Lovely 4th Anniversary (2022) celebrator is a coffee-dominant quadrupel. Sweet milk-creamed coffee overtones gain slight acidity as dark candi-sugared quad yeast picks up mild black peppered spicing and dewy orange pekoe tea snips.
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EVIL TWIN NYC / BURLEY OAK DUMB J.R.E.A.M.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, viscous purplish ruby fruited sour plies tart blackberry, strawberry and apricot jam to hesitant ‘peanut butter dollop.’ Mild citrus-soured lactose acidity underscores creamy fruit compote surface of turbid jellied matrix.
EVIL TWIN NYC DUMB FRUIT 17
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, viscous lactose-aided tropical fruiting stays tart as mild initial acidity promotes lemon-candied sourness ahead of blackberry, peach and mango adjuncts. Celery-watered red cherry, pomegranate and currant snips waver. Some unwanted alkalinity appears beneath.
EVIL TWIN NYC IT’D BE NICE IF YOU COULD PULL ME IN TO TOWN
Another wordily monikered Evil Twin brew. This time it’s a hazy golden yellowed triple NEIPA with a lightly creamed head that’s smooth as silk. Soft-toned sourly tart lemony yellow grape tannins meet yellow grapefruit, tangerine and papaya tropicalia as floral white peppered herbage wispily enters the fray.
EVIL TWIN NYC DUMB FRUIT 18
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, complex viscous purple reddish tropical fruited elixir combines mildly coconut-candied watermelon, raspberry and passionfruit adjuncts in chewy marshmallow setting. Tart eye-squinting fruited souring picks up salted mango-guava-pineapple licks as sweet watermelon, raspy raspberry and perfumed passionfruit flurries enrapture.
JUGHANDLE PEACH CRISP PASTRY SOUR
Fuzzy peach tartness rasps alongside sharply sour lemon-limed pucker contrasted by less prominent cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Vinous green grape daub and oaken vanilla tannins add to moderate acidity of peachy pastry dessert.
WELDWERKS BAMM BAMM RUBBLE RUBBLE SOUR WHEAT ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, obtuse sour wheat ale re-creates Fruity Pebbles rice cereal as Sweet-Tart Jolly Rancher-candied tartness enjoins slightly soured milk-sugared vanilla marshmallow creaming. In the distance, salty strawberry soured pucker gains mild concentrated orange juicing.
SKYGAZER WATERCOLORS REPLAY BERLINER WEISSE W/ BLACKBERRY, BLACK CURRANT, SWEET CHERRY
On tap at Taphouse 15, tartly sour blackberry-cherry conflux and mild blackcurrant adjunct reach lactic milk-sugared vanilla tannins. Teasing orange-tangerine tang, plastique blueberry pomegranate souring and pureed cherry rhubarb tartness struggle to integrate beneath currant-berried surface.
TOX / SKYGAZER WATER LILY SOUR ALE: BLUEBERRY CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW
Slushy Smoothie Skygazer collab combines kettle-soured Water Colors’ tartly blueberry-pied chocolate resonance and marshmallow creaming with fruit-looped Lily Of The Valley for mildly acidic, viscous magenta-hued, pastry-like dessert. Ample chocolate blueberry cake/ chocolate blueberry cheesecake resilience gains tart raspberry, boysenberry and blackberry compote influence.
BRIX CITY FRUITASTIC VOYAGE GUAVA STRAWBERRY LEMON GOSE
On tap at Taphouse 15, sour tropical fruited gose conditioned on guava, strawberry and lemon puree retains tart lime salted lactose acidity and recalls ‘Pink Starburst and freshly-squeezed lemonade.’ Lemony guava salting overruns strawberry rhubarb snag above dainty straw wheat base.
FIDDLEHEAD SECOND FIDDLE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Rebar – Lodi, extensively dry-hopped Old School West Coast IPA has become extremely popular nationwide. Subdued lemony grapefruit peel bittering joins tangy navel orange, tangerine and clementine conflux and mild pineapple, guava and mango illusions as buttery pale malt sugaring spreads all over delicate floral-daubed spicing. Sticky piney hop resin emerges at affable citric-spiced finish.
TOPPLING GOLIATH 18 HOURS FROM BROOKLYN DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, lupulin-forward collaboration with Other Half features diverse hop melange as grassy Saaz-hopped herbage, dry Simcoe-hopped wooding and limey Nelson Sauvin-hopped green grape, gooseberry and papaya licks pick up plastique pale malt gluiness. Mild grapefruit, pineapple and tangerine tang stays distant.
