Another wordily monikered Evil Twin brew. This time it’s a hazy golden yellowed triple NEIPA with a lightly creamed head that’s smooth as silk. Soft-toned sourly tart lemony yellow grape tannins meet yellow grapefruit, tangerine and papaya tropicalia as floral white peppered herbage wispily enters the fray.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, complex viscous purple reddish tropical fruited elixir combines mildly coconut-candied watermelon, raspberry and passionfruit adjuncts in chewy marshmallow setting. Tart eye-squinting fruited souring picks up salted mango-guava-pineapple licks as sweet watermelon, raspy raspberry and perfumed passionfruit flurries enrapture.
Fuzzy peach tartness rasps alongside sharply sour lemon-limed pucker contrasted by less prominent cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Vinous green grape daub and oaken vanilla tannins add to moderate acidity of peachy pastry dessert.
On tap at Taphouse 15, obtuse sour wheat ale re-creates Fruity Pebbles rice cereal as Sweet-Tart Jolly Rancher-candied tartness enjoins slightly soured milk-sugared vanilla marshmallow creaming. In the distance, salty strawberry soured pucker gains mild concentrated orange juicing.
On tap at Taphouse 15, tartly sour blackberry-cherry conflux and mild blackcurrant adjunct reach lactic milk-sugared vanilla tannins. Teasing orange-tangerine tang, plastique blueberry pomegranate souring and pureed cherry rhubarb tartness struggle to integrate beneath currant-berried surface.
Slushy Smoothie Skygazer collab combines kettle-soured Water Colors’ tartly blueberry-pied chocolate resonance and marshmallow creaming with fruit-looped Lily Of The Valley for mildly acidic, viscous magenta-hued, pastry-like dessert. Ample chocolate blueberry cake/ chocolate blueberry cheesecake resilience gains tart raspberry, boysenberry and blackberry compote influence.
On tap at Taphouse 15, sour tropical fruited gose conditioned on guava, strawberry and lemon puree retains tart lime salted lactose acidity and recalls ‘Pink Starburst and freshly-squeezed lemonade.’ Lemony guava salting overruns strawberry rhubarb snag above dainty straw wheat base.
On tap at Rebar – Lodi, extensively dry-hopped Old School West Coast IPA has become extremely popular nationwide. Subdued lemony grapefruit peel bittering joins tangy navel orange, tangerine and clementine conflux and mild pineapple, guava and mango illusions as buttery pale malt sugaring spreads all over delicate floral-daubed spicing. Sticky piney hop resin emerges at affable citric-spiced finish.
On tap at Taphouse 15, lupulin-forward collaboration with Other Half features diverse hop melange as grassy Saaz-hopped herbage, dry Simcoe-hopped wooding and limey Nelson Sauvin-hopped green grape, gooseberry and papaya licks pick up plastique pale malt gluiness. Mild grapefruit, pineapple and tangerine tang stays distant.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, easygoing beige golden hazed double dry-hopped NEIPA promotes mildly salted lemon zesting, tangy orange peel sweetness and tartly sour guava-gooseberry conflux above delicate wheated oats base. Tropical-bound New Zealand-derived Nelson Sauvin/ Motueka hop combo connects for juicy fruited moderation.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, mellow frothily cream-headed NEIPA lets brisk grapefruit-peeled orange pith bittering and mild pineapple, tangerine and mango tanginess stay low key as resinous pine tones and herbal nips secure the clean mineral watered pale malt bottom.
On tap at Taphouse 15, spectral tropical fruited NEIPA blends Vic Secret-hopped grape tannins with floral-daubed Motueka/Rakau/Wakutu-hopped lime zesting and tart passionfruit-guava-pineapple zips. Lemony orange Pez-like tartness assumes control at the midst as mild tangerine, mango and peach illusions plus mild cat-pissed acidity saddle dank earthen bottom gently buffered by white wheated pilsner malting.
