Well integrated creamily frothed tropical fruit bouquet blends sweet orange peel zesting, yellow grapefruit bittering, piquant pineapple tang, ‘tangerine marmalade’ flutter and wispy mango-guava-papaya conflux before picking up mild floral-daubed spicing and resinous cannabis-like piney hop oiling above doughy pale malts. Sugary rum rush floats thru juicy tropical fruited mayhem of prominent 10.2% ABV DIPA.
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HOOF HEARTED SOUTH OF ELEVEN 666 TRIPLE IPA
Intense hazy golden full body utilizes dry-hopped Mosaic variety to juice up fulsome 10.2% ABV NEIPA. Initial lemon lime-candied yellow grapefruit bittering and zesty orange peel sweetness plus ancillary peach, pineapple, papaya and tangerine tang gain mild resinous pine needling, syrupy spruce-tipped sugaring and peppery herbal snip. Creamily frothed vanilla-spiced crystal malting saddles rummy tropical fruiting as waxy clay lacquering persists for souped-up India Pale Ale.
WOVEN WATER CHROMATIC DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, laidback orange-peeled grapefruit bittering plus polite floral-daubed mango, pineapple and papaya tang caress grassy hop astringency as frothily creamed vanilla sweetens the tongue.
BULL N BEAR FAANG-TASTIC NEIPA
Abrupt pine-lacquered grapefruit bittering gains spritzy orange-peeled pineapple, peach and mango tang plus mildly salted passionfruit-guava-gooseberry souring as minty spruce-tipped perfuming grabs hold above stable vanilla-daubed oated wheat creaming. Not unlike a fruited gin-soaked vodka martini.
BULL N BEAR PYRAMID AMERICAN PALE ALE
Sharp grapefruit-peeled orange pith bittering and dry wood tones counter sugary pale malts in zestful tropical IPA-like setting reinforced by spruce-tipped fern minting.
BENNY GREEN TEA IPA
Contentedly utilizing Japanese Torno Sencha green tea to spark its sharply spiced yellow grapefruit, navel orange and pineapple bittering, briskly dry IPA placates Sorachi Ace/ Citra-hopped tropical fruiting with herbal Columbus-hopped earthiness and piercing juniper berry minting above honeyed pale malting.
RIVER HORSE EAR WIGGLER IPA
Velvety straightforward IPA with modest lemony grapefruit bittering and soft-toned pineapple-guava tang settling near subtle pine tones in dry pale malt setting.
TILTED BARN SUMMIT AMERICAN PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, hazy beige New England-styled pale ale brings slightly salted sour gooseberry, green grape and guava tartness to the fore as mild cantaloupe-honeydew sweetness flutters in viscous lactic setting. Dank hop resin adds to the mellow bittering and soft white wheated pilsner malting provides bready base.
(HACKENSACK) BERGEN COUNTY KOLSCH
Excellent kolsch collab between southern Bergen County brewers (Hackensack; Alementary; Bolero Snort; Brix City). Zesty lemon spritz shines bright as mildly creamed vanilla sweetness, lightly salted herbal hops, candied lemondrop tartness and floral spicing gather atop delicate white bread base.
BITBURGER / DESCHUTES DRY HOP’D ZWICKL
On tap at Ambulance, soothingly light-bodied zwickel lager (with frisky Americanized Citra-Mosiac hops) places musky lemon souring and dank earthen graining alongside delicate Saaz hop herbage, gaining waxy grapefruit and orange wisps (from zesty tropical hop influence).
SHIP BOTTOM MEXICAN CERVEZA
Limey sea-salted spritz, corn-dried pale malting and musky Saaz hop herbage merge atop earthen soiling for summery light-bodied Mexican brew.
AURORA / BEER TREE AEON
On tap at Ambulance, worthy German pils collab retains crisply clean mineral graining and herbal Saaz hop musk tethering waxy floral-daubed citrus-soured Motueka hop addition (as well as subtle lemongrass pungency).