Briny oyster-shelled texture adds creamy resilience to black-malted dark chocolate and dried cocoa thrust. Tarry Blackstrap molasses bittering and ashen nuttiness deepen salty mocha template to its mild maple oatmeal spine.
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CIGAR CITY OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIE BROWN ALE
Exacting its expansive brown-sugared oatmeal raisin cookie promise, rich brown ale also regales cinnamon-toasted gingerbread, bourbon-licked vanilla bean and cookie dough subtleties as well as tertiary coffee cake, PB&J and molasses nuances. Mildly coarse hop roast underscores chewy chocolate-chipped oatmeal raisin cookie sweetness. Perfect afternoon snack.
RUSHING DUCK UNIRONIC TWEED
On tap at Growler & Gill, slow sippin’ English-styled barleywine reveals rustically dry complexion thanks to soily earthen dewiness and reedy wood tones contributed to Black Dirt malting. But its caramelized maple syruping adds contrasting sweetness alongside tertiary mango, peach and orange illusions, giving 10% ABV medium body its proper counterbalance.
3 STARS 77 SEVILLES DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, celebrating ’77 Cadillac Seville with a double dry-hopped IPA, streamlined moderate-to-medium body brings mellow yellow grapefruit, mandarin orange, white peach and nectarine tang to herbal-tinged grassy hop astringency.
FAT ORANGE CAT LAUNCH IMPERIAL IPA
On tap at Poor Henry’s, winning New England-styled IPA brings semi-complex mango-soured orange peel bittering to the fore as tropical passionfruit, guava and peach illusions gain wispy piney hop bittering, floral-daubed herbal notions and light lemon twist.
ASLIN UNICORN VOMIT
On tap at Ambulance, busily hybridized bronze-hazed “triple” IPA brings sharp grapefruit-peeled orange pith bittering to cucumber-watered watermelon rind adjunct. Dry pale malt foundation firmly grounds bitter citrus-influenced watermelon frontage and subtle mango-guava-kiwi tropicalia. Possibly the most adventurous and rich watermelon-fronted fruit ale circa 2018.
ICARUS POWER JUICER IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
Easygoing Northeast-styled IPA with briskly clean-watered freshness offers zesty orange-peeled yellow grapefruit tang, mild resinous hop bittering and wispy lactose acidity above delicate oats-dried wheat spine. Spritzy lemon licks brush up against subsidiary mango-peach-pineapple tropicalia. A sunshiny citric hop-dolloped moderation.
WALLENPAUPACK LAKE HAZE #3 DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
Delightful copper-hazed medium body brings tangy tangerine essence to the fore, outmaneuvering more stylishly rigid orange-peeled yellow grapefruit and pineapple respite. Sharp citric hop bittering contrasts and underscores juicy tangerine sweetness. Effervescent fruit ale for summertime gazing.
WALLENPAUPACK LARGEMOUTH INDIA PALE ALE
Mildly embittered yellow grapefruit peel essence and zesty lemon perk sweetened by navel orange, peach, pineapple and tangerine tang as sunshiny Citra hop tropicalia outdoes piney Chinook-Simcoe-hopped herbal nip.
BURIAL FIRESTICK INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, sessionable pale-yellowed moderate-to-medium body plies dainty yellow grapefruit, mandarin orange and tangerine tang to mild barley-flaked oats and serene piney hop bittering.
FLYING MONKEYS LIVE TRANSMISSION MILKSHAKE IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, inspiring lactose-sugared IPA relays vanilla milkshake sweetness to stylish orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, tangerine and peach juiciness plus mild piney hop resin. Delicate coconut-toasted white tea influence induces perfumed shaving cream waft that slightly redirects its Creamsickle-like vanilla-sugared orange tanginess. A fine dessert-related IPA hybrid.
(3RD ROCK) MULLIGAN’S CRUSHED IPA
‘Summery’ IPA renders mellow blood orange-pureed tartness for lemony orange rind bitterness and brisk grapefruit-peeled tangerine, pineapple and peach tang. Light piney hop astringency beckons (alongside possible chamomile tea wisp) as zesty lemon-wedged blood orange adjunct lingers softly.
