King Moonracer
Parker's Hilltop Brewery

32 ounce crowler into snifter, filled on 3/3/2019. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, cherry, fig, date, red apple, red grape, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, wheat, toasted biscuit, and bread dough/crust; with lighter notes of nuttiness, roast, wood, herbal, floral, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity yeast, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge golden raisin, peach, plum, pear, apricot, cherry, fig, date, red apple, red grape, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, wheat, toasted biscuit, and bread dough/crust; with lighter notes of nuttiness, roast, wood, herbal, floral, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light pine, herbal, woody, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark fruit, peach, pear, apricot, cherry, red apple, red grape, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, wheat, toasted biscuit, bread dough/crust, nuttiness, roast, wood, herbal, floral, grass, pepper, pine, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying sweetness after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/grainy, and lightly slick/sticky mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 11% after the finish. Overall this is an awesome wheatwine! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity yeast, dark/bready malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Perfectly balanced fruity yeast and rich malts; with nice earthy hop presence/balance against sweetness. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example. Supposedly a hybrid of American/English styles, and they nailed it all around.