Tart pina colada-inspired cocktail with murky honeyed orange hue unites salted passionfruit, pineapple and orange adjuncts fronting yogurt-soured milk sugaring. Nifty tropical bonanza picks up slight coconut watered raspberry juicing and spritzy lemon liming.
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EVIL TWIN PINK PINEAPPLE
Gypsy brewed at Twelve Percent, impressive sour IPA ‘Slushy’ combines chunky pink pineapple tartness, pulpy concentrated orange juicing, peachy mango-nectar sweetness and zesty lemon twist above lactic acidulated malts. Try in lieu of a pineapple orange popsicle or pink lemonade.
DREAM STATE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF SOUR ALE
On tap at Draught Industries, mildly hazed pinkish amber Smoothie lacks creamily frothed turbidity of richer fruited sours. The dichotomy between its cotton-candied marshmallow sweetness and acidic lemon-juiced green grape esters leans closer to the sour side as oaken cherry, salted passionfruit, cranberry and guava illusions pucker its pink lemonade tartness.
EQUILIBRIUM AMBROSIA ALCHEMY INDIA PALE ALE W/ MANGO & MARSHMALLOW
Briskly tropical fruited delight! Salted mango exuberance picks up sharp yellow grapefruit tang, tart pineapple perk, zesty lemon zing and bitter orange rasp sweetened by creamy marshmallow fluff. Initial mango brined ambrosia salad facade and auxiliary peachy passionfruit-gooseberry souring overrun by bitter grapefruit-peeled orange rind onrush that blasts its mango jangle with lustrous enthusiasm.
EQUILIBRIUM HARVESTER OF SCIENCE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, sharp piney citrus bittering gallops thru sour guava-gooseberry patch and juniper berry whims. Lingered pine needling freshens brisk orange-tangerine tang and peachy cantaloupe nips.
SPELLBOUND MAJOR NELSON IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, briskly clean NEIPA mingles sweetly soured Nelson Sauvin-hopped gooseberry, mango, guava, passionfruit, pineapple and kiwi tropicalia with grassy Citra-hopped lemony grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and earthy Mosaic-hopped floral pining over soft oats flaked base.
KANE WINDOW PAINE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, off-dry NEIPA brings briny grapefruit-peeled orange pith spritz to sticky pine resin above mild pilsner oats malting.
FOAM EXPERIMENTAL JETSET
On tap at Growler & Gill, sunshiny floral citrus resolve and mildly embittered limey gooseberry-guava souring lead the way for dry NEIPA. Zestful lemony grapefruit-pineapple juiciness and tangy tangerine-peach auxiliary glisten thru resinous pine tones for tropical fruited delight.

TIN BARN HOP VISION #3
On tap at Growler & Gill, lemony orange-peeled yellow grapefruit Citra-hopped zesting and tart Nelson Sauvin-hopped gooseberry souring sit across sticky Simcoe-hopped pine resin (and dank grassy stead), picking up candied peach glaze for lightly embittered tropical fruited NEIPA.
UBERGEEK SPACE AGE TIMES, STONE AGE MINDS NEW ENGLAND IPA
Rummy orange-peeled pineapple, mango, grapefruit and papaya tanginess rampages thru sticky pine resin and mild floral spicing over oated wheat malts. Boozy 8.2% ABV ethers stimulate vodka-clean tropical fruited finish.
BEER’D KARATE IN THE WATER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, sessionable NEIPA lets Aussie-originated Enigma hops bring salted grapefruit, diced pineapple, zesty lemon and tart redcurrant spicing to herbal-licked grassiness and dank pine resin cresting above gentle oats-flaked base.
HOAX DR. SPRUCE INDIA PALE W/ SPRUCE TIPS/ JUNIPER
On tap at Jealous Monk, crisply clean NEIPA derivative blends minty spruce-tipped insistence and brisk juniper berry bite with zestful lemony grapefruit bittering to the honeyed pale malt bottom of lightly pined Simcoe-hopped masterpiece.