Brewed in conjunction with Pittsburgh Penguins hockey legend, Phil Bourque, musky cologne-perfumed orange oiling dampens bitter grapefruit rind prominence and pine-lacquered herbal snip.
Tag Archives: NORTH COUNTRY BREWERY
NORTH COUNTRY THANKS DAAAN BELGIAN WHEAT
Named after Pittsburgh Penguins hockey sportscaster, Dan Potash, underwhelming soft-toned witbier needs mildly perfume-spiced orange peel tartness and latent white peppering to register more firmly above subdued dried wheat murk.
NORTH COUNTRY STATION 33 FIREHOUSE RED
On tap at Bonnie & Clyde Pub, middling Irish Red Ale regales tea-like earthiness, tobacco-roasted peat mossing and slight fungi mustiness with musky apple-pear illusions.
NORTH COUNTRY BREWERY
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
One of the best brewpubs in Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock’s sterling Western-styled hunting lodge, NORTH COUNTRY BREWERY (visited during April ‘06 West Penn jaunt), had an earthen hippie atmosphere underscored by ramped left side bar, rustic wood floors, cozy dining coves, low ceiling fans, and bark-sidled walls.
Basic sandwiches, burgers, and salads were organically prepared. Right side front-windowed brew tanks contained basic fare and amazing rotational seasonal selections.
Sharply hop-spiced, orange-peeled, grapefruit embittered, peach-tangy, currant-bitten Paleo IPA was unbeatable while incredible Belgian Nightmare Tripel saturated bruised orange, overripe banana, and loud cherry with malt-syrupy alcohol whir.
Cask-conditioned Bucksnort Stout had rigid black licorice frontage, coffee-roasted beam, cocoa bean spleen, and soft black cherry seam, countering stylistically similar black coffee-soured, barley-roasted, walnut-tinged, tar-like Stone House Stout.
Wheat-cracked blackberry-raspberry-tart Fruit Bowl, yellow-fruited tea-hinged rye-tinged Paddlers Pale Ale, tea-honeyed fig-date-backed The Other One Strong Ale, and Irish-styled tea-stained fig-sugared pear-hinted Station 33 Red proved admirable, though raw dry-hopped maize-addled wheat-chaffed Worth Your Weight In Gold stayed dismally phenol.