Heavily wheated Berliner Weiss-styled cereal breakfast conditioned on salted strawberries and acai berry gets abruptly sweetened by milk-sugared marshmallow and vanilla-daubed toasted coconut above mild cucumber-watered celery earthiness. Ascending strawberry rhubarb tartness caresses ancillary orange-juiced pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia at the busily fruited woodruff syrup finish.
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KCBC SUN SORCERESS RICE SAISON
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, mellow beige-cleared lightweight bends peculiar cologne muskiness into zesty citrus perfuming and salted white-pepper spicing, picking up Laffy Taffy tartness above sweet-riced spelt base. Slightly offbeat curiosity.
KCBC MARBLE OF DOOM IV SOUR
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, tart purple-hazed offshoot lets muskily sour boysenberry, black raspberry and plum pureeing linger manneredly alongside sweet grape jamming contrasting oaken cherry salting. Awesomely designed.
HERMIT THRUSH BRATTLEBEER SOUR
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, vinous mixed-culture golden sour ale spontaneously foudre-aged with sharp cider gains musky oaken white wine leathering. Puckering green grape esters and tart crabapple frolic heighten bitterly acidic nature.
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FRONT PORCH / SKYGAZER BOBA BLISS MANGO
Brewed in North Haven by Twelve Percent for local Front Porch and Skygazer collab, tartly terrific Taiwanese tea-based mango/ peach slushee bursts forth with dynamic flavonoids. Combing sweet ‘n soured salted mango tanginess with peachy pineapple-orange juicing, zesty lemon liming and slightly bitter kiwi-guava tropicalia, its creamy vanilla center appeases the full-frontal ambrosial fruit assault of frothily billowed opaquely gold glowed sour ale.
OLD NATION M43 TART STRAWBERRY N.E. INDIA PALE ALE
Fine limited edition M43 offshoot lets tart strawberry puree adjunct and sharp citrus-spiked piney bittering receive vanilla-creamed yogurt milking souring, procuring mild guava, gooseberry and green grape snips to contrast distant marshmallow sugaring.
UNTIED DATA DETERMINES DATES INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, polite lemon-soured mango salting, mild crayon-waxed tangerine tang and wispy melon tartness gain dank cannabis oiling above softly creamed wheated oats spine.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS BARBE ROUGE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, delicate salted grapefruit-embittered mandarin orange tang and wax-candied lemon twist hover ever so gently above herby clay-hopped grouting to contrast pasty pale malt sugaring.
EQUILIBRIUM OG’S AXE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, crushably soft-toned NEIPA pads subtle orange rind-embittered yellow grapefruit bittering and slightly soured strawberry-passionfruit-pineapple-papaya tropicalia to floral-spiced alacrity countering dank cannabis oiliness above pasty oats flaked malt gumming. Pleasantly offbeat.
EQUILIBRIUM FRACTAL RAKAU/GALAXY INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dryer-than-stylish NEIPA brings limey cantaloupe-honeydew-melon-mango salting (and contrasting candied plum, fig and date sweetness) to grassy mildewed pine needling over gluey pale malts for Rakau/Galaxy-hopped Fractal offshoot.
BURLINGTON BEER CREATURES OF MAGIC NEW ENGLAND IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, soft-tongued lemony grapefruit-peeled blood orange tartness and limey pineapple-melon-blueberry salting graze mild pine needling over fluffy oats flaked malting for easygoing NEIPA.
ASLIN TOKYO SMOKE IPA
On tap at Beef Trust, balanced tropical fruited medium body retains lightly creamed oated wheat malting as delicate pineapple, coconut, melon, peach and tangerine sweetness contrasts piney hop resin indubitably.