On tap at Taphouse 15, rustic pilsner malt base brings cara-malted spelt and oats graining to the fore alongside dry-hopped lemony grapefruit bittering while resinous pine tones waver.
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BOLERO SNORT ONE HUFF IN FRONT OF THE OTHER WITH PEACH
On tap at Beef Trust, pulpy peach pureeing immediately embittered by sharp pineapple-juiced yellow grapefruit briskness, gaining yogurt-soured barley flouring and groaty buckwheat waxing. Tart peach-pineapple conflux allows tropical mango, guava, papaya, nectarine and orange fruiting to emerge alongside stiff alcohol burn.
CZIG MEISTER BOOM HAKA RAKAU RASPBERRY MILKSHAKE
On tap at Taphouse 15, pleasantly soft-toned, lactic conditioned NEIPA brings raspberry-soured melon rind bittering to yogurt-milked vanilla creaming and brisk lemony grapefruit spritz for snazzy lactic-sugared tropical fruited effervescence.
CZIG MEISTER STRAWBERRY CREAM ALE
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, soft-toned, nitrogenated, beige yellow-hazed cream ale hybrid lets salted strawberry souring gain grassy-hopped lemon spritz and mild rhubarb pie tartness above acidulated pale malt base.
WICKED WEED ARCANIC
Resounding candi-sugared plum and currant tartness picks up chewy dried prune sweetness for oaken foeder-aged Belgian dark strong ale. Tannic red wine foeder barrels add mossy earthen dew remnant to dried fruited nature deepened a tad by tertiary blackberry, boysenberry and cranberry illusions. An arcane peculiarity for adventurous denizens.
FLYING FISH ABBEY DUBBEL
On tap at Biggie’s, updated version of brewers’ most popular ale (newly labeled and stylistically bettering similarly-named ’06 precursor, Belgian Style Dubbel) places spicy brown-sugared dried fruiting alongside caramelized chocolate malting. Molasses-dipped dried cherry, fig, raisin and date sweetness gains peaty respite as well as subdued chestnut, banana bread and toffee notions.
CAPE MAY SUMMER CATCH BELGIAN WHEAT ALE
Brusquely complex straw-cleared witbier relies less on stylish coriander-spiced orange peel zesting and more on musky herbal funk, picking up limey lemon rot souring and wispy banana-clove sweetness over its delicate pilsner malt base. White-peppered lemongrass, ginger, fennel and parsley herbage speckle its spryly summertime Citra-hopped spritz.
NESHAMINY CREEK MISADVENTURES & MISSTEPS
On tap at Sogo, refreshingly crisp Belgian golden ale with mild lemongrass and pink peppercorn adjuncts dabbing bright lemon zested mandarin orange tang as well as sweet banana-clove wisps and wavering Sauvignon blanc-wined white pear snips. Zestful herb-laced citrus finish stays sharp.
KANE HALF-TIMBERED BOCK
On tap at Taphouse 15, wispy bourbon barrel aging sweetens toffee-spiced fig sugaring and dewy cold-lagered pilsner malting for tidy, if underwhelming, bock.
OXBOW CAVERN SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, lightly vinous green grape tannins gain tart orange-dried lemon pucker above acrid barnyard leathering for dry wine-soured ‘cara cara’ orange juice-fermented farmhouse ale.
JACKIE O’S / JESTER KING FINAL ENTROPY KOLSCH
On tap at Ambulance, dry kolsch-inspired farmhouse ale spreads lemony green grape esters across sweet champagne yeast modesty and leathery straw hay parch as sour mixed culture yeast enhancement sedates tartly citric white wine pucker of reasonable hybridized kolsch-saison.
SIX HARBORS CENTERPORT PILSNER
Rustic dry-bodied straw-hued bohemian pilsner brings earthen maize-husked grassy hop astringency to sour lemon-juiced green grape tannins and leathery horse-blanketed cheesecloth smear. A sourer pils.
