Subtle rum barrel aging provides dissipating toasted sugaring to contrast tart pineapple-juiced oaken cherry and oaken vanilla adjuncts and vinous white-wined green grape esters. Leathery lactobacillus acidity escalates sour edge as dry bourbon wisps enjoin cidery pineapple-cherry finish.
On tap at Ambulance, lactic pastry-like Smoothie allows creamy milk-sugared vanilla sweetness to inundate yogurt-soured raspberry, blackberry and blueberry tartness as well as salted lime, candied pineapple and oaken cherry whims over raw wheat bed. Mild blueberry acidity picks up some unwanted mildewy plastered lacquer.
On tap at Ambulance, pleasant dry-hopped Citra variant brings juicy grapefruit, clementine, tangerine and mango tanginess plus muted lemony lime bittering to sugary pale malting.
Vibrant lactic NEIPA enters the fray with juicy yellow grapefruit salting and muted lemony mandarin orange spritz above delicate white-breaded oated wheat base in white-headed hazy gold setting. Ambrosial lemon meringue, orange marmalade, pineapple tart and candied fruit piquancy plus sedate passionfruit-guava souring pleat mildest pine bittering contrasting lightly frothed vanilla creaming. Compact roundedness.
On tap at Capitol Craft – East Hanover, efficient Lord Of The Rings-inspired NEIPA stays soft as bright lemony yellow grapefruit bittering contrasts tangy orange-peeled pineapple, mango and tangerine sweetness over dry pale malting. Lacks stylish white wined New Zealand hop aspect, though.
On tap at Capitol Craft – East Hanover, lemony bergamot orange and tangerine tang lets light clay waxing intimidate white-peppered lemongrass spell above wild honeyed oats-flaked malt spine.
Juicy year-round Citra-Mosaic-hopped NEIPA goes right down the stylistic middle route as moderated lemony yellow grapefruit bittering joins sweet orange-peeled mango, pineapple and peach tanginess to pick up dryly resinous pine tones for crisply clean refresher.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, durable Massachusetts/Maine NEIPA collab serenades lemony orange-peeled pineapple, peach and grapefruit tang with lacquered pine tones and floral-spiced pale malts. Lacks sour guava-gooseberry tropicality of slightly better stylistic New England moderations.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, streamlined Citra-Mosaic-hopped tropical fruiting promotes zesty orange-peeled grapefruit bittering but unwanted waxy claying penetrates papery oated wheat malting.
On tap at Ambulance, frothily vanilla creamed hazy golden beige NEIPA lets salted yellow grapefruit tanginess, lemon curd tartness, spritzy orange oiling and green grape tannins stabilize in lactic yogurt-soured setting.
On tap at Growler & Gill, gleaming NEIPA plies lightly embittered grapefruit-peeled pineapple zesting, peachy mango-guava-papaya tang and mildly lemon-soured passionfruit, green grape, lychee and dragonfruit tartness to heavily oated wheat base. Spritzy tropical fruiting latently receives salty pine-hopped floral daubs.
On tap at Growler & Gill, slightly offbeat NEIPA prods zesty lemony grapefruit bittering, subtle white-wined green grape souring and orange sorbet tartness with white peppered herbage and floral lavender perfuming over musky dry grain base.
