On tap at Taphouse 15, tart pinkish magenta hued blueberry pie-inspired sour ale recalls floral-bound blueberry wine as green grape esters provide sour edge to less enduring marshmallow-sugared Graham Cracker spine.
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MOUNTAINS WALKING SWEETS (STRAWBERRY, BLACKBERRY, MARSHMALLOW)
Radiant pinkish amber-glowed kettle sour better defined as an ‘acidified gose’ retains dry coriander-cracked salinity to contrast its streusel crumb cake aspirations – but traveling way beyond stylistic misnomers. Supremely tart orange-juiced pink lemonade pucker soaks subtle strawberry-blackberry pureed adjunct in milky Smoothie-like lactose setting, extending its sharply acidic citrus thrust to vanilla-creamed marshmallow center. At the creamy finish, berried crumb cake tartness surges.
PRAIRIE VAPE TRICKS
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, hard-candied cherry tartness picks up vinous green grape esters and musty oaken vanilla tannins as well as hibiscus, rhubarb and cranberry illusions above leathery earthen bottom of fruited kettle sour.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS STATE OF THE ART: BARLEYWINE
On tap at Ambulance, mellow fruited wheat wine hides its elevated 11.2% ABV in a humble cognac-divined maple molasses setting. Oaken cherry, creamed sherry, dry burgundy, buttery Chardonnay and peach wine illusions stay subtle. Almost heavenly serenity.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS K THX WHEAT ALE
Peculiarities abound for lemon-clad sour wheat ale with extremely tart cranberry-pureed sweet potato adjunct. Sour creamed potato flaking diminishes fast as green grape tannins add vinous contrast to oncoming pink lemonade tang leveling off finishing cranberry souring.
SHORT THROW GOSE WITH MANGOES & APRICOT
Supremely tart ‘acidified gose’ with radiant rust glow recalls a densely fruited Smoothie with its concentrated orange juicing rasping mango-salted apricot pureeing and leaving an intense sour candied pucker. Truly captures its hybridized styling. Not as gooey and chewy as globular Fort Nonsense’s Back Off Man I’m A Scientist or Bolero Snort’s Uddr, two similarly succulent sour ales.
(TWO ROADS) AREA TWO DARK SOUR CHERRY WILD ALE
From Area Two Experimental Series, tart Morello cherries gain sharply vinous white wine pucker, salted raspberry vinaigrette acidity and leathery barnyard astringency for mildly ammoniated pinkish amber-cleared sour ale. In the distance, cinnamon-burned red apple, pomegranate and cranberry illusions waver.
(TWO ROADS) AREA TWO TWOQUILA BARREL-AGED LIME GOSE
Briny lime-juiced blue agave adjunct – aged in tequila barrels – leaves dry (orange-less) Margarita appeal. But Seltzer-fizzed salted lime pucker receives preclusive lambic-like vinous acidity. Still, pairs well with spicy Mexican dishes.
HUDSON VALLEY HELIODOR SOUR IPA
On tap at Draught Industries, bubbly red champagne-hued sour IPA offers tart lemonade-sugared pink grapefruit piquancy and orange-fleshed watermelon snip to quirky hibiscus-doused lemon balming. Spritzy citrus zesting gathers milk-sugared yogurt souring and flaked oats creaming along the way.
SPRINGDALE LAVENADE
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, lavender tea-like earthiness greets Meyer lemon tang and limey bittering for sourly ‘tart ale.’ Lemon-juiced lavender adjunct picks up latent vinous white wining.
LONE EAGLE BOYSENBERRY GUSHER
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, boysenberry-forward, salmon coral-hazed, kettle acidified ‘gusher’ retains tart berry essence. Limey boysenberry salting admits ancillary blackberry, raspberry cranberry and huckleberry illusions to flourish alongside wispy ruby red grapefruit zesting and mildly floral rosé misting.
LONE EAGLE VANILLA MILKSHAKE INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, mild Madagascar vanilla bean creaminess saturated by spicy pale malted ambrosial fruiting as tropical grapefruit-orange-peach-pineapple tang and lemon meringue tartness outdo any lasting vanilla verve.
