Juicily refreshing Mosaic-hopped NEIPA with advertised candied pineapple and blueberry fruiting spiraling thru yellow and pink grapefruit, sweet orange peel, salted mango and tangy tangerine as lemony spritz prickles white wheated oats flaked creaming.
Dry coppery amber ale plies dewy peat mossing to softly creamed caramel malting as mild coffee roast picks up wattle seed, pumpernickel, chestnut and cocoa whims as well as distant phenol astringency.
Bitter dark ale fans rejoice! Black chocolate-embittered dark roast barley, nut-singed hop char and caramel-burnt vanilla beaning lie in mildly creamed Blackstrap molasses treacle.
Decadent Palo Santo-wooded rum and bourbon aged oatmeal stout blends rummy bourbon vanilla sugaring with bittersweet dark chocolate fudging, toasted coconut sweetness and cedar-smoked dark molasses oats. Rich cookie dough base fortifies frothily creamed coconut-caked chocolate bourbon nightcap.
Polite upfront coffee roast given muted powder-sugared vanilla creaming and rummy Kahlua snip for understated White Russian cocktail knockoff. Below the delicate surface lie lemon meringue, cream soda, cornbread and yellow fig wisps. Slight green pepper snip underscores slightly coarse phenolic backend.
Sunny lemon zesting, sweet orange peel tang and bitter yellow grapefruit juicing join lesser mango-guava-lychee tropicalia and lacquered wood respite. Lingering citrus bittering gains clean vodka brining.
Dry floral perfumed citrus zing gains mild piney hop astringency while pale malt sugaring falls flat. Zesty yellow grapefruit, orange peel and pineapple tanginess could be upped.
Oddball spice ale inspired by gingery rum-spiced Dark & Stormy cocktail lets dry lime spritz subdue ginger influence as well as star anise and cinnamon sweetness and Tahitian vanilla botanicals. Closer to a lemon-limed 7Up.
In the can, skunked cabbage waft and murky lemon-rotted orange adjunct scour anticipated banana-clove sweetness, picking up dried plantain starching. Better on tap.
LAUREL, MARYLAND
Starting on a small pilot system in 2013, JAILBREAK BREWING COMPANY became fully operational as Howard County’s first production brewery a year hence. Crafting “dramatic” beers midway between Baltimore and D.C. along the Patuxent River in the small town of Laurel, Jailbreak occupies a large facility inside a tannish red brick professional mall.
The corrugated aluminum-sided, silestone-topped, 15-seat bar serves 16 draughts and top shelf liquor and an earthen flat-stoned wall backdrop complements the gray and black walls. A midsection couched lounge with four pinball games leads to the porcelain wood-floored pub area.
During November 2021, Jailbreak opened a mammoth left side kitchen serving fresh meats and fish to go alongside their wide variety of homemade elixirs. Several large lacquered wood tables and four sets of stooled seats fill out the high ceilinged dining room.
Windowed brewtanks behind the bar contained the nifty suds sucked down alongside a sausage and fennel pizza on my February ’24 trek. Canned beers to-go reviewed in Beer Index.
Brisk lemon zesting picked up sharp spicing for rye dried Southern Crossed Pilsner, a New Zealand-styled lightweight with Nelson Sauvin-hopped guava and gooseberry tartness softly embedding the muskily grained backend.
Spritzy lemon-dried Boats & Hose, a sessionable Caribbean lager, picked up mild floral spicing and slightest caramel apple, red grape and tangerine daubs for its papery pilsner malt gluiness.
Moldy orange-dried autumnal leaf crisping stamped moderate Vienna Lager, Crabtown Classic, dispersing dank oily hop moisture.
Mild orange zesting caressed the balmy banana-clove-bubblegum sweetness of citric hefeweizen, Feed The Monkey, to its sourdough base.
Lovely coffee-roasted espresso bittering draped by dark chocolate syrup for oatmeal raisin cookie confection of molasses-dried oatmeal stout, Kaleidoscopic Images Of Love, underscored by caramelized Maris Otter malting.
Kentucky bourbon-barreled maple syruping engaged luxurious English-styled Barleywine Is Beer, leaving rummy chocolate, sweet burgundy, sherry, whiskey and dark cherry illusions on its caramel-burnt bourbon luster.