Toasted Vienna-malted pale ale sets wavered caramelized sweetness against slick floral-citric spicing, leafy hop astringency, gluey cardboard riffs and earthen fungi mustiness. A bit unbalanced and stylishly nebbish.
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INTERBORO BUSHBURG PILS
On tap at Growler & Gill, musky Noble-hopped pilsner plies pepper breaded cracked corn husk and straw-dried barnyard acridity to herbal lemon rot. A profuse, fulsome, German lager yeasted alternative for rustic lumberjacks.
ICARUS SUNWALKER SMOKED PILSNER
On tap at Tapastre, modest beechwood smoke affects mild pilsner malting and dry citrus nip, becoming musky at the calm finish.
CIGAR CITY GOOD GOURD
On tap at Tapastre, sweet cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie goodness rides above honeyed wheat malts. Beneath the surface, brown-sugared vanilla caking spiced up by nutmeg-clove seasoning as well as molasses-sapped gingerbread.
FAT ORANGE CAT THE RAVEN CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY PORTER
On tap at Poor Henry’s, bitter black-malted dark roast graining and cocoa-powdered dark chocolate insistence gain humble raspberry tartness. Ashen wood-charred nuttiness deepens its bitter pungency. For heartier dark ale lovers.
CARTON IRISH COFFEE IMPERIAL CREAM ALE
On tap at Beef Trust, Carton’s highly exulted Regular Coffee Imperial Cream Ale gets soaked on Irish wood and given a peppermint twist. Creamy milk-sugared coffee frontage picks up sweet vanilla-chocolate tones, wispy green creme de menthe freshener and distant cappuccino, caramel latte and espresso macchiato snips. A richly fulfilling dessert treat.
CARTON INSIDE OUR DNA OAK AGED INDIA PALE ALE
Definitive old school wood-aged Newark IPA recipe utilized for cream ale malt bill and swampy Bullion hop oiling. Oaken-whiskeyed vanilla tannins subtly ascend above sharp orange-peeled yellow grapefruit tanginess, dainty spice tingle and mild phenol bittering.
SHIP BOTTOM NYD RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT 2018
Robust dark-roast chocolate malting upends wood-dampened hop char dried out by raw molasses bittering. Oncoming black coffee sway picks up singed walnut tinge. For bold thirsts only.
BURIAL GANG OF BLADES DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
Perfectly centrist moderate-medium body unites piney tropical fruiting with creamy cereal-grained barley malting. Resinous pine-lacquered grassy hop astringency contrastingly lingers alongside juicy pineapple, peach, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, mango and clementine tang. Slight alcohol burn exists at zesty citrus-candied finish. On tap at Ambulance, tropical medium body allows zesty juicy fruited nature to spread atop resinous piney hops, malted wheat sweetness and mild floral accents. Tangy lemon-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, mango, tangerine, peach and papaya fruiting bursts forth. Funky house yeast imparts waxy grouting.
DESCHUTES JUBEL 2015 – PINOT & OREGON OAK BARREL
Complex pinot noir-influenced winter ale. Creamily caramelized toffee and brown chocolate sugaring receives affable dried fruiting contrasted quickly by sour purple grape tannins. Burgundy-licked raisin, fig and prune tartness sweetens over toasted barley malts, leaving prickly noir traces on the back of the tongue. A tad thin stylistically, yet wholly festive.
MAINE WOODS & WATERS INDIA PALE ALE
Crystalline Maine water provides brisk crisping to fruitful gold-cleared moderate-to-medium body. Vibrant floral-daubed pink grapefruit, mandarin orange, pineapple and mango tanginess gains mild orange-candied lemondrop tartness and spicy respite to contrast resinous piney hop oiling and earthy herb-nipped cannabis dankness. Delicately creamed orange marmalade froth tickles the tongue up-front while its dough-sugared barley-wheat spine pleasantly sweetens the backend. A soft, cushiony splendor.
ANCHOR BLACKBERRY DAZE IPA
“Sublimely intense” moderate-medium body overwhelms advertised blackberry tartness with sharp orange rind, grapefruit and pineapple tang that’s embittered by herbaceous dry-hopped astringency and refreshingly coniferous earthen musk. Sweet peach, mango and tangerine illusions fill out the backdrop nicely.