On tap at Ambulance, mildly creamed honey adjunct lightly affects floral-perfumed orange zesting and gentle coriander spicing of white wheat-based moderation. Mead-like dried honey stead welcomes desiccated orange tartness below the sweeter surface.
Category Archives: Beers A-Z
FIFTH HAMMER CLOAK SPELL DARK LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, one of the more robust and best designed dark lagers brings sugar-spiced dried fruiting to dewy peat mossing and earthen truffle dryness for distinctly rounded profile. Smooth foeder aging relegates some hop impact but heightens its mocha malt bill.
ESKER HART MALVA
On tap at Taphouse 15, salty citrus vibe and floral hibiscus-lavender adjunct reach oaken vanilla bean tannins. Beneath the surface, lemon-candied lollipop tartness picks up mild herbage. Arcanely offbeat.
EAST END PENNSYLVANIA LOOPHOLE 5 COCONUT LIME GOSE
Dryly sour coconut-milked liming saturates salty coriander seeded spicing as well as tertiary pineapple, guava and gooseberry tartness and oaken vanilla tannins. Limey coconut mojito offshoot minus the sweet rum.
ORION THE DRAFT
Quintessential semi-dry Okinawan lager maintains richer rice-grained thrust than most lighter bodied canned/bottled Jap draughts. Lemony floral-spiced orange peel whim and sourdough restraint also separate Orion’s lager from Asahi-Sapporo-Kirin competitors, but corn-dried pilsner malting countering muted hop musk beneath the surface will appeal to less discriminating mainstreamers.
KOSHIHIKARI ECHIGO BEER
Clean gold-cleared rice lager (circa 2022) with zesty lemon spritz flinging thru pilsner-malted toasted French bread spine depleted somewhat by cardboard base that disrupts pasty rice sweetness.
KOHOLA RED SAND AMBER ALE
Slick Maui moderation. Toasted amber graining, peaty Fuggle hop earthiness and dank cellar fungi must linger longer than mild citrus bittering contrasting caramelized dried fruiting, retaining a tad too much astringency.
NARRAGANSETT FRESH CATCH CITRA SESSION ALE
Sunnily sessionable light-bodied Citra-hopped blonde placates mild orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and lemony passionfruit-pineapple zesting with wispy herbal musk before papery French breaded pale malting gets gluey.
FIDDLEHEAD JUAN RICARDO MEXICAN LIME LAGER
On tap at Growler & Gill, dry light-bodied Mexican lager drapes mild agave syrup atop dehydrated lime brining, spritzy lemon souring and wispy herbage as its corny Tortilla base flattens.
ASLIN ESPERANTE MEXICAN LAGER
On tap at Growler & Gill, easygoing Mexican-styled pale lager lets light peppery herbage caress mild lemon liming, grassy hop astringency and wispy floral aspect over papery grain musk.
ROSS SHREWSBURY LAGER
Spicy dried fruiting, mild cocoa nuttiness and mossy peat composting stay atop amber-grained Vienna malt sweetness of stylishly modified/ advanced amber lager.
SINGLECUT SOMEWHERE I CAN WALK ALONE COUNTRY LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, thin aluminum yellowed lager lets implied rusticity take hold as dry hay-like barnyard musk and musty herbal restraint retain light earthen acridity securing mild lemon peel zesting above delicate whole grain breading.
