Vibrant soft-toned pale golden NEIPA placates spicy orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, peach and cherry tang with slightly soured white grape, gooseberry and guava tartness caressing mild pine resin above dainty caramel malting.
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GOOSE ISLAND TROPICAL BEER HUG IMPERIAL IPA
Sturdily booze-doused 9.9% ABV DDH IIPA brightens orange-peeled mango, peach and pineapple tang with lemony yellow grapefruit sunshine as mild gooseberry-guava souring settles softly. Vodka-licked citrus continuance gains resinous piney hop lacquering and muted herbage over biscuity pilsner malt base.
GOOSE ISLAND NEON BEER HUG IPA
Crushable straw yellowed West Coast-styled IPA with “10,000 volts of flavor” lets vanilla cream frothing soak up mellow yellow grapefruit and orange rind bittering plus floral-spiced mango, pineapple, passionfruit and papaya tang as piney hop resin adds slight coniferous whim backed by dry pale malts.
TEN BENDS CREAM PUFF WAR PEACH DOUBLE IPA
Robust milkshake IPA with lactic-soured vanilla creaming places tangy peach puree adjunct alongside orange-peeled yellow grapefruit zesting and spicy pineapple-mango-papaya juicing above pasty honeyed pale malting. Cling peach syruping absorbed by brisk citrus continuance and latent evergreen minting. On tap, exotic peaches ‘n cream Milkshake IPA with lactic milk sugaring retains honey-malted vanilla swagger and juicy nectar fruiting to contrast yogurt-like passionfruit-pineapple-guava souring. Peach puree adjunct slowly gains subtle raspberry, strawberry, mango, tangerine and clementine tang.
TWIN ELEPHANT LIL SHIMMY YE: ORANGE TANGERINE & VANILLA BEAN MILKSHAKE PALE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, lactic double dry-hopped Lil Shimmy Ye milkshake variant brings milk-sugared vanilla creaming to spritzy orange-juiced tangerine and clementine tanginess for lollipop-like Creamsicle dessert. Brisk Citra-Mosaic-Belma hop deliverance allows bittersweet citric aspect to gain pineapple, mango and guava juicing as well as recessive gooseberry-passionfruit souring.
EBBS IPA NO. 1
Juicily lemon-limed orange peel and yellow grapefruit tang gains sugared candy twang as soft resinous pine tones linger delicately for endearingly easygoing moderation.
ALEWIFE MAIBOCK
On tap at Capitol Craft – East Hanover, mild floral-spiced citrus and berry fruiting pick up wispy herbal perfuming over dewy pilsner malt sweetness. Understated, but not unassuming, springtime flavor profile.
WET TICKET TASTES LIKE THE TROPICS MANGO WHEAT ALE
On tap at Capitol Craft – East Hanover, tangy mango juicing picks up soapy watermelon rind earthiness, oaken cherry esters and waxy citrus snips above honeyed wheat bed.
SCHILLING ADEM BELGIAN-STYLE WITBIER
On tap at Taphouse 15, so-called traditional witbier diverts stylistic orange-peeled coriander sweetness for deeper herbal perfuming, dryer barnyard hay astringency, sporadic peppercorn influence and recessive banana-plantain conflux.
EBBS KOLSCH NO. 2
Dry lemon musk, sweetly soured apple scruff and mild Perle hopped floral herbage condensed over sourdough-daubed honeyed Vienna malt base of straightforward kolsch.
EBBS LAGER NO. 1
Brusque German lager with grain breaded pilsner malting anchoring lemon-dried grapefruit tartness, hay-like straw wheat astringency and raw-honeyed floral herbage. Mannered, simple and underwhelmingly satisfying.
SINGLECUT FREQUENCY RUSTIC LAGER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, ‘nuanced, classic and simple’ German-styled lager brings musky lemon souring, grassy Noble hop herbage and mild floral spicing to fresh-baked French breading. Raw grained rusticity emboldens its bottom end.
