On tap at Ambulance, lactose-aided pastry stout spreads creamy vanilla beaned dark chocolate bittering across mild ancho chili pepper heat as black cherry-bruised raspberry and blueberry tartness and subtle cinnamon spicing strengthen its mocha richness.
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LORD HOBO ATOMIC INSOMNIAC COFFEE MILK STOUT
Cold brew coffee adjunct settles to oily coffee finish that lacks creamy assertiveness and overall depth. In the midst, chicory coffee, dark chocolate and espresso tones given slight lemon twist before picking up charcoal hop sear.
DROWNED LANDS BLACK ASH PORTER
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned porter conditioned on oak and given bittersweet Madagascar vanilla bean creaming gains coffee-roasted dark chocolate splurge as mild weedy hop oiling snags tarry snick.
(HUYGHE) DELIRIUM RED BELGIAN ALE
Plush pinkish-headed, ruby-marooned Belgian-styled red ale loads emphatic sour-candied cherry tartness into dryly berry-fruited, unmalted-wheated Lambic phenols. Medicinal cherry syruping and oaken cherry esters politely herbal spiced as whimsical raspberry-elderberry-boysenberry undertones complete tartly fruited Flanders Red/ Lambic peculiarity.
KCBC TOMORROW NEVER PIES FRUITED SOUR
On tap at Taphouse 15, oaken Morello cherry sourness linked to leathery vanilla tannins, green grape vinegaring, subtle strawberry tartness, bitter crabapple-pomegranate conflux and salty lemon acidity above setback flaky pie crusted white wheat flouring.
FIRESTONE WALKER FRIEKY BONES
On tap at Taphouse 15, lactobacillus-soured Flanders-style kriek lambic aged in French oak foeders offers Montmorency cherry sourness to acrid barnyard leathering, vinous white wining and dill pickle brining. Slightly acidic salted lemon spritz crackles thru candied cherry finish.
PRAIRIE SEASICK CROCODILE SOUR ALE
On tap at Northern Barrell, wintry kettle soured ale blends gingery cinnamon and nutmeg spicing with abridged cranberry tartness, picking up lemony key lime bittering and oaken cherry tannins above acidulated wheat malting. In the can ’25, oblique Christmastime sour ale contrasts dry lemon limed ginger herbage, tart cranberry pucker and sharp orange bittering with less prominent cinnamon-nutmeg spicing.
HUDSON VALLEY ORANGE CREMESICLE
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, brunch-style sour ale contrasts sugar-dusted wheat flouring of a vanilla spongecake against lightly acidic lemon-limed orange souring.
HEAVY REEL THYYK: MANGO MANGONADE HEAVILY FRUITED SOUR ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, salted mango tang seeps into orange-juiced lemonade tartness and subtle vanilla creaming. A slick lemon-limed mango smoothie.
SKYGAZER TITAN TWO SOUR IPA W/ ORANGE GUAVA VANILLA
Yogurt-soured milk sugaring rendered quiet by sharp lemon-peeled orange juicing, salted guava tartness and oaken vanilla tannins. Sour-candied orange and guava tropicalia gains moderate citric acidity as creamy oated wheat milking thickens dry-hopped Mosaic setting.
ALTERNATE ENDING / DISTRICT 96 WELL OF SOULS: STAFF OF RA TRIPLE IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, zesty lemon, candied pineapple, tangy orange, honeyed peach and salted mango pick up juniper-embittered white peppering above creamy rye breading for brisk New Jersey/New York collab.
KANE WHOLE LEAF MAGIC IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, crisply dried whole leaf Citra and Cascade hops add resinous herbal florality to prickly pined grapefruit-peeled orange stead above lightly creamed malted oats base.