On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, zestful orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and peachy tangerine licks gain resinous spruce-tipped pining and grassy hop astringency over caramelized pale malts for dry West Coast-styled IPA one step better than middle-of-the-road pack.
Zestful lemon-candied grapefruit peel and orange rind bittering and pineapple salted mango goodness gain dank wet-leafed resin and grassy floral wisps as liquid nitrogenated hops intensify brisk crisping. Pasty pale malting coats biscuity bottom at clean citrus-spiced finish.
Zesty lemony grapefruit sunshine spikes juniper-licked pine resin and pungent cannabis reminder as yogurt-soured peach, passionfruit and mango salting crests atop mildly creamed caramel malting. Exhilarating.
Briskly sharp lemony grapefruit-peeled pineapple and orange tang embittered by sturdy pine tone dryness contrasting less prominent floral-daubed crystal malt sugaring. Salted gooseberry, guava and passionfruit-inspired Nelson Sauvin hop souring stays subtle (despite promotional moniker) for steadfast hazy IPA.
Vibrant yellow marble-hazed IPA collab with North Carolina’s Resident Culture gleams with dry-hopped Citra-Mosaic tropical fruiting, woody Simcoe hop herbage and dank clay resin. Sunny lemon spritz splatters wispy grapefruit, mandarin orange and clementine tang.
Straight-up piney citrus spicing stays perfectly centrist for scaled down version of brewers’ Lips and Lungs Double IPA. Candi-coated grapefruit-peeled orange rind pleasantry retains light back end bittering reinforced by dry wood tones (and wispy alcohol esters) over a crusty French bread spine.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, radiant lemon zesting sparkles alongside juicy tangerine, grapefruit, mango, peach and clementine tang above creamed pale malt spicing. Resinous pine tones lightly embitter sunny citrus finish.
On tap at Beef Trust, briskly sharp lemony yellow grapefruit tang gains limey pineapple bittering and mandarin orange tartness as dank cannabis oiling contrasts wheat-flaked Vienna malt sugaring.
On tap at Ambulance, dry West Coast-styled pale ale utilizes IPA-like floral citrus spicing and dry pine tones to reinforce pale malt spine. Zesty lemon spritz gains subtle peach, orange and pineapple tanginess.
On tap at Ambulance, stylishly dryer and richer kolsch (labeled a summer ale) brings dry-hopped lemon rind bittering and lightly vinous green grape tartness to casual orange oiling over bready mineral-grained pilsner malting.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, oceanic Czech pilsner unites lime-salted Margarita tartness with blue agave Tequila twist and perfumed hop oiling atop pasty dough bottom for slightly offbeat cocktail offshoot.
MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS
Originally emanating from Worcester, FLYING DREAMS BREWING COMPANY landed in the quaint downtown neighborhood of Marlborough during 2018. Inside a green-shingled tan-sided professional building, Flying Dream’s wood-glossed interior is reminiscent of an intimate 1920’s speakeasy with its brown embossed tin ceiling tiles, elongated 10-seat pine bar and tulip Edison lighting.
Brewmaster Dave Richardson, a University of Vermont science major and UC-Davis grad who started at Red Hook before heading Gardner Ale House’s operations, went out on his own thereafter. Richardson’s general Flying Dreams fare never strays too far stylistically, promoting well-roundedness, balance and vigor. He’s won several US Beer Tasting awards along the way.
Tonight, on this warm June ’21 journey thru Marlborough, I enjoy nine diversified brews while taking home four more for outside consumption (reviewed in Beer index).
Flagship New England/ West Coast IPA hybrid, Pond Jumper, brought mildly perfumed passionfruit-grapefruit-pineapple-orange tropicalia and peachy mango zesting to honeyed pale malts contrasting dank pine resin.
Mildly creamed wheated oats contrast dank pine resin underlying the orange-bruised peach sweetness and mild grapefruit bittering of The Experimental IPA #2, a dry Imperial moderation.
Worthy India Dark Ale, Nightcrawler, heaved dry cocoa-malted nuttiness at less pervasive citrus-spiced dried fruiting and dark-roast hop char.
Sour lemon-limed Himalayan sea salting and light coriander spicing provided oceanic intrigue to Straight Up Gose, scaling back its acidulated wheat malts.
Herbaceous citrus spicing guarded Dreaming Up Summer Saison, a musky barnyard-grained farmhouse ale with lemony mandarin orange tanginess and buttery Chardonnay illusions darting thru musky barnyard graining contrasting creamy caramel malts.
Even more herbalized, Just In Thyme Saison brought evergreen thyme freshener to lemony woodruff syruping, mild rosemary-basil-paprika shimmy and lead-based pencil shavings.
Honey-glazed brown chocolate dipped into sweet fig-plum-prune conflux and caramelized hazelnut-pecan notions for Dragonator Double Bock.
Easygoing Park Avenue Porter plied dark chocolate malting to sedate hazelnut coffee, walnut ice cream and cola nut illusions plus distant dried fruiting.
Rich brown chocolate syruping drapes the mild chili burn of robust Aphrodisiac Russian Imperial Stout, letting creamily cocoa-nibbed hazelnut coffee tones as well as gentle burgundy-bourbon sweetness engage its fudgy cookie dough bottom.