On tap at Smiling Chameleon, soft-toned citric spritzer reaches moderate India Pale Ale-like heights with its brisk wood-dried grapefruit rind bite. Bright orange-tangerine-pineapple tang and zesty lemon juicing regale mineral-watered twig-bark earthiness. Toasted caramel malting at bready yeast base tempers mild bittering.
Slickly glutinous pale-strawed fodder (reticently contract brewed by Genesee’s sponsor) promises the goldmine but gives us the shaft. Stale whiskey entry depleted by nasty corn-sugared malt liquoring and oily-hopped diacetyl buttering. Skunky cat urine salting further cheapens ruggedly coarse $2.99 per 6-pack dreck.
Give New Belgium collaboration a higher grade if genuinely appreciative of uncertain whiskey-soured orange rot plot. Horse-blanketed brettanomyces funk inundates citric tartness, vinous cider pucker, mild earthen minerality and coarsely carbolic hops. Tangerine, clementine and navel orange undertones provoke winey green-yellow grape esters and bruised apricot-peach niche.
Well balanced and fairly complex farmhouse-styled Belgian IPA collides barnyard-wafted graining with herbaceous citric pining to sweet honeyed malt backdrop. Lemon-candied citron hops dig deep into piney grapefruit entry, picking up earthen wheatgrass, alfalfa, whey, hay and oats minerality. Sour grape-skinned pineapple, mango and marmalade illusions waver.
