On Tap Bitterness May Be Present
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What’s your style? Amber: Amber to coppery-brown in color and usually clear. Medium to high hop and malt flavors. The malts may be sweet, often with a caramel flavor. Malts and hops usually well balanced. Somewhat similar to American pale ales with more body, caramel richness, and a balance more towards malt than hops Bière de Garde: Golden to light brown in color. Toasted malt aroma, slight malt sweetness in flavor, and medium hop bitterness. Hop aromas and flavors should be low to medium. Fruity esters can be light to medium in intensity Brown: Moderate to high malt character with flavors that can include caramel, chocolate, toffee, nuts, and biscuit. Malts tend to have moderate sweetness. Hop flavor can be very low to moderate and On Tap bitterness may be present. Dubbel: Dark amber-brown beers with a lot of rich, roasted malt flavors. Ratings via RateBeer and BeerAdvocate They can be somewhat spicy and with fruity characteristics (scored out of 100) Gose: Pronounced “GOH-zuh”, is an unfiltered wheat beer. Dominant Ballast Point Sculpin - (7%) San Diego, CA flavors include a tartness, an herbal characteristic, and a strong saltiness Sculpin IPA is bright with aromas of apricot, peach, mango and lemon. Its Hefeweizen: Unfiltered German wheat beer that is pale straw to dark lighter body also brings out the crispness of the gold in color. They have banana and clove esters that come from special hops. ***** RateBeer 100, BeerAdvocate 97 yeast. They can optionally have a vanilla and/or bubblegum flavor, and IPA - (5oz - $2.5, 12oz - $5.5) are accompanied by a bready wheat taste. Hop taste and bitterness are very low. D9 Brewing Viking Fraoch - (5.0%) Cornelius, NC IPA: Color is golden amber to light copper, usually with an orange tint. Spontaneous sour with a rich brown hue, balanced tartness and hint of Malts are used to balance the hops and may have a mild sweet flavor heather flowers. Caramel, bold tartness and ripe stone fruit give way to in American varieties. In English versions, malts may have a biscuity or lingering flowers and clean, crisp mouthfeel toasty flavor Sour/Wild Ale - (5oz - $2.75, 12oz - $6.5) Lager: American lager has little in the way of hop and malt character. A Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager - (4.9%) Roseland, VA straw to gold color, very clean and crisp, highly carbonated Pale bronze beer is medium in body with intense hop flavor and aroma. Pale Ale: Pale golden to deep amber in color and usually clear. Brewed in the style of the “west coast” with robust hop character coming Moderate to high hop flavor, often showing a citrusy hop character. Low from American grown varieties of hops to medium-high clean malt character (not sweet) which may be bready, Lager - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5.5) toasty, biscuity. The balance is typically towards the late hops and bitterness, but the malt presence can be substantial Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale - (7.2%) Milton, DE Porter: Porters are light brown to dark brown in color, often with a ruby The beer has characteristics of each style that inspired it: the color of an tint. The flavor has a moderate roasted malt taste which usually includes American Brown, the caramel notes of a Scotch Ale, and the hopping bitter chocolate, but often has coffee or licorice flavors as well. Hop regiment of an India Pale Ale - *****RateBeer 98, BeerAdvocate 92 flavor is usually non-existant Brown Ale - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5.5) Quad: Deep reddish-brown in color with a robust malty flavor profile and upwards of 10% alcohol by volume Foothills Jade IPA - (7.4%) Winston Salem, NC Bold, citrusy Pacific Jade hops lend striking tropical fruit Stout: Darkest beers, from deep brown to black, with dark roasted malt notes and a hint of peppery finish to this flavors and aromas emphasizing chocolate, coffee and sometimes even molasses. Sweetness ranges from extremely dry (Irish dry stouts) to easy-drinking IPA - ***** RateBeer 97, BeerAdvocate 95 sweet (English milk stouts). IPA - (5oz - $2, 16oz - $6) Tripel: Big dense beers. They’re usually golden in color with notes of Foothills Seeing Double - (9.3%) Winston Salem, NC spice, fruit, and honey, and are often a bit more bitter than typical of A dense blend of base malts with massive additions of Cascade hops and Belgian ales to balance out all the malts a Chinook dry-hopping results in an intense flavor profile that’s citrusy with Witbier: “White beers” are pale straw to light gold color and are cloudy. heavy notes of pine - ***** RateBeer 99, BeerAdvocate 91 Taste tends toward the sweet side with orange peel/orange citrus and Double/Imperial IPA - (5oz - $3, 12oz - $6) spice (usually coriander) flavors. Other spices may be present. Hop presence and flavor is very low Highland