Decadent oak-aged stout with lovely bourbon vanilla spicing and maple molasses sugaring lacing dark chocolate syruping countered by dry rye whiskey tones and dark roast hop char.
BACK MOUNTAIN SOMETHING IN THE DARK BOURBON IMPERIAL STOUT
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BACK MOUNTAIN RYE WHISKEY BARREL AGED OLD ALE
Rye whiskey barrel aging gains chocolate-laden Scotch licks, caramel candied sweetness and dewy dextrin malting for spirits-inspired limited edition 10% ABV “old ale.” Sturdy dry rye stead anchors cara-pils specialty graining.
8 WIRED SNAKE CHARMER 2017 BARREL AGED SOUR W/ BLACKCURRANT
Blackcurrant-consumed 2017 ‘wild ale’ aged in wine barrels lets oaken vanilla and mossy brettanomyces yeast funk overcome wafting ammonia acidity and seep into blackcurrant tartness. Sour raspberry, cranberry and cherry respite beckons.
FREE WILL 2024 ELLE REVE APPLE BRANDY BARREL AGED QUAD
Caramel apple-glazed brandy entry greets beet-sugared dark fruiting and cellared fungi musk of a Belgian quad as bourbonized molasses drapes fig, date, raisin and dark cherry pleasantries soaking into cognac-sweetened vanilla midst. Perfect brandywine-barreled nightcap.
FREE WILL FIRMLY ROOTED W/ SPRUCE TIPS
Offbeat sour saison peculiarity aged on oak with spruce tips (!) utilizes mixed culture brettanomyces yeast funk to add ammonia strength to dry lemon-limed parch, champagne sparkle and ambitious herbal spiced foraging underscored by acidulated wheat. Minty spruce tips amplify zesty lemony white wining as capacious pink peppercorn, fern, thyme, fennel, tarragon, dill, cardamom and mustard seed illusions penetrate musky mineralized rusticity.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN PLUM AWAKENING
On tap at Plank Pizza, plum dumpling-implied pastry sour lets salted plum entry gain light vanilla-creamed cinnamon spicing and floury brown-sugaring relegating stylish acidulated melanoidin malts.
STONY CREEK DOUBLE RUFFLED DOUBLE IPA
Dried orange and apricot tartness plus peachy pineapple tanginess stay the course above pasty caramel-salted honeyed oats spine.
CHECKERSPOT ROBE LIFE DOUBLE IPA
Zestful lemony yellow grapefruit entry sparks orange-peeled sweetness and peachy mango-tangerine tang of fruited vodka-like 8.3% ABV Imperial IPA. Light pine resin underscores voluptuous tropical fruiting, picking up slight candy-coated tartness.
SMART ORGANIC IPA
Using organic barley-hops, Smart Beer became New York’s first organic brewery in 2016. Closer to a Brit-styled IPA with its dewy mossing and cellared fungi musk overtaking any bitter piney grapefruit expectancy – yet surprisingly diverting to dried-fruited raisin, prune and apricot sweetness. Molasses-honeyed sorghum syruping seems to coat the cocoa powdered bottom. A decent changeup.
LEFT HAND NITRO BELGIAN WHITE
On tap at Ambulance, smooth nitro-infused witbier retains softly frothed eclair creaminess for delicate orange-peeled coriander sweetness and tart lemon zip given mild celery-watered fungi musk that fades above placid pilsner-malted acidulated wheat.
LIQUID STATE YARD LION HEFEWEIZEN
Effervescent lemon spritz leaves banana-clove-bubblegum sweetness in the midst as white grape esters enter the easygoing summertime fray. Honeyed white wheat spine tingled.
HANGING HILLS MAILTRUCK PALE ALE
Orange-rotted lemon lime spunk contrasts rummy pineapple-candied tangerine sweetness above peaty compost soiling. At the dry finish, raspy citrus hop spicing flows.
