Straightforward pale ale with tangy orange, apple and pear fruiting picks up light floral perfuming and slight grassy hop astringency above pasty cereal-grained pale malts.
OVERSHORES RAINMAN PALE ALE
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GROOVE HEY PORTER… RYE RYE RYE
Demure rye malting just rich enough to anchor fudgy dark toffee and maple molasses sweetness contrasting hop-charred black chocolate bittering of bulky porter. Slight soy milking and black licorice onrush may seem offbeat, but ultimately, its sweet finish is not unlike a Sugar Daddy candy bar.
GROOVE MORN’N JOE BELGIAN STYLE BLONDE
In the can, dark roast coffee consumes front end of mocha-derived Belgian blonde. Its delicate pilsner-malted yellow fruit spicing maintains a fungi-cellared Belgian blonde influence, bringing lemon rind bittering (and mild limey pucker) to black coffee stead as espresso crema, dark chocolate and cafe latte remnants add to seductive java joust.
GROOVE KEEP IT CLEAN CREAM ALE
Easydrinking pale golden flatheaded cream ale with celery-watered crisping plies hop-dried grassy earthiness to champagne-dried green grape esters and mild herbage over rice-sugared white breaded pilsner malts.
GROOVE SCRANTON FRINGE ALE
Tidy red ale/ hazy IPA blend forwards straight-up lemony orange, apple and peach tanginess to mild grapefruit-peeled piney Chinook hops (of an IPA) with lightly spiced toasted amber graining (of a red ale).
GROOVE BROOKS DRIFT WHEAT ALE
Smooth easygoing pale wheat flagship lets cucumber-watered lemony orange rot and sparkling champagne effervescence merge atop white wheat spine for mild summertime refresher.
GROOVE GARDEN PARTY ’24 HONEY LEMON PILSNER
Briskly dry raw-honeyed lemon puree souring picks up tart orange oiling, green grape tannins, green mango salting and bitter lime peel splurge atop bready pilsner malt base of spritzy German-styled lemon-juiced summertime fun.
GROOVE BUB’S PILSNER
Dry Bohemian pilsner with musky grain husk, barnyard straw astringency and herbal hop earthiness given musty fungi dewiness as spritzy lemony orange Seltzer fizz and dark floral whims reach corn sugared bottom. Heady lil pils.
LASTING JOY MIGHTY STOUT
Rich pastry stout collab with Mighty Donuts sinks maple-glazed donut caking into dark roast chocolate malting, creamy bourbon vanilla midst and tarry espresso bittering, picking up latent black licorice, burnt caramel and sweet burgundy snips.
LASTING JOY SOPHOMORE SLUMP SOUR BLOND ALE
In the bottle, tart peach adjunct tucked into vinous white-wined green grape tannins and honey mead-like sweetness for oak-aged 2nd anniversary celebrator. In the backdrop, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigios illusions absorbed by mild whiskey malt tinge and given slight peppercorn pungency.
FIRESTONE WALKER NO ENDS, ONLY BEGINNINGS BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT (2022)
On tap at Taphouse 15, semi-sweet dark chocolate base given oak charred bourbon vanilla influence as ancillary black cherry, fig, raisin and plum illusions and distant molasses-draped creme brulee sweetness gather ’round humble ‘bourbonized’ burgundy, sherry and brandy wining.
8 WIRED RENDITION OF THE DEVIL GOLDEN STRONG ALE
Wonderful New Zealand-crafted Belgian strong blonde ale lets spritzy lemon sparkle prickle rum-spiced banana sweetness, botanical orange musk and buttery Chardonnay wining as fungi yeast herbage spreads thru vanilla creamed ginger, clove and coriander spicing. Dainty on the tongue yet understatedly intense. A perfect Belgian styled rendition from Down Under.
