On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, pale yellow hazed IPA plies lightly citrus-spiced Citra/Mosaic/Idaho 7 hop combo to musty pine resin and salty herbal nips. Lightly embittered lemon rind, orange pith and white grapefruit zesting relegates dry pale malt bottom.
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CONCLAVE BUTCH’S PALE ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, musky orange-dried grapefruit, tangerine and apricot tartness subtly reaches honeyed oats-flaked wheat bottom, picking up musty hop resin.
LAWSON’S FINEST HAZY RAYS IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, soft-toned, sun-glowed, lightly yellow-hazed moderation sidles (Citra-hopped) lemony grapefruit and mandarin orange zesting next to (Mandarina Bavaria hopped) salted guava tartness. Mild floral spicing joins delicate citrus continuance above dry pale malting.
TROEGS DOUBLE NUGGET NECTAR
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar. Retaining only some of the resilience of original Nugget Nectar, this bigger version ups the Simcoe hopped piney dankness but defers the spruce tipped insistence, lowers its honey-spiced fruiting and allows light white peppered perfuming to enter the fray.
FIDENS SELF CONTAINED PALE ALE
Durable hazy golden pale ale dupes New England IPA’s yogurt-milked wheated oats creaming and tart gooseberry-guava souring to serenade vibrant citrus rasp of richer stylistic departure. Lemony orange bittering lets mild spruce licks, subtle juniper swoon and delicate floral spicing penetrate the off-dry tropical fruited surface.
14TH STAR DIVE BOMB HAZY PALE ALE
Zestful pineapple-juiced grapefruit tanginess and sharp orange rind bittering roll into slightly dank resinous pine-licked evergreen minting above dry pale malts.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN SIERRA TANGO NEW ENGLAND PALE ALE
Retaining the bright citrus nature of a dry IPA, brisk pale ale lets piney fruiting run thru musky hop phenols and arid pale malts. Lemony yellow grapefruit stead allows ancillary orange-peeled pineapple, green mango and papaya tropicalia to spread.
OAKFLOWER RING 2 PALE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry-hopped pale ale utilizes IPA-related Mosaic-Nelson-Simcoe hop conflux to forward freshly squeezed orange juicing, salted pineapple tang white grapefruit bittering and mild peach sweetness above buttery oated wheat.
EQUILIBRIUM C PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, tropical fruited straw yellowed moderation with mildly spiced caramel malt sugaring. Lemony pineapple bittering lingers softly alongside peachy tangerine-nectarine sweetness, mandarin orange pleasantry and ripe banana snip contrasting tannic green grape reminder.
EQUILIBRIUM COLOR CLOUD PINK BERLINER WEISSE
On tap at Ambulance, sour lactobicillus acidity burrows into lemon-salted pink guava, passionfruit and dragonfruit tropicalia, picking up light rhubarb tartness and earthen barnyard-dried woodruff syruping.
ROOT + BRANCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER
On tap at Taphouse 15, efficient English-styled extra special bitter invites spicy rye, chalky cocoa and nutty respite to its mossy peated ridge.
MODIST GIFTS OF THE SACRED FATHER DOPPELBOCK
On tap at Taphouse 15, sweet dark chocolate rye breading stays modest alongside mildly perfume-spiced dried fruiting, reaching dewy Vienna-Munich malt base in buttery lagered yeast setting.