Moderate pale golden dry body imparts flashy hop-spiced citric-quince tang to crystal malted alacrity and nut bread toasting, finishing thin.
TRUE NORTH CREAM ALE
Brisk water flow saturates smooth pumpernickel foundation. Sweet fruited malt caress, orange rind bittering, marble rye reminder, and dry nuttiness knock back light creaminess to compromised finish.
TROUT RIVER SCOTTISH ALE
Peculiar Scot-styled ale finds early charred wood affluence and Scotch malt waver seized by dull port wining. By thin finish, muted raisin-fig dip gives way to acrid orange-tangerine blotch and spicy cardamom splotch. On second passing, erratic fruited whiskey coarsening and sharp prune-fig pungency undermine musty peat earthiness.
TROUT RIVER RAINBOW RED ALE
Honeyed malt sweetness and earthen tea-tobacco dryness promptly counter spiced hop bitterness of burgundy-hued medium body. Unripe cherry, red apple, and peach tones abruptly usurped by orange pith midst, but astringent ester finish induces serrated acridity.
TROUT RIVER HOPPIN’ MAD TROUT I.P.A.
Terribly unassuming light-bodied India Pale Ale lacks proper body, pungency, and efficiency. Musty lemon quip outlines fizzy floral hop seam and acidic grapefruit remnant. Dank citric finish dulls depleted sweet yeast smidgen and coriander flash.
TROUT RIVER CHOCOLATE OATMEAL STOUT
Frothy tan-headed mahogany-bodied lactose-aided dry stout hides flaked oatmeal expectancy behind roasted coffee souring and raisin-almond-vanilla adjuncts. Maple malt succulence and black chocolate creaminess overrun by thin cocoa finish, leaving minimal nut trace.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER MUNICH STYLE GOLDEN LAGER
Under-whelming pearly-headed straw-bodied German-styled lager with sulfuric barnyard-hay waft stays soft and unassuming. Doughy yeast leaves baked bread imprint on honeyed malts and sour lemon astringency. Phenol-hopped finish conceals lemongrass murk and fleeting floral flutter.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER LIBERATOR DOPPELBOCK
Only a slight metallic astringency knocks back rich khaki-headed crimson-bodied double bock. Roasted chocolate malting stirs up bittersweet raisin-fig thickness to sticky molasses-maple finish. Powdered cocoa midst gains slim pecan-hazelnut tinge and charcoal singe.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER IRISH RED ALE
Peculiar maroon-ruby-hued medium body places buttery brown sugared Scotch malts atop smoked peat waver, black cherry-soured red grape tartness, and mild chestnut-peanut roast. Bittersweet baker’s chocolate absorbs faded Band-Aid mouthfeel. Metallic astringency compromises acrid earthen hop dryness.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER HOP MEADOW I.P.A.
Stylistic piney-hopped fruitiness glistens up-front as rich corn-husked grain-toasted malts settle behind. Floral-spiced peach-pineapple-grapefruit tang dangles surefire bittersweet template above phenol alcohol astringency.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER BLONDE ALE
Strange cabbage-y vegetal waft and off-putting diacetyl souring stifle miserly citric-herbal hop fizz outlasting honeyed wheat declination of cacophonous hazy golden medium body. Pleasingly, syrupy creamed corn sweetness not nearly as cloy or tacky as cognate beechwood-aged Budweiser.
(TROUTBROOK) THOMAS HOOKER AMERICAN PALE ALE
Well-rounded golden red-bodied ale gathers lively fruited spruce essence, honeyed barley-oats abundance, and perfumed floral component, resembling red ale more than labeled pale ale style. Autumnal cinnamon-allspice backdrop increases sour orange rind bittering and cherry tartness as raw-hopped pine nut harshness intensifies.