Buttery French blonde brings earthen-grained white wine entry to streamlined malt-spiced sweetness and eclipsed floral bouquet. Although meshed well, distinction lacks as yellow grape finish slacks off to relative blandness.
Hazy yellow-orange medium body with yeasty viscosity yields salient honey-dipped banana fizz outlining clove-coriander hem and prudent nectarine-apricot tang. Mighty citric hop zest and moderate herbal notch add further resiliency.
Well-hidden 10% alcohol rigidity disguised by moderate banana-clove responsiveness and white-wined yellow grape tartness. Dandelion, elderberry, and rose pedal sop up caramelized candy yeast sinew. But buttered popcorn finish reduced to sourly diacetyl tepidity.
Rich golden dry-hopped ‘Kolsch’-style ale finds strong wheat fiber, tart green apple sourness, and unripe apricot-lemon twang usurped by peculiar rustic barley persistence underscored by faint chocolate sulk. Sticky fruit tang not as prevalent as Spring class may suggest.
Clear orange-yellowed ivory-headed moderate body brings white wine grape essence to grassy-hopped citrus spell and doughy backdrop. Lemon-candied apple-peach tartness helps put a lively pep on the tongue.
Clover honey fermentation and spry hop bitterness counter toasted barley-oats serenade to smooth finish, but tobacco-leafed lemon and nectar illusions hidden too far below surface. Brewery defunct: 2006.
Herbal nose and perfumed floral-hopped tongue invade hemp-daubed, billowy white-headed, hazy golden ale (leaving chunky Brussels lace on glass). Dirty mineral earthiness lingers below wheat wafer distention and sugared citrus dalliance.