Understated milk-sugared coffee, white chocolate and vanilla icing pick up fizzy lemon spritz mired a tad by phenol aridity. Needs creamier thrust for advertised mochaccino-enriched cafe latte splendor.
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SHIP BOTTOM THE LOCAL STOUT
Creamy tan-headed full body offers milk-sugared New Guinean coffee, dark chocolate syruping and passive almond buttering to peaty oatmeal base, leaving mild hop-charred astringency on the sturdy mocha finish.
SHIP BOTTOM COCONUT PORTER
English-styled porter conditioned on milk-sugared cocoa nibs and toasted coconut picks up creamed coffee and vanilla niceties, sinewy black chocolate syruping, timid cola nuttiness and iced tea reminder. But its phenol acridity knocks back the advertised German chocolate cake expectancy.
ALEMENTARY TOP SECRET PROJECT 19.1 BARLEYWINE
Manhattan cocktail-inspired 6th anniversary barleywine retains light whiskeyed vermouth and dry burgundy mildewing above mild chocolate-spiced rye malting. Pliant purple grape esters, skin and stem evoke muscat wining in dewy midst.
BURLEY OAK BLUEBERRY BANANA COCONUT J.R.E.A.M.
On tap at Ambulance, creamily lactose-heavy Smoothie loads pureed blueberry-banana tartness and toasted coconut shavings upon chewy marshmallow fluff for rich yogurt-milked pastry treat.
HUDSON VALLEY BLOOM
On tap at Ambulance, lactic sour IPA lets milk sugared oats flaking settle below zesty Citra-hopped lemon acidity, oaken cherry tartness and subtle vanilla tannins. Delicate truffle-bound chocolate malting, wispy strawberry-raspberry rhubarb piquancy and timid chamomile tea snips flutter.
SHIP BOTTOM BOMB POP SOUR ALE
Exacting popsicle-inspired sour ale plies lemonade sugaring to candied Sweet-Tart powdering. Spritzy lemon-limed raspberry souring hides wispy floral-perfumed piquancy. Classic frozen beverage flawlessly re-created.
ROGUE BATSQUATCH HAZY INDIA PALE ALE
Bold NEIPA lets zesty orange-peeled grapefruit zing surge beyond salt-licked piney hop bittering as well as vodka-licked peach, mango and pineapple auxiliary above gluey cardboard-tinged oated wheat flaking. Up-front tropical fruiting sweetened by creamy vanilla froth.
ROGUE GUMBEROO WEST COAST INDIA PALE ALE
Sharply embittered golden bronze hazed West Coast-style IPA forwards grapefruit-peeled orange pith bite, sour lemon splurge and mild spicing to lingering spruce-tipped piney hop bitterness. Proprietary Pac-Man yeast strain affords pastry-like sweet breading for creamy crystal malt foundation of brusquely pined citrus-bound full body.
ABOMINATION ULTRA STRATA WANDERING INTO THE FOG INDIA PALE ALE
Richly viscous dry-hopped IPA retains juicy lemony grapefruit zesting and sweet orange peel tang as well as perky floral-spiced peach, tangerine, mango and guava tropicalia plus brown pear and brown apple licks above sturdy cookie dough-sugared oated wheat base. Hard-candied citrus tartness outlasts sprucy pine needling. As thickly engaging as fabulous Ipswich IPA.
ABOMINATION ULTRA COMET WANDERING INTO THE FOG DOUBLE IPA
Fruit punched hazy nickel NEIPA utilizes grassy citrus-spiced Comet hops to forward gumball-sugared grapefruit, navel orange, peach and pineapple tang in waxy malt-pasted setting.
ABOMINATION MANTICORE’S MANIFEST TRIPLE IPA
Pleasantly moderate hazy golden ‘triple-hopped’ IPA retains soothingly smooth citrus zesting, mild floral spicing and delicately creamed head. Spritzy orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and peach tang overrides wispy piney hop prod as lightly soured lemony guava and gooseberry salting surges.
