On tap at Taphouse 15, vibrantly soft-tongued yellow-marbled moderation renders Citra-Mosaic-hopped citrus sunshine for salty herbal-spiced pale malt dryness. Subdued grapefruit-orange tang holds steady.
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CITIZEN CIDER THE LAKE HOPPER
Off-center, non-traditional, Cascade-hopped cider lets pressed apple souring embellish vinous white wine esters, fizzy lemon-limed strawberry tartness, glittery champagne sparkle and pickled watermelon rind earthiness. Leaders of a dry-hopped cider craze?
KILLS BORO GIMME, GIMME PASSIONFRUIT GUAVA DESSERT SOUR
On tap at Draught Industries, lactose-aided wild ale promotes tart passionfruit-guava adjuncts and mild vanilla bean creaming for veritable “dessert sour.” Limey guava-passionfruit souring gains ancillary coconut-milked grapefruit, orange and mango tang to jazz up snazzy tropical fruiting.
OXBOW SAISON ROSE
Delicately vinous grape-skinned rosé resolve sways stainless-aged mixed culture farmhouse ale as ancillary pinot noir grape mustiness and pickled lime salting settle above musky compost soiling. At the puckered finish, green grape esters allow hard-candied cherry, strawberry and raspberry sourness as well as a wispy floral aspect to burgeon.
OXBOW ARBOREAL
Abundant lactobacillus bacteria deepens sour edge of amber-bronzed bourbon-aged farmhouse ale. Subtle dry bourbon influence seeps into vinous white wine tannins, musty oaken cherry leathering and bitter lemon peel zesting, picking up salted lime licks and tart strawberry-kiwi snips at the finish. As it warms, slight berry-peach sweetness sneaks by.
ALLAGASH HELENA FLEMISH-STYLE SOUR RED ALE
On tap at Draught Industries, Flemish red ale (a style originating in Flanders, Belgium) aged in oak wine foeders leaves vinous green grape tannins, puckered green apple bittering and oaken cherry tartness upon raspy lactobacillus acidity above musty barnyard leathering. A bustling wild ale for heady sour heads.
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Eccentric green glob-hazed sour ale lets salty lactobaccilus acidity infiltrate puckered blue raspberry rasp and tangy orange-tangerine juicing. Limey sorbet tartness seeps into Sweet-Tart candied berry compote finish. Uniquely designed lactose-driven gooey green gunk.
BOLERO SNORT BLUEBERRY’S MOOTHIE
Blueberry Smoothie knockoff works milk-sugared vanilla extract and salty lemon-limed bitterness into tart blueberry pucker for creamily salted yogurt-like setting. Soda-like blueberry sweetness contrasts highly acidic nature as sour navel orange juicing and wispy cranberry snips ripen ‘berry’ goodness.
BOLERO SNORT TANGERINE’S MOOTHIE
Tangerine Smoothie knockoff becomes increasingly tart as high lactose milk acidity and salted lemon pucker gain grapefruit-embittered frozen concentrated orange juicing. Sweet ‘n sour ambrosial tangerine continuance gains slight vanilla-creamed sweetness at the citric-steadied finish.
TWO TON FIELD ARTILLERY IMPERIAL STOUT WITH LACTOSE
Luxuriously rich stout exudes creamy dark chocolate richness and dried cocoa sustenance above maple-sapped oats. Black coffee, vanilla and anise illusions touch down alongside bruised black cherry tartness and prune-stewed fig stead, deepening its bittersweet mocha foundation.
TWO TON WROUGHT GOLD BLOND ALE WITH BLOOD ORANGE
Tangy, tart and spicy blood orange adjunct goes all the way for resilient hazy amber blond ale. Prominent blood orange blast receives lusty tangerine juicing, citron-perfumed English ale yeast misting, candied baby aspirin tartness and floral orange blossom wisps over delicate French-breaded crystal malting. Spritzy summertime fun.
HUBBARD’S CAVE VANILLA IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Draught Industries, luxuriously bold lactose-aided Imperial Stout aged on vanilla beans invites fudgy molasses-sapped chocolate sugaring to bourbon-soaked vanilla creaming sweetened further by marshmallow, toasted coconut, creme brulee and bruised black cherry illusions for a mind-numbingly decadent nightcap.
