On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, streamlined Citra-Mosaic-hopped tropical fruiting promotes zesty orange-peeled grapefruit bittering but unwanted waxy claying penetrates papery oated wheat malting.
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PHASE THREE DDH PROTOCOL DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, frothily vanilla creamed hazy golden beige NEIPA lets salted yellow grapefruit tanginess, lemon curd tartness, spritzy orange oiling and green grape tannins stabilize in lactic yogurt-soured setting.
TOMS RIVER BOOTS ON THE GROUND INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, gleaming NEIPA plies lightly embittered grapefruit-peeled pineapple zesting, peachy mango-guava-papaya tang and mildly lemon-soured passionfruit, green grape, lychee and dragonfruit tartness to heavily oated wheat base. Spritzy tropical fruiting latently receives salty pine-hopped floral daubs.
FOAM DISTOPIAN DREAM GIRL
On tap at Growler & Gill, slightly offbeat NEIPA prods zesty lemony grapefruit bittering, subtle white-wined green grape souring and orange sorbet tartness with white peppered herbage and floral lavender perfuming over musky dry grain base.
VEIL ORANGE FERRARI DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, robust golden-hazed NEIPA pushes waxy orange-peeled pineapple tang, lemon-wedged grapefruit rind bittering and sour guava-gooseberry rasp thru yogurt-thick lactose base, leaving mild herbal pining upon crayon-like tropical fruit lacquering.
STONE 26TH ANNIVERSARY IMPERIAL IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, divergent hopped-up West Coast IPA (with unassuming 9.7% ABV) stays dry as dank pine resin seeps into dehydrated grapefruit-mango conflux, raw-honeyed orange blossom musk, dark floral mustiness and mild black peppering. More abstruse than complex.
STONE RUINTEN TRIPLE IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, ‘recklessly hoppy recipe’ celebrates 10 year anniversary of fabulous Ruination. But its muskily citric Centennial-Citra hop blend and the original’s piney floral perfuming are lacking. Instead, its candied orange stead never overcomes the iodine-stiffened boozy ethers.
MAGNIFY VI (6TH ANNIVERSARY IMPERIAL IPA)
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, 6th anniversary IPA floats bold 8.5% alcohol ethers thru clean cryo-hopped tropical fruit lacquering and mildly creamed vanilla froth. Lemony pineapple zesting, tannic green grape souring, limey bergamot orange tartness and fuzzy peach tang gain floral sweetness to contrast earthen pine whim.
SWEETWATER 420 IMPERIAL IPA
Original 420 given bolder intensity. Sugary mango, peach and pineapple tanginess outdoes orange-peeled grapefruit zesting (and syrupy pear snip plus tangerine-clementine tease) as grassy-hopped astringency and resinous pine stabilize above contrasting honeyed wheat base.
THREE FLOYDS CAT DATE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, despite mass acclaim, intensely bitter and brusquely dry Imperial IPA’s somewhat harsh aggression seems off-putting. Musky orange-oiled grapefruit pith bittering gains fungi musting and tannic blackcurrant phenols.
FROST LUSH DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, lovely easygoing moderation with muted grapefruit-peeled orange, peach, pineapple, mango and tangerine tanginess providing just enough sunshine for spruce-tipped pine resin and oily cannabis herbage above delicate pale malt sugaring.
GOOSE ISLAND SECRET BEER HUG HAZY IPA
Sessionable hazy golden NEIPA retains lightly embittered orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and passionfruit tang as well as mild mango-salted guava, papaya and gooseberry souring above biscuity bread crusted base.
