Refreshingly clean salt-watered taffy tartness promoted by limey strawberry pucker. Mildly sour sea-salted lime briskness combines with strawberry spritz and less prominent agave-cologned herbage for White Claw hard seltzer appeal, but Graham Cracker wheat bottom’s outta place. On tap at Hoover’s Tavern April 2024, sea-salted lime zesting gained tart strawberry snag as Jolly Rancher Watermelon and candied tangerine illusions sneak thru mildly acidic summertime dry bodied sour.
On tap at Growler & Gill, reserved pumpkin-spiced moderation spreads brown-sugared cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice sweetness across dried ginger insistence and mild perfumed hops above relegated Graham Cracker-honeyed wheat spine. Predictably staid and worthily conformist.
Brown-sugared pureed pumpkin pie spicing lets ginger-snapped cinnamon toasting gain prominence above earthen gourd-bound foliage. Fizzy orange peel spritz never precludes pumpkin-spiced sweetness.
On tap at Taphouse 15, smoothly dry moderation permits Loral-hopped floral herbage to delicately penetrate lemony quince and mandarin orange desiccation above saltine-crackered cereal graining. Serve to lighter palates.
On tap at Tapastre, stylishly dryer hefeweiss offers lemony banana-clove expectancy to lightly smoked wheat malts and salted herbal hop sedation. A tad underwhelming.
On tap at River Of Beer, effervescent lemony orange tang provokes mild coriander spicing over cracked wheat spine in unassuming manner. Casual light-bodied wit for autumn 2020.
On tap at Taphouse 15, vibrantly soft-tongued yellow-marbled moderation renders Citra-Mosaic-hopped citrus sunshine for salty herbal-spiced pale malt dryness. Subdued grapefruit-orange tang holds steady.
Off-center, non-traditional, Cascade-hopped cider lets pressed apple souring embellish vinous white wine esters, fizzy lemon-limed strawberry tartness, glittery champagne sparkle and pickled watermelon rind earthiness. Leaders of a dry-hopped cider craze?
On tap at Draught Industries, lactose-aided wild ale promotes tart passionfruit-guava adjuncts and mild vanilla bean creaming for veritable “dessert sour.” Limey guava-passionfruit souring gains ancillary coconut-milked grapefruit, orange and mango tang to jazz up snazzy tropical fruiting.
Delicately vinous grape-skinned rosé resolve sways stainless-aged mixed culture farmhouse ale as ancillary pinot noir grape mustiness and pickled lime salting settle above musky compost soiling. At the puckered finish, green grape esters allow hard-candied cherry, strawberry and raspberry sourness as well as a wispy floral aspect to burgeon.
Abundant lactobacillus bacteria deepens sour edge of amber-bronzed bourbon-aged farmhouse ale. Subtle dry bourbon influence seeps into vinous white wine tannins, musty oaken cherry leathering and bitter lemon peel zesting, picking up salted lime licks and tart strawberry-kiwi snips at the finish. As it warms, slight berry-peach sweetness sneaks by.
On tap at Draught Industries, Flemish red ale (a style originating in Flanders, Belgium) aged in oak wine foeders leaves vinous green grape tannins, puckered green apple bittering and oaken cherry tartness upon raspy lactobacillus acidity above musty barnyard leathering. A bustling wild ale for heady sour heads.