Gaelic Ale - (5.6%) Asheville, NC Deep amber-colored, featuring a rich malty body. Cascade and Willamette hops add a complex hop flavor and aroma. Exceptionally balanced between malty sweetness and delicate hop bitterness Amber/Red Ale - (5oz - $1.5, 16oz - $4.5) Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Capt. James Jack Pilsner - (4.8%) Charlotte, NC Highland Oatmeal Porter - (5.9%) Asheville, NC A classic northern German “Pils”, this straw-colored lager is smooth, with a Robust beer is black in color, very malty with hints of chocolate-roasted subtle yet assertive hoppiness that doesn’t overwhelm your palate or the flavor and a well balanced hop character -***** RateBeer 90 beer’s malt backbone Porter - (5oz - $1.5, 16oz - $4.5) Pilsner - (5oz - $1.5, 16oz - $4.5) Jack-O Traveler Shandy - (4.4%) Burlington, VT Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Copper Ale - (4.8%) Charlotte, NC Alluring wheat beer illuminated by the tastes of fall that strikes a perfect The aroma is toasty and nutty with a mild and pleasant measure of balance between bright refreshment and seasonal spice. Jack-O is brewed graininess. The flavor is rich and malty, but also carefully hopped. with fresh pumpkin, for a delicious dark-hued, Shandy-inspired beer. Crisp, malty, bittersweet finish. -***** BeerAdvocate 90 Pumpkin Ale - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5.25) Altbier - (5oz - $1.5, 16oz - $4.5) Left Hand Milk Stout - (6%) Longmont, CO *** NITRO *** Red Oak - (5%) Whitsett, NC Dark & delicious, aroma is of brown sugar and vanilla cream, with hints Light caramel malt aroma, and pours a darker orange color. Taste is malty of roasted coffee. Taste of roasty, mocha flavors rise up, with slight hop & and sweet with a mild bitterness. A local favorite! roast bitterness in the finish. The rest is pure bliss of Amber/Red Lager - (5oz - $1.5, 16oz - $4.5) milk chocolate fullness. - ***** RateBeer 95, BeerAdvocate 91 Milk Stout - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5.5) Southern Tier Warlock - (10%) Lakewood, NY Dark and mysterious, Warlock is serious about high gravity. Reanimate Olde Hickory’s Hickory Stick Stout - (5.8%) Hickory, NC your senses with it’s huge roasted malt character, moderate carbonation Hickory Stick Stout is a whole-lot-a beer full of malt. English pale and and spicy pumpkin pie aroma - ***** RateBeer 96 crystal malts start this beer quickly followed by big time chocolate and Imperial Pumpkin Stout - (5oz - $3, 12oz - $7.5) black patent malts. A very robust stout, bursting with flavor! Stout - (5oz - $2.5, 16oz - $5.75) Sugar Creek Biére de Garde - (6.8%) Charlotte, NC Traditional artisanal ale from Northern France that is a malt-forward amber Olde Hickory Table Rock Pale Ale - (5.5%) Hickory, NC with deep hints of caramel and candied apple. A smooth and drinkable ale Deep copper color with lively floral aroma. Ale qualities come right out reminiscent of a lager but with full flavored ale fruitiness with some fruitiness and faint esters, and malty good foundation of bready Bière de Garde - (5oz - $2, 12oz - $5) and biscuity flavor. Pale Ale - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5.25) Continued Sugar Creek Dubbel - (7.6%) Charlotte, NC 2015 U.S. Open Beer Championship Silver Medal Beer. Plum, raisin, spice, banana, clove, chocolate, brown sugar, and cherry can all be found in a Bottles single tasting! A hint of earthy spiciness with a sweet lingering caramel tone precedes a pleasantly warm alcoholic finish Lager & Pilsner Dubbel - (5oz - $2, 12oz - $5) Bud Light . Lager . .4.2% . 12 oz . $3 Budweiser . Lager . 5% . 12 oz . $3 Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier - (5.4%) Germany Coors Light. Lager . .4.2% . 12 oz . $3 Golden-yellow wheat beer, with its fine-poured white foam, smells of Corona Extra . Lager . .4.6% . 12 oz . $3.25 cloves and impresses consumers with its refreshing Corona Light . Lager . 4.1% . 12 oz . $3.25 banana flavour. It is full bodied and with a smooth Michelob Ultra . Lager . .4.2% . 12 oz . $3 yeast taste - ***** RateBeer 99, BeerAdvocate 98 Miller Lite . Lager . .4.2% . 12 oz . $3 Hefeweizen - (5oz - $1.75, 16oz - $5) Yuengling. Lager . .4.4% . 12 oz . $3 Foothills Torch Pilsner . Pilsner . .5.3% . 12 oz . $4 Wicked Weed Freak Of Nature - (8.6%) Asheville, NC Wheat Freak of Nature Double IPA is their hoppiest ale. The focus of this beer was Blue Moon . .Witbier . .5.4% . 12 oz . $3.75 to create a hop delivery vehicle. The resulting blend of dank and citrus Catawba White Zombie . Witbier . 4.7% . 12 oz can . $4 forward hops make for a palate changing experience. Hopheads, rejoice. - Lonerider Shotgun Betty . .Witbier . .5.8% . 12 oz can . $3.75 ***** RateBeer 99, BeerAdvocate 94 Natty Greene’s Wildflower Wit . Witbier . .4.5% . 12 oz . $3.75 Double IPA - (5oz - $2.5, 12oz - $6) Pale & IPA Wicked Weed IncORANGEible - (6.2%) Asheville, NC Highland St.