Sharp citrus zesting conquers vanilla creamed strawberry tang and mild rhubarb souring of brisk milkshake IPA. Limey Huell Melon-hopped guava and gooseberry bittering stays sedate atop gluey wheated oats, erasing some of the initial strawberry influence.
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FIRESTONE COCONUT MIND HAZE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, coconut-daubed tropical fruiting brightens yellow-hazed, moderate-bodied, Mind Haze offshoot. Lightly vanilla-creamed coconut adjunct offers only subtle sweetener to lemon meringue tartness, zesty lime souring, salted mango-papaya-guava juicing, mild pineapple bittering and orange vodka sharpness.
BOLERO SNORT PINEAPPLE’S MOOTH WHIP
Rich pineapple funnel caking enjoins supremely tart orange-juiced lemon zesting over gooey marshmallow-creamed milk sugaring, leaving bittersweet Pez-candied powdering upon the tangy citrus-sharp pineapple immensity. Serve semi-frozen for total Smoothies journey. May be best pineapple ale circa ’21.
BOLERO SNORT BLOOM MOOAU
Thick rust bronze glowed fruited sour ale rampages forward with tart limey strawberry, guava and passionfruit adjuncts outdoing banana taffy sweetness and concentrated orange juicing over milk-sugared vanilla creaming. Another exceptional, richly textured, tartly soured Smoothie by Bolero.
BOLERO SNORT DON’T FEED THE BULLS
Straightforward citrus-spiced Imperial IPA with limey guava-pineapple tropicalia and tangy peach-orange-tangerine zesting backed by mild pine-oiled hops over delicate oats malting and finishing with a clean fruited vodka fuming.
BOLERO SNORT WALLET PROBULLEMS
On tap at Beef Trust, crisply clean cryo hop fruited tropicalia rides atop yogurt-milked lemon souring and distant pine needling. Above all, salted grapefruit, orange and pineapple zesting provides tongue-tingled summertime spritz.
BOLERO SNORT I BLESS THE REINS IPA
Zestful citrus perfuming guards piney hop stead above ‘fluffy’ flaked oats creaming. Pineapple-pureed passionfruit, guava and yellow grapefruit tartness gains hard-candied sour edge.
ICARUS NEON FANTASY
Stylishly ambitious lactose-bound NEIPA finished on lemongrass and coconut retains marshmallow-fluffed vanilla creaming to contrast sour yogurt milking. Minty lemongrass-cologned spruce tips sop up heavily-oated coconut oiling as brisk yellow grapefruit-spiced pineapple, mango, guava and orange tang dispatches zestful tropical fruiting. Excellent.
ICARUS YACHT JUICE IMPERIAL IPA
Zestfully juicy fruited NEIPA dazzles, plying lemony orange-pineapple-peach-mango tropicalia to sugary pale malts contrasting dank piney hop resin of sunshiny medium bodied serenity.

ICARUS COBRA CLUTCH IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Beef Trust, heavily wheated oats fortify tropical fruited dry-hopped moderation. Lemony orange Citra hop zesting brightens lightly soured Nelson Sauvin hop guava-gooseberry-passionfruit waver (and oily waxed plasticity), gaining powdered candy tartness at the citric-spiced finish.
18TH STREET UNDER CROWN DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
Closer to a spritzy glass-candied pale ale with its crystal malt-sugared glutenous wheat pasting and tangy peach-nectarine-tangerine-pineapple serenade overriding stylishly expectant orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and resinous hop pep.
FINBACK STELLAR WAVES TRIPLE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned vanilla creaming and yogurt-soured coconut milking caress subtle lemon zesting and tropical peach-pineapple-mango-grapefruit tang above delicate herbal cannabis-like hop dankness. Delightful rounded moderation.