Intricately designed English IPA-styled medium body (in generically labeled bottle) based on interesting Lebanese ingredients. Dry-hopped herbal spices smoothly lather cocoa-malted base. Wild thyme, chamomile, sage, mint and anise waver across ginger-rooted vegetalia. Subtle complexities take hybridized pale ale just a few steps beyond stylistic dimensions.
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WILD WOLF ALPHA PALE ALE
Refreshing yellow grapefruit-peeled bittering overwhelms piney citra-hop stead. Mild lemon-seeded rasp and wispy peach juicing provide tertiary undertones. Crisp mineral watered briskness well-attuned to unending citric pleasantries. Never overbearingly bitter like stylistically stronger IPA’s, yet hopheads will be delighted and grapefruit lovers pleased.
(PRISM) PAR TEA PALE ALE
Pour slowly ambiguously sessionable tea-leafed moderation or risk carbolic overflow. Easygoing black tea influence given subtle grapefruit-peeled lemon zest, wispy pineapple tartness and snipped botanical herbage. At backend, mineral-grained rye breading picks up honeyed citric zip.
SARANAC BIG MOOSE ALE
Underdeveloped lemony grapefruit-orange rind bittering picks up herbal perfumed hop oiling over tepid caramel-toasted English pale malt profile. Lightly salted pretzel nuance and phenolic floral spicing backend murky piney citic finish. Needs to be fruitier.
BRUTON LILITH
Inpsired by British bitter styling, mineral-grained pale ale brings earthen wood dryness and reedy hop resin to caramel-malted dried fruiting. Grape-jammed fig, plum and grapefruit undertones recede to weedy bottom.
16 MILE OLD COURT ALE
Courteous moderate-bodied ‘dark pale ale’ brings caramel-burnt dark toffee sweetness to fig-dried citric hops and earthen fungi backend. Nut bread reminder wavers in the distance.
MAINE PEEPER ALE
Immaculate sunshine-glazed pale ale retains clean, refreshing, dry-hopped citric theme. Floral-bound orange peel, grapefruit rind and lemon zest serenity picks up mild peppery hop spicing, piney cologne perfuming and salty carbolic pep. Lightly creamed crystal malts underlie brisk citrus effervescence of well-balanced sessionable easygoer.
BARREL TROLLEY PALE ALE
Disappointingly amorphous English pale ale tries re-creating prohibition-era bottlegger fodder in bland manner. Phenol hop astringency and diacetyl buttering ransack vapid lemon-apple-pear fruiting. Metallic tinge and ethanol burn coarsen thin corn-dried backend.
OLD FORGE T-RAIL PALE ALE
On tap at Smiling Chameleon, soft-toned citric spritzer reaches moderate India Pale Ale-like heights with its brisk wood-dried grapefruit rind bite. Bright orange-tangerine-pineapple tang and zesty lemon juicing regale mineral-watered twig-bark earthiness. Toasted caramel malting at bready yeast base tempers mild bittering.
SHORT’S KIND ALE
Mellow autumn harvested ‘wet-hop’ pale ale nestles brisk citric fruiting beside wood-grained earthiness, resinous hemp-oiled acridity and fresh-cut grass waft to lacquered pine finish. Vodka-like alcohol burn flourishes beneath mandarin orange, tangerine and grapefruit zest. Marijuana smokers will enjoy it alongside kind bud.
(DE PROEF) OMNIPOLLO MAZARIN
Elegant American-styled pale ale (with melting white candle on label) gypsy brewed by Stockholm, Sweden’s Omnipollo for Belgium’s De Proef. Bright fruited hop spicing picks up soft pine-needled grapefruit bittering to sourdough yeast bottom. Rose-watered mandarin orange, lemon zest, pineapple, nectar, peach, red apple and red grape illusions mesh well. Scrumptious.
MOA PALE ALE
Peculiarities abound for this American-styled pale ale from New Zealand. Unexpected herbaceous mineral graining takes the lead, bringing rye, alfalfa, barnyard and straw wheat earthiness to dry hop-oiled fruiting. Indigenous Nelson Sauvin hops bring white-wined sour grape, gooseberry and kiwi illusions to musty lemon-seeded bittering. Soft orange peel, passion fruit and peach undertones add depth to honeyed green tea finish.