Drab Belgian pale ale allows carbolic fizz to undermine yellow-fruited spicing and butterscotch malting, depleting its honeyed wheat base. Lemony yellow grapefruit tartness contrasts sweet banana-bruised vanilla creaming. Mild saffron-honeysuckle spicing engulfs ancillary green grape tannins. Nowhere near as ghoulish as its blood-sucking imagery would suggest.
Supposedly Belgium’s best selling beer, this sessionable pale lager maintains a thrifty flavor profile but lacks overall oomph. Indistinct Belgian yeast candi-sugaring affects sugary corn cereal frontage, allowing phenol hop acridity as well as barnyard-dried alfalfa, wild oats and rye graining to overrun soft sourdough spine. Faux gluten-free aridity depletes scurried sweetness.
On tap at Redlight Redlight, ultra-dry saison-like yellow fruiting gains substantial sourness from astringent farmhouse-wafted brettanomyces funk. Zesty lemon spritz, juicy yellow grapefruit tartness and desiccated tangerine-apricot rot regale light grassy-hopped bittering. Herbaceous peppercorn-basil-rosemary seasoning, leathery horseblanket acridity and musty vegetal snip add rustic backdrop.
A bit complacent for a Belgian-styled pale ale, though mild hop-spiced lemon zestiness retains brisk crisping. Herbal lemongrass snip and passive clove dusting fade at sourdough-breaded baguette bottom.
On tap at Tap & Grind, mellow light-bodied Belgian blonde ale provides soft habanero-like Muscadine peppering to mild peppercorn herbage and sedate citric-hopped frisk. An easygoing hybrid with just the right amount of peppery accents for blue collar imbibers and veteran beer geeks alike.
Brewed by Thomas Creek for Inlet, musty-fruited moderation utilizes candi-sugared Belgian yeast for underwhelming and ill-defined singel-amber merger. Murky prune-dried banana bruise and estery grape-stemmed white wining reach tart midst. Moldy fruit rotted core desiccates negligible spiced nuttiness.
On tap at Beer Authority, mellow Imperial White Ale (a.k.a. Weiss Teufel) softly layers lemony yellow-caked vanilla and cane-sugared bruised banana sweetness over delicate white wheat spine. Banana bread, banana liqueur and banana daiquiri nuances dance across the tongue alongside subtle peach, apricot and nectarine whims.
Piquant lemon-seeded souring fronts dry Belgian-styled blonde ale. Sour-candied grapefruit tartness, white-peppered lemongrass oiling and herbal-nipped plantain smidgen contrast farmhouse-like barnyard, hay and wheat-grass rusticity at the backend. A casual session ale for lightweights.
Ever-evolving recipe takes on easygoing citric-spiced Belgian single styling for 2013. Fungi-like white-peppered yeast funk affects brisk lemon-soured orange zest and tea-leafed lemon verbena spicing above biscuity rye-malted spine. Crystalline mineral water crisping provides clean backdrop to mellow yellow-fruited moderation.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, kitschy gold-hazed moderation stuffs brewers’ wild bearded yeast into soft white-peppered citric zest and vanilla-spiced banana, clove and bubblegum respite. Floral coriander-cardamom sweetens herbal lemon tartness beneath.
On tap at Lazy Boy Saloon, outrageously hybridized pumpkin-spiced medium body in the guise of a boozy Belgian pale ale melts like butter in your mouth. Black-peppered Belgian yeast spicing inundates honeyed banana daiquiri rum spicing above earthen gourd dewiness and pale-malted barley crisping. Ethereal pastry-caked pumpkin pie niche, gentle allspice-ginger-nutmeg-cardamom-coriander seasoning and sweet vanilla creaming register below resilient alcohol whir.
Vapid summertime moderation with negligible orange-peeled hibiscus influence and musty phenol spicing fails to make proper impact. Bland cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg illusions drape weak caramel malting. Pallid Belgian yeast strain is insufficient and ill-defined, lacking peppery citric resolve.
