
KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE
In an old-fashioned community at red-bricked Industrial mall, Keene's Colony Mill Marketplace,
ELM CITY BREWERY had an easy appeal matched by its fruity brews during January ’06 visit. Marked by a small green awning, its cedar booth area leads to midsize bar, where corner TV’s and awning-hanging club mugs reside (fronting extra dining space).
Glass encased leftward brew tanks served deliciously juicy peach-cored, rye wheat-backed
Peachy Keene, lusciously ripe berry-tongued soft-grained
Raspberry Wheat, lactic, candi-sugared, orange peel-embittered, berry-tart
Belgian Tripel and vegetal fig-dried currant-hopped wood-tinged
Hoppy New Beer.
After meeting brewer Bill Dunn, went on to discover toffee-malted alcohol-burnt wood-grained
Nor’easter Scottish Wee Heavy, dry nutty
Old Castle Brown Ale and creamily black chocolate-y hazelnut-coffee-saddled
Perfect 10 (a dry-bodied Russian Imperial Stout).
Wintry seasonals included soft red-fruited hop-embittered
Rudolph Red and Roggenbock-like prune-stewed orange-bruised nutmeg-tinged
Christmas Cru.
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