On tap at Taphouse 15, kettle-soured ‘cinnamon-crushed cherry pie’ may lack advertised sweet spicing but its oaken cherry salting, candied cherry tartness and cherry rhubarb twang provide lightly embittered snazziness countering just a pinch of grenadine sweetness.
Intensely sour gueuze lambic-like wild ale aged in French oak barrels plies limey lemon-squeezed acidity and dry white wine vinegaring to salted strawberry adjunct in lactic brettanomyces funk setting. Ultimately, leathery horse-blanketed acridity beats down perfumed strawberry misting.
Sharply mouth-puckering pinkish amber fruited kettle sour. Salted lemon-limed strawberry tartness gains immediate vinous green grape esters and brash gooseberry-cranberry-pomegranate bittering as distant hard cider splash and raspberry vinaigrette rasp heighten acidic sourness.
On tap at Taphouse 15, sweet-tart blueberry slushee (with mucky purplish red hue) brings French oak wine fermentation to creamy vanilla yogurt souring. Rich blueberry-blackberry propensity gains Muscat grape, pomegranate and cranberry tartness and mildly acidic lemon juicing.
On tap at Taphouse 15, lightly lactic Earl Grey tea knockoff is stylishly blurry, ill-defined and unassuming. Supposed Belgian influence lacks focus and buttery almond adjunct fades fast as herb-tinged bergamot orange oiling seems misplaced or underused.
Tart iridescently pink Torico banana ice cream knockoff may not fulfill potential sundry flavor profile but retains spirited fruiting. Creamily milk-sugared Laffy Taffy-candied tartness fades into pineapple-salted orange zesting and subtle Sangria wining for spritzy fruited Berliner Weisse.
Vinous kettle-soured Berliner weisse lets tart tangerine, peach, papaya and pink guava adjuncts gain salty lemon-squeezed acidity before concentrated orange juicing enters the fray. Serve to devoted sour heads.
Tart ginger-spiced blood orange zesting and herbal Belgian yeast combine for mildly divergent witbier. Lemony orange-candied piquancy and orange-oiled grassy hop astringency pick up wispy lemongrass minting over daintily vanilla-creamed wheat base of dryer-than-stylish moderation.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, mellow white wheat-based moderation conditioned on watermelon stays crisp as celery-watered cucumber cleanness pleats watermelon rind earthiness. A bit unassuming but not bad.
On tap at River Of Beer, waveringly ‘modified’ hefeweizen scoffs usual banana-clove insistence for lemon-soured herbal fungi and doughy wheat mold.
On tap at River Of Beer, robust Czech pilsner brings dewy peat sweetness to dried orange tartness and leafy hop astringency over pasty wheat malts.
On tap at Market Place Tavern – Brookfield, dry-hopped NEIPA gathers pineapple-juiced orange, tangerine and clementine tang for dank pine resin contrasting sugary pale malts.
