Tarry dark-roast hop bittering, wood-seared blackstrap molasses gunk and nut-charred burnt coffee residue enjoin Bakers chocolate squalor for pungently robust wheated stout.
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TAYLOR BROOKE ARTFUL DODGER DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
Sprightly floral fruited entrance gains grassy hop astringency and dry wood tone for its spelt-flaked pilsner malt bottom. Zestful lemony grapefruit bittering, spritzy orange tang and salted pineapple piquancy neatly unite.
TAYLOR BROOKE YOU BET YOUR BIPPY HAZY INDIA PALE ALE
Rustic grain astringency brings dry earthen leathering to mellow yellow grapefruit and orange pith bittering as well as slightly sour passionfruit-gooseberry daubs above mildly spiced pale malt sugaring.
TAYLOR BROOKE KING T INDIA PALE ALE
Mineral grained toasted hop crisping saddles moderately bitter orange-peeled grapefruit continuance and distant apple-skinned grape stemming to the grassy pine stead of dry moderate-medium body.
TAYLOR BROOKE NO ROOM TO SWING A CAT INDIA PALE ALE
Dry hazy golden moderate-medium body lets stylish piney grapefruit bittering occupy mild oats-flaked pale malting. Candied lemon glaze, scurried orange rind musk and salted pineapple zesting gather at the finish.
TAYLOR BROOKE SHANTAY YOU STAY SOUR ALE WITH PEACH
Utilizing sourdough yeast thickens the peach-pureed tartness of vanilla-creamed kettle sour ale. Slightly acidic peach spritz acquires lemon-dropped pear and cider subtleties.
TAYLOR BROOKE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RED ALE
Dewy earthen mossing frontloads English brown ale-like cocoa-dried bittering, nut-roasted hop astringency and brown-leafed tobacco roast, drowning out its amber grain-sweetened red and orange fruited expectancy.
TAYLOR BROOKE BREWERY
WOODSTOCK, CONNECTICUT
A unique family-owned homestead featuring a full-scale brewery and winery, TAYLOR BROOKE BREWERY & WINERY occupies two separate farmhouses up a hill in the historic town of Woodstock.
Inside a maroon aluminum barn with towering brew tanks behind a wood top serving station, Taylor Brooke’s cement-floored main pub space placed community tables underneath glass-cylindered Edison lights and exposed pipes hanging from the high ceiling. A mezzanine area stations the original pilot system.
During March ’22 sojourn, my wife and I discovered nine TB brews and brought a few for the road (reviewed in Beer Index).
Locally grown flaked corn gave light lager, Height Of Luxury, its buttered popcorn pep as spritzy lemon fizz crackled beyond its wispily mossy vegetal souring.
Cocoa-dried Czech dark lager, Throes Of Winter, plied sedate honeyed nuttiness to woody Saaz hop astringency.
Vanilla creamed banana and clove sweetness draped bitter orange peel, grains of paradise tartness and white-peppered lemongrass herbage for Bulrush, a fulsome witbier with a sturdy sugared wheat base.
Easygoing Strawberry Milkshake IPA spread milk-sugared lactose all over mildly tart pureed strawberry, tangy ruby red grapefruit and tertiarily sour passionfruit-guava-kiwi tropicalia.
Mixed fermentation farmhouse ale, Woodstock Veraison, pushed brettanomyces acidity and sour wine yeast into apple-juiced petit Sirah, Frontenac and cayuga must plus dry plum whim. A mouth puckering sour saison.
Fermented on proprietary Corot Noir wine and lightened further by spelt-flaked pilsner malts, Harvest Berliner Weiss gained mild lemon souring, vinous red-green grape esters and briny pinot snips.
Another Harvest Berliner Weiss, influenced by Wild Fox Concord-like grapes and sumac, stayed sharply acidic as salty lemon tartness coalesced with tannic grape-plum dryness above earthen leathering.
Smooth dark-roast chocolate malting led lactic nitro milk stout, Stoggy Hollow, picking up molasses-sapped cinnamon bark resin and latent hazelnut, cola and macadamia illusions.
Creamy vanilla sweetness amplified Bigelow Hollow, letting black coffee-dried cocoa and black malt bittering reach the vanilla frontage above oats-flaked caramel malts and distant walnut-shelled pistachio and macadamia snips.