On tap at Growler & Gill, dry barrel-aged vanilla bean adjunct picks up gentle bourbon warmth and dark cocoa caress of initial Brewers Reserve stout, replacing original’s brown-sugared dried fruiting with thick black treacle-syruped vanilla resonance. Oak charred whiskey tones, black chocolate bittering and milked espresso nuttiness enrich full bodied template.
On tap at Growler & Gill, milk-sugared coconut toasting and hazelnut pasting stick to milk chocolatey Graham Cracker base of frothy tan-headed mahogany-bodied sweet stout, leaving tertiary black cherry, black grape and date illusions.
Pleasant soft-toned brown ale aged in Laird’s Apple Brandy coalesces brown chocolate-malted Irish coffee creaming with caramelized dried fruiting and subtle chestnut-almond nips – recalling a lighter barleywine. Sharp apple-spiced raisin, date and prune subtleties receive mild black peppering, contrasting candied dried fruit finish.
Murkily lacquered pinkish mauve fruited Smoothie lets perfumed Pez-candied strawberry tartness receive vanilla beaned marshmallow sweetness overtaken by sour lemon-puckered white wine esters as mild pomegranate, cider and rhubarb illusions also seep into sea-salted acidulated malting.
Murkily rust clouded Smoothie with yogurt-milked thickness lets wafting orange-concentrated blueberry pomegranate lacquering and tannic pencil shavings disrupt salty mango, oaken cherry and toasted coconut adjuncts in lightly vinous salting. Distant red-wined Giacobazzi and Chianti illusions seeping thru the uneven, ammonia-daubed mix.
On tap at Ambulance, ‘Tart’ sour ale valiantly knocks off baked blueberry muffin as cake-battered vanilla frosting and powder-sugared dusting coat sweet ‘n sour blueberry adjunct countered by mild limey acidity. A blueberry cobbler substitute. One of the highest rated fruited sours in the country.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, less creamy smoothie sour maintains fresh-squeezed lemonade tartness sweetened by slick blueberry sugaring and salty Pez-like candied tartness. Refreshing summertime fodder for soft drink quenchers.
Sassy fruit-pied Smoothie affixes creamy milk-sugared vanilla to pureed black cherry tartness and cocktailed blackberry pomegranate mule. Over time, sharp concentrated orange juicing embitters and subdues cherry blackberry pie theme as mild raspberry tartness and sweet banana swerve arrive.
On tap at Growler & Gill, Brunch-styled sour IPA variant lets puckering lemon-limed white peach tartness gain lightly salted hard cider acidity as tertiary apricot, white grapefruit and mango illusions waver. Candied peach finish retains sharp Citra hop sunniness.
On tap at Growler & Gill, Brunch-styled Citra-hopped sour IPA with tart raspberry and bitter blueberry adjuncts gains briny lemon-limed acidity (and mild ammonia wisp). Below mixed berry surface, distant pink lemonade sweetness contrasts faraway grapefruit, pomegranate and guava souring.
On tap at Growler & Gill, sweetly creamed Brazil Plainifolia vanilla seeps inside mango orange creamsicle licks, peaches and cream riffs, mild guava-papaya-passionfruit snips and ripe nectarine-tangerine blip (as well as mild bitter pining) for truly tropical intensity. At milk-sugared finish, waxy fruit cocktail tanginess scurries thru vanilla milkshake richness of impressive math-celebrative hazy golden milkshake IPA.
On tap at Ambulance, sunshiny Citra-Mosaic-hopped IPA goes for Orange Crush soda audience as lightly vanilla creamed blood orange and mandarin orange adjuncts (plus tertiary pineapple, grapefruit and tangerine tanginess) bring juicy fruited vibrancy to citric-candied finish of ‘crushable’ soft drink (with well-hidden 8.2% ABV).
