable with each sip, peeling away layers of rounded flavors.
POINT NUDE BEACH SUMMER WHEAT
Rich amber-hazed wheat perfectly befits sunny summertime sipping. Creamy honeyed yeast sinew lathers lemony banana-orange fruiting and downplayed clove-coriander spicing. Mild hop bittering and spritzy lemon zest contrast luscious butterscotch ascent. Despite unfiltered American styling, closer to full-bodied German-styled wiessbier.
LEFT HAND OKTOBERFEST MARZEN LAGER
Plain German-styled March-brewed moderate-bodied lager placates bland honey-roasted Vienna malting with recessive barley-toasted cocoa-buttered almond-pecan-chestnut sway. Rankled phenol-hopped vegetal stint submerges orange-oiled grape nut affinity to biscuit-y bottom. Some metallic debris encumbers backend of absolutely directionless mess. Better 2018 version brought sweet Vienna malt relief to brown apple-pear illusions and leafy hop-oiled foliage.
LEFT HAND 400 POUND MONKEY INDIA PALE ALE
Brusque Old World English-styled IPA recommended to traditionalist British pub hounds who’ll take umbrage with negative designations. Expect tinny copper ale or musty Dortmunder likeness instead of more fashionable fruit-juiced pine-hopped bittering. Earthen fungi waft and black tea entry heighten weirdly vegetal broccoli rabe snippet, skunked herbal funk, and minor juniper astringency. Gnarly rye-hopped leaf-dried nut-smoked acridity relegates organic grain richness. Unlike American IPA’s, there’s no fruited sweetness countering rugged bitterness. Serve to savvy Brits and experimental pubcrawlers.
(NEUMARKTER) LAMMSBRAU PILSNER
Crisply appealing raw-grained straw-hazed light body. Carbolic lemon-limed Seltzer fizzing affects mild grassy-hopped herbal-spiced citric bittering. Subtle crystal malt creaminess contrasts scant wheat-husked barnyard-hay leathering to tidily astringent finish.
(NEUMARKTER) LAMMSBRAU DUNKEL
Easygoing organically barley-malted Bavarian dark lager retains soft-watered flow, dewy earthen funk, and banana-browned fruit-dried nature to timid caraway-seeded rye-breaded spine. Amiable fig-date-prune sedation, reticent chocolate-covered raisin paucity, and meager chocolate nibs influence find space between. Likable light-bodied German beer may not have enough stylistic honeyed wheat efficacy but milder tastes will be appreciative.
MOLSON BRADOR
For what it’s worth, one of the better mass-marketed malt liquor-like strong lagers of the ‘90s. Honeyed corn sugar buttering and chemical-like alcohol whir override overripe dry-hopped banana fruiting to frisky ginger-snapped finish. Creamy crystal malting nearly pushes this over the top.
MISSION SHIPWRECKED DOUBLE IPA
Bright floral-fruited alacrity lacquers creamy caramel malting contrasting resinous piney-hopped mildness of affable medium-bodied Imperial IPA. Clandestine 9% alcohol vigor stays beneath grapefruit-sugared apricot-cherry-tangerine tang and setback pineapple-mango glisten. Recessive almond, pecan, and hazelnut illusions backup well-rounded ensemble.
HARPOON UFO WHITE
Docile straw-hazed unfiltered witbier receives lively yellow-fruited entry above thin wheat wafer frailty. Prickly-hopped lemon-soured orange peel bittering upends dry coriander-spiced mandarin orange frivolity and zippy banana sweetness to unstable white-breaded floral wheat spine.
GOOSE ISLAND NIGHT STALKER IMPERIAL STOUT
Interestingly complex full-bodied ink black stout pleats deep-roasted espresso into oats-sugared chocolate-caked dried-fruiting and resin-hopped charcoal-smoked cedar stain. Mighty ethanol-like 11.7% alcohol fuming saturates vanilla-creamed chocolate-covered cherry sweetness, gooey anise upheaval, and recessive raisin-fig conflux. Muscat grape, molasses cookie, and black coffee illusions fill out dry backend of richly overpowering heavyweight.
