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FREE WILL BREWING – LAHASKA

LAHASKA, PENNSYLVANIA

In the storybook town of Lahaska at Peddlers Village, FREE WILL BREWING set up a nifty taproom October 2016 – four years after its initial facility opened January ’12. Its white-marbled tile floor contrasts the bar area’s tin-foiled brown ceiling tiles and the white book shelving adds to the quaint charm.

A small serving station with twelve taps supplies the wood tables and private mirrored side room. A front deck overlooks Peddlers Village.

My wife and I grab seats at the green back window to engage in a confectionery nightcap while enjoying the Winter Lights & Ice Sculpture show on a cold Saturday evening, January ’25.

Wintry Snowdrift Mint Chocolate Stout certainly delivered the goods as refreshingly sharp green mint menthol leafing surged alongside chewy dark chocolate richness, perfectly emulating a Junior Mint or Peppermint Patty candy bar.

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.

FREE WILL BROWN BEARD RUM OAK BARREL-AGED IMPERIAL BROWN ALE

Elegant oak-aged brown ale successfully expands upon Free Will’s Coffee Oatmeal Brown Ale with yummy rum dousing. Rich tawny-browned full body adds coffee beans to molasses and cane sugar while aging in Caribbean rum barrels. Mellow spiced rum warmth serenely sweetens persuasive dark-roast coffee overtones and polite whiskey snip. Ancillary black chocolate, dark cocoa and pina colada illusions swing by the molasses-sapped oats spine of rummy dessert treat.

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FREE WILL THE KRAGLE IPA

On tap at Poor Henry’s, “assertive West Coast India Pale Ale” allows tangy grapefruit-pineapple-orange-mango glisten to gain affluence above resinous piney bitterness and mineral-grained pale malting. Lemon zest brightens floral-spiced sweetness. Brisk citra hops framed by carbolic Seltzer-like fizz. In the can, pristinely clean-watered “assertive hop-forward” barrage brings juicy orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, mango and peach tang as well as zesty lemon licks to sticky hemp-oiled hop pungency above mild rye breaded spine. Lingered citric acidity recedes as pine-combed bark dryness and floral accents increase.

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