Creamy banana-clove insistence gains strength against zesty lemon pith bittering, herbal Belgian-like yeast phenols, nectarous rum sugaring and starchy plantain snip to secure bolder stylistic urgency.
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FLOUNDER STICKY PANCAKES BREAKFAST STOUT
Wispily bourbon barrel-aged stout needs richer resolve although brown-sugared maple syruping glides above light-roast coffee tones and vanilla pastry creaming with great ease. Pancake breakfast treat retains doughy powdered sugar buttermilk intrigue as distant dry bourbon, dark cherry and grape jam illusions graze latent burnt-toast hop char.
FLOUNDER SMOOTH OPERATOR PORTER
Politely creamed vanilla sugaring gains toffee-spiced brown chocolate sweetness and Blackstrap molasses coffee tones above mild hop-charred pine tarring for efficiently integrated dark ale.
CARTON AND A JELLY IMPERIAL CREAM ALE
On tap at Beef Trust, fruity Regular Coffee spinoff finished on raspberries plies milk-sugared coffee creaming to pastry-caked breakfast confection. Raspberry jellied tartness sweetens yellow-caked coffee caking for fine proprietary derivative.
MOTHER EARTH CALI CREAMIN’ VANILLA CREAM ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, raw-honeyed dry maize sinew contrasts corn-flaked vanilla sugaring of pale malted cream ale (with a snazzy dessert-like Creamsicle twist). Doughy Danish pastry finish picks up cannoli, zeppole and marshmallow sweetener that absorbs mild tea latte snip. Fairly unconventional stylistically.
NICKEL BROOK RASPBERRY UBER BERLINER WEISS
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, fizzy purplish amber-cleared Berliner Weiss (with bubbly pink champagne head) lets tart raspberry rasp receive sour lemon spritz and delicate floral daubs to its earthen-dried salty bottom. Mildly acidic raspberry adjunct picks up subtle oaken cherry, cranberry and pomegranate illusions.
ICARUS THRASH BASH TRIPLE INDIA PALE ALE WITH MILK SUGAR
On tap at Beef Trust, mild milk-sugared vanilla creaming and heavily oated wheat influence pale in comparison to steadfast West Coast IPA-like piney hop fruiting. Vodka-clean grapefruit bittering enjoins tangy peach, tangerine and mango crescendo over delicate crystal malting.
MAGNIFY COTTON CANDY LAND IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, confectionary NEIPA conditioned on fluffy cotton candy receives yogurt-like ambrosial fruiting secured by creamy vanilla sugaring. Tangy pineapple juicing, perfumed lemon zesting and bitter grapefruit zing invite muted passionfruit, peach, guava and kiwi illusions to the cotton-candied marshmallow wonderland.
SHORT THROW CLANS, POSSES, CREWS & CLIKS
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, crisply clean Citra-hopped NEIPA guards orange-peeled grapefruit and lemon zesting with sedate pine resin. Sunny citrus frontage picks up latent passionfruit-papaya illusions with snappy carbolic fizz.
KELLY GREEN DISREGARDED ARTIFACT NEIPA
Totally sessionable Eldorado-Sauvin-hopped NEIPA bridles mild grapefruit pith-rind bittering with tart green grape esters and tangy orange peel zesting in a sweetly spiced floral perfumed setting to its salty bottom.
ABOMINATION TOXIC EARTH DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, fine soft-toned greenish yellowed sludge brings mild milk sugaring to floral lemon-dropped Citra-Mosaic orange and grapefruit zesting above its matcha green tea honeying. Murkily toxic slush.
EVIL TWIN THE LAST TIME I USED A YOGA MAT
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, zestful lemon-lime candied ‘hazy DIPA’ gains salt-licked mandarin orange pleasantry as well as distant blueberry-passionfruit snips above resinous pine tones.
