On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, spritzy lemon-candied leads the way for juicy fruited Galaxy-Citra-Mosaic hop zesting as sharply wooded Amarillo-Simcoe hop dryness adds contrast. Ripened peach, pineapple, orange and tangerine tanginess gains mild peppery herbage and wispy spiced currant tartness at the durable finish.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, mellow yellow grapefruit, mandarin orange and lemon zesting buttressed by mild herbal musk and dank pine resin above sugary pale malts for unexpectedly boozy (10% ABV) Imperial IPA.
On tap at Plank Pizza, soft-toned grapefruit, orange, peach and pineapple tang greets delicate piney hop resin and grassy astringency above mildly creamed crystal malting.
Sunny yellow grapefruit bittering, sharp orange peel tang and spiced pineapple salting enter dry resinous pine center in crystalline cryo Mosaic-Azacca hop setting, picking up light herbage.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, wintry Christmas fruitcake spicing guards expressive saison. Wildflower-honeyed rose hips, chamomile and black currant adjuncts, draped by dark Belgian candi syrup, gain dried fig-cherry-pineapple fruiting and lemony banana glaze to contrast marginal phenolic black-peppered cellar musk.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, offbeat meat-cured gourd spicing may seem too extreme for a caramel-toasted red ale, but the combo works. Maple-glazed bacon sweetness gains candied apple coating enjoining pumpkin pie-spiced nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice seasoning to linger atop smoked spelt-grained Weyermann malts.
Finely blended oak-aged Flanders Red Ale unites vinous green grape souring and bitter white wine esters with less prominent brown-sugared dried fruiting. Along the way, strong ammonia esters deepen its sour vinegaring. Below, soily brown leaf astringency sops up sweet-sour cider tease.
On tap at Jealous Monk, salty lemon-juiced guava pureeing bolstered by moderately acidic orange concentrated pineapple bittering above coriander-seeded pilsner malt base.
Sweet wintry-spiced frosted sugar cookie knockoff topped off with iced vanilla buttercream frosting and pancake battered cinnamon toasting buries phenol Columbus hop astringency beneath oncoming cotton-candied marshmallow licks, fried banana snips and distant nutmeg wisps coated by mildly maple syruped oats flaking. Cream vanilla spice caking crowds the sugar cookie finish.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, brown-sugared ginger snap cookie knockoff contrasts creamy vanilla-sweetened gingerbread cookie sugaring and tingly cinnamon-nutmeg-clove seasoning with oncoming orange-peeled Blackstrap molasses bittering for delectably spiced vanilla cream ale. Another fine Christmastime ale.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, dewy peat moss absorbs molasses-daubed cocoa dusting and mild Christmastime ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon spicing as recessive brown-leafed dark-roast hop astringency wavers thru gingerbread finish.
On tap at Jealous Monk, dewy dark lager with mildest smoked rauchbier influence provides wispy smoke bacon dash for Bakers chocolate, chicory coffee and ashen chestnut whims above cocoa-powdered carafa malting.
