Pureed raspberry, cranberry and cherry tartness consumes mildly creamed fruited wheat ale. Soda-like fizz perks up berry-cherry frontage as well as subsidiary cucumber-watered watermelon, pomegranate and strawberry rhubarb tease.
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APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SPOATY OATY PALE ALE
Decent moderate-bodied pale ale lets mild lemony orange-peach tang and delicate spiciness settle alongside lightly lingered celery-watered hop astringency. Pastry-like pale malts and sugar-glassed cardboard oats play backup.
NEW BELGIUM FAT TIRE BELGIAN STYLE ALE
Streamlined Belgian-American wheat ale hybrid brings Fat Tire’s mildly creamed caramel-toasted amber ale styling to mild dubbel-like dried fruiting. Understated sugarplum, raisin and date spicing tingles wheat wafer spine. Needs richer template and roundedness.
MOTHER EARTH BLACKBEARD’S BOOTY HOPPY BLONDE ALE
Despite “hoppy” tag, peppered lemon licks and mild grapefruit-pineapple tang stay restrained above doughy French-breaded pale malting. Mild Amarillo-Chinook hop astringency and serene floral spicing provide mellow backdrop.
ANDERSON VALLEY SUMMER SOLSTICE CERVEZA CREMA – NITRO
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, superb nitro version of highly respected summer ale heightens softly creamed éclair mouthfeel and kettle corn-buttered caramelization while lessening tropical fruiting. Mild lemon meringue, mandarin orange, white peach and fig illusions delicately linger behind.
WALLENPAUPACK PAUPACK CREAM ALE
Sedate yellow-cleared dry body with wheat-crackered corn malts, musty spelt graining and grassy hop astringency gains spritzy lemon rot souring. Will please avid cream ale lovers.
FLYING FISH ONSHORE LAGER
Crisply clean moderate-bodied lager maintains lightly creamed pastry-like cereal grain sugaring and biscuity pilsner malting to envelop lemony orange-melon briskness while mild grassy hop astringency stays firm. Sessionable summer excellence.
SIERRA BLANCA OUTLAW LAGER
Beginning with caramel-spiced glass sugaring and unrealized citric splotch, cardboard-like lagered steam beer reaches bland grassy-hopped raw honey finish.
DOUBLE NICKEL VIENNA STYLE LAGER
Dire orange-soured lemon rot and wavered green apple tartness reach soggy doughy malt base of indistinct moderate-bodied Vienna lager.
CARTON SIT DOWN SON PALE LAGER
On tap at Poor Henry’s, stellar pale lager retains crisply clean straw-grained minerality and musky floral-hopped lemon zesting above bready pilsner malting. Refreshingly easygoing light body is classic.
SHMALTZ PASTRAMI PILSNER
Spritzy celery-watered lemon peppering guards nifty horseradish pastrami pastiche above cracked black pepper breading for quirky Czech pils novelty. Kosher-salted rye-like caraway seed adjunct stays back.
KENT FALLS DANNY BOY PILSNER
On tap at Ambulance, mild yellow fruiting, subtle pilsner malting and grassy hop astringency affect simple German-styled pilsner. A pleasurable lawnmower beer.
