Tangy parfait-styled, Smoothie-like pastry dessert surges ahead with pulpy strawberry and raspberry-pureed cherry bulk, concentrated orange juicing, coconut-milked granola nuttiness and lemon custard pudding buttering strategically placed alongside lactic milk-sugared vanilla yogurt creaming. Another incredible fruited sour dessert Smoothie from North Dakota’s best-known, highly experimental brewer.
On tap at Taphouse 15, vibrant sweet ‘n sour confection perfectly re-creates chocolate cherry cheesecake. Lemon-soured cherry pie tartness sweetened by milk-sugared Graham Cracker and marshmallow-fluffed vanilla above its doughy pie crusting. Latent raspberry, candied apple and cranberry illusions add depth. Excellent dessert.
On tap at Taphouse 15, delightful kettle-soured ale with dark Belgian candy syrup contrasting light lactic acidity brings tart Montmorency cherry juicing to wildflower-honeyed wheat spine. Cherry lollipop midst gains lemon-licked pomegranate souring.
Supercharged slushy Smoothie conditioned on tart peach, pureed banana, vanilla custard and brown-sugared cinnamon lets creamy marshmallow sweetness bring ambrosia salad fruiting into the complex mix. Chewy banana daquiri insistence, sneering lemony orange juiced souring, salted pineapple tanginess, gin-soaked lime bittering and graphitic pencil shavings deepen its resolve.
On tap at Taphouse 15, limited edition pinkish mauve-hued plum cherry variant retains lactic sour acidity and earthen desiccation as salted fruiting gains wispy white wining. Tart plum-soured red cherry tannins gain mild passionfruit, pink grapefruit, white peach and guava notions.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, spritzy lemon-soured peach puree pucker seeps thru phenolic Madagascar vanilla bean tannins. Lactic peaches ‘n cream tartness revealed at finish.
On tap at Taphouse 15, tart kettle soured moderation brings briny tangerine pucker and bitter passionfruit to dry vanilla tannins. Sour lemon musk greets mild tangerine/passionfruit adjuncts at the parched finish.
On tap at Taphouse 15, mouth-puckering limited edition spontaneously fermented ’22 lambic lets French oak wood parch seep into Chardonnay-barreled blackberry tartness and dry vanilla tannins. Vinegary white-wined lemon salting increases eye-squinting sourness, nearly overtaking its bitter blackberry essence.
Well-rounded Belgian-styled tripel maintains traditional strong pale ale integrity as dewy cellar-mildewed yeast funk absorbs white-peppered herbage for candi-sugared fruit esters. Spicy orange tang, lemon custard tartness, banana daiquiri cocktail punch, honeyed peach sweetness and rummy dried fruiting contrast dry botanical hop phenols. ‘Invigorating.’
Dewy peat mossing centers rye-dried Irish red ale as tobacco roasted crisping, brown apple spoilage, brown tea herbage and molasses-draped caraway seed nuttiness reach modest dark cocoa stead.
A bit of a stylistic departure as apple-skinned cherry and grape fruiting and mild orange oiled perfuming make bigger splash than stylish grapefruit pining above pasty pale malting.
Lactic orange-pureed tangerine thrust overrides any stylish vanilla-creamed ‘milkshake’ appeal. Instead, tart orange-candied lemon musk and citric-herbed hop astringency backed by dry pale malt spicing seems closer to a standardized American IPA.
