Christmas-spiced version of exuberant stout throws brown-sugared dry spicing into the creamily frothed dark chocolate midst, leaving vanilla-daubed nutmeg, ginger, star anise, cinnamon and coconut illusions to contrast less prominent nut charred bittering.
Verstatile Mexican stout with fluffy tan head rising above its mahogany body lets toasted coconut sugaring tease the creamily vanilla-daubed black chocolate surface and wintry cayenne-peppered nutmeg, cinnamon and cumin seasoning. Light caramel-burnt maple sapping and slight gingerbread snap counter nut-charred cocoa powdering beneath.
Restricted dark candi-syruped burnt caramel adjunct washed out as light maple molasses sweetness falters alongside distant fig, chestnut and acorn illusions dulled further by dreary apple-skinned orange musk.
Rich rummy ethanol boozing penetrates white-peppered Belgian yeast funk (reminiscent of Orval/ Saison Dupont) plugged into vodka-smoothed, Cryo-hopped tropical fruiting. Juicy pineapple, zesty lemon, tangy orange, pink grapefruit, mango and cherry burst forth as mild floral spicing and slight wood tones reach honeyed wheat base.
Tangy orange peel adjunct stays bittersweet above doughy baguette base, picking up mildly spiced grapefruit-pineapple wisps and phenol hop astringency before fading at the dry finish.
Zesty tropical fruited ‘hoppy’ pale ale stays sessionable as mild pine resin soaks up sharply dry pineapple, grapefruit and orange rind bittering and peachy mango tang, leaving phenol hop astringency to contrast its daintily spiced crystal sugaring.
OK Mexican-styled pale lager brings lightly salted corn chipped spelt graining to the fore as lightly creamed Scotch malting soothes lemon-sugared herbal nips.
Easygoing yellow-cleared cumulous-headed blonde provides spry yellow grapefruit-seeded lemon spritz and wispy lime zesting for grassy hop stead over caramelized pale malt spicing. Crisply clean sedation.
Sweet peated malts and earthen truffle dewing secure mild nutty dried fruiting of wee heavy Scotch ale. Desiccated orange, fig and date ride alongside sweet butternut-chestnut conflux and herbal tea respite above cereal-grained Golden Promise barley malting.
Slightly offbeat IPA relies on pasty Bavarian malt spicing and earthen Noble hops to engage caramelized dried fruiting (pear-apricot-fig), leaving dryer-than-expected grapefruit and orange influence and resinous pine tones in the lurch. Rich German IPA at Christmastime anyone?
Bright mango salted bittering outdoes any sweet tropical fruited influence as brisk lemony orange-peeled yellow grapefruit zesting and mild passionfruit-guava souring reach dry piney bottom. Could use sturdier mango thrust at the sharp citric-spiced finish.
Mild Mosiac-hopped lemony orange-grapefruit tang turns dry as pasty pale malt sugaring brings gluey paper starching to floral-daubed pine resin.
