Knocking off a ginger snap cookie to good effect, dry-spiced winter warmer allows molasses-sugared cinnamon, clove and allspice seasoning to rise above its honeyed biscuit pale malt base. Minty fern influence and herbal lemon snip appear at underwhelming phenolic finish.
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GUN HILL SIDE SQUEEZE
On tap at Bronx Alehouse, mildly dry farmhouse-styled grisette aged on French oak-barreled Sauvignon Blanc lets floral-herbed tart fruiting linger subtly above smooth mineral-grained white wheat malting (reminiscent of a light pilsner). Kaffir limed white wine souring gains delicate ‘Asian pear, gooseberry and lychee’ illusions at the phenol-spiced midst. Serve to saison, gose and Berliner Weiss fanatics.
GUN HILL TRIED AND TRUE HARVEST LAGER
BOLERO SNORT MIDNIGHT MOOAU SMOKED AMBER ALE W/ BROWN SUGAR & PINEAPPLE
Initial rauchbier-like peat-kilned smokiness gains brown-sugared pineapple adjunct and honeyed amber graining. Grilled pineapple tartness picks up orange-candied red apple, red grape and tangerine tang that subverts its peaty wood-burnt bog. An offbeat hybridized peculiarity.
CZIG MEISTER THE GUNSMITH SMOKED LAGER
The American craft beer market may be thriving, but rarely has any brewer been able to replicate the meat-cured, kiln-smoked rauchbier style the Germans invented. And this quaint “maple caramel bacon beer” is no exception. Its initial beechwood-smoked grain soiling dissipates as the syrupy maple malting gains cloying nature that contrasts an unwelcomed lemon wedge souring. Unbalanced and underdeveloped.
PEAK ORGANIC SWEET TARTS MAINE BLUEBERRY SOUR ALE
Lemon seltzer fizziness disrupts tart blueberry souring of quaint Sweet-Tarts candy knockoff. Blanched blueberry waver recedes with low lactic acidity calmly affecting mild rosé effervescence and wispy cranberry pucker above light mineral graining.
FUNKY BUDDAH PINEAPPLE BEACH BLONDE ALE
Blandly laid-back tropical moderation fails to properly integrate tartly embittered pineapple juiciness to citric hop splotch and frail pale malt spine. Phenol lemon-spiced soapiness disrupts powdered pineapple-candied tartness abruptly, leaving its finish in nebulous territory. On tap at 3.14 Pi, juicy pineapple souring gained eye-squinting lemon lime tartness and wispy floral-spiced pilsner malting.
SUSQUEHANNA BLUEBERRY THRILL
Affable sweet-tart blueberry jam syruping maintains sugary resolve above honeyed Graham Cracker spine for fruit-ripened pinkish headed amber-hued moderation. Blueberry puree continuance gains slight red cherry wisp. A fine blueberry-candied summer shandy for fruit ale fiends as well as soda lovers.
SUSQUEHANNA RAZZ THE ROOF
Cloying raspberry shandy never hits the spot like Susquehanna’s Blueberry Thrill does. Saccharine-like raspberry sweetness gains wavered cherry-orange-peach-tangerine conflux, lemony rosé tinge and medicinal cherry whim riddled by gummy glutinous gunk.
TWO ROADS PERSIAN LIME GOSE
On tap at Beef Trust, tartly brined Margarita spinoff stays refreshingly clean, effervescent and light-bodied. Limey salt-rimmed tequila cocktail substitute usurps sour lactose acidity above meager flaked rye malting.
FIRE ISLAND SEA SALT ALE
Atlantic sea salt adds briny piquancy to lively lemon spritz of crisply dry gose-like blonde ale. Vinous white grape souring deepens lemon pucker over mineral grain-watered salted cracker base.
FIRE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE AMBER ALE
Random amber ale pleasantry contrasts mild caramel toasting against citric-soured phenol spicing and musty grain resin. Fading caramel-sugared honey nut sweetness restrained by latent alkaline astringency.
