Friday Night Tasting Lineup  

Julius Echter Hefe-Weizen Single 

4.9% ABV - The bright white head is creamy and tight. It maintains a solid surface covering to the end, and leaves very nice sheets of lace. The aroma is lightly fruity (with some green banana, apple, maybe berries) and sweetish with some light caramel. The body is light with a very fine and lightly effervescent carbonation becoming luxuriously creamy and smooth. It almost appears as if the body is fuller because of the creaminess. The flavor starts with some gently tangy malt and fruit; becomes sweeter and more malty with some banana as it crosses the palate; gives a light flourish of clove-like spice just before the swallow; some drying bitterness, a very light smoky phenolic and some gentle clove. Really nicely done! It's exceptionally well-balanced with a good amount of character and a great drinkability.  

Our Price: 3.57

Schneider Weisse Single 

5.4% ABV - Schneider Weisse pours a cloudy, darkish-orange body beneath massive head of frothy bright white foam that holds quite well and leaves some very nice lace about the glass. The nose is fruity and lightly tart with some green banana and mild clove in the background. The body is light-medium, and its crisp effervescence (from natural conditioning) gently bristles the tongue. The flavor is as expected for a Bavarian weizen, and starts with malt threaded-through with light clove flavors. It's more acidic and yeasty than some other examples, thus a little sharper. Some light hop flavor appears towards the swallow and then dissolves, leaving a mild note of green banana in the finish. One of the finest examples of the style.

Our Price: 4.97

Organic Pinkus Jubilate Single 

5.5% ABV - Appearance: Copper colored body. Generally clear. A short head of creamy 'antique-white' foam rises and then slowly dwindles. Decent lacing. Smell: Medium-dark caramel malt and light hops that are seemingly floral, herbal, and mildly grassy. Taste: Mildly sweet malt upfront reveals more of its caramel character as it warms across the palate. The more it warms the more the grainy character of the malt shows - very nice. The hops become apparent towards the swallow: floral, herbal, and mildly grassy (much easier to pick up than in the nose). The bitterness is balancing, and mainly low-key. It finishes with a dollop of golden syrup sweetness and a light touch of caramel that dries to reveal more residual hops.  

Our Price: 3.97

Trappistes Rochefort 6 Single 

7.5% ABV - Appearance: Pours a chestnut color. Smell: Toasted brown bread with a bit of fig jam; undertones of toffee and banana. Taste: Toffee and fruit, up front, with figs, sweet apples and bananas jutting to the fore; by mid-palate, a layer of spice and toasted brown bread emerges followed by the yeasty phenols that appear, after the swallow. Mouthfeel: Absolutely perfect, with a medium body lighted by a buoyant carbonation.

Our Price: 5.97

Avery Samaels Single 

16.45% ABV - Batch #5. - There is a lot of port-wine characteristics in this beer. Shy with the hops, this Barley Wine ascends the style in which it is characterized. Very sweet, syrupy looking right from the offset. With a deep mahogany hue and a stark white head, it promises intense sweetness and richness. Aromas of sweet brandy-like alcohols, swirled around toffee, caramel, vanilla, rum, and bourbon (I think it is the oak). Tastes even sweeter than is suggested by the aromas. A follow up of rum-soaken cherries, berries, maple syrup, and heavy, heavy malts. High fruit-cake flavors with the dehydrated old fruits and sugar drenched breads. This one is surely a sipper.  

Our Price: 9.57