Blue Point Pale Ale: Light copper color, Great malt backbone with a nice green hop bitterness that lingers for minutes after swallowing. An exceptional Pale Ale in the hay day of IPAs. If you are a hop head, this is a Pale Ale that you need not steer clear of . . . A wonderful session ale with enough greeness to satisfy.
For lunch, I decided to order the Casa Salad: Leaf lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red onions, blue cheese crumbles and pepitas, dressed with Lime-Cilantro Vinaigrette, and a small order of wings with San Fran sauce.
San Fran sauce: honey, garlic, and red pepper. This is the best sauce Mad Mex offers in my opinion.
The beer I was pairing with these wings was a no brainer whenever I spotted it on tap: Great Divide Hades Ale.
Great Divide Hades Ale is golden in color, and has a wonderfully delicate malt nose with hints of spicy bitterness. A beautifully clean malty sweetness followed up, without hesitation, by a crisp spicy hop assertiveness that immediately leads to a wonderfully dry finish that leaves the body of the beer coating the inside of the mouth. An underrated beer from one of the best breweries I know.
As expected, the Great Divide Hades went extremely well with the Mad Mex San Fran Wild Wings. The malty sweetness of the Hades mixed well with the underlying honey in the San Fran sauce. When swallowed, the Hades' maltiness initially muted the spiciness of the San Fran sauce, then the hops immediately accentuated the garlic and red pepper of the San Fran sauce, leading new a beautiful mesh between the spiciness of each. A wonderful pairing!! Those who can think past a hoppy option, for the moment, will be rewarded with this pairing. Why pair spice with excessive hop bitterness, anyways?! It's like adding hot sauce to an already properly spiced dish.
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