On tap at Seven Lakes Station, mild farmhouse funk and botanical juniper-tipped bittering regale yellow fruited herbal spicing of brisk saison. Lemony grapefruit tartness picks up stylishly Nordic rose hip, honeyed heather and rhubarb nuances.
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FIRESTONE WALKER BRETTA WEISSE
On tap at Poor Henry’s, mild Berliner Weiss aged in French oak foeders brings tannic white grape acidity and salted lemon lime tartness to dry barnyard acridity above easygoing sourdough malts. Sour-milked yogurt spurt reinforces stylish citrus salinity.
GRIMM CHERRY RASPBERRY POP! BERLINER WEISS
Sassy Berliner Weiss takes lactic yogurt-like milk sugaring and gives it a lemony cherry-raspberry tartness prickled by muskily tannic champagne fizziness. Snazzy cherry-raspberry piquancy gains equally sour cranberry, pomegranate and crab apple illusions while light oaken acridity spreads to rustic barnyard leathering underneath the sour-candied surface.
EVIL TWIN B IS FOR BLUEBERRY
On tap at Poor Henry’s, tart blueberry essence underlined by sea-salted lemon lime souring for hybridized gose. Puckered cranberry and green apple sourness plus vinous green grape esters deplete blueberry goodness a tad.
HILL FARMSTEAD MARIE
On tap at Ambulance, muskily dry helles lager embeds raw-honeyed maize, wet-grained cellar mustiness and herbal hop spicing into upfront sour yellow fruiting all the way to its gummy sourdough base. Horse-blanketed straw, hay and alfalfa rusticity deepens finishing acridity.
JACK’S ABBY SAXONY VIENNA STYLE LAGER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, musky grain malts, mild Bavarian hops, delicate sourdough riffs and subtle herbal notions saddle tingly orange spicing to honeyed biscuit spine for amiable moderation. An understated gem.
MAGNIFY HOPPY LAGER
On tap at Poor Henry’s, musky lager fermented in Italian oak foeders loads dank herbal graining upon pungent lemon rot and desiccated orange tartness. White-wined Hallertau Blanc hops, tropical Nelson Sauvin hops and aromatic floral-spiced Crystal hops blend well.
KCBC JANIAK MANIAC PILS
On tap at Ambulance, muskily dank-grained Czech pilsner stays pungent as maize-dried barley, oats and spelt increase sourdough malting above resinous herbal hops. In the recess, floral-spiced lemondrops appear.
PRAIRIE ARTISAN CHRISTMAS BOMB
On tap at Growler & Gill, variegated Christmas spices permeate rich and creamy (13% ABV) Imperial Stout. Wintry cinnamon-sugared nutmeg and ginger spicing decorates cacao-nibbed coffee adjuncts. Creamy vanilla icing covers fudgy Black Forest cake center. After a few sips, delightful chocolate mint cookie sweetness seeps into mild ancho chili peppering for Mexican chocolate-spiced entourage. Mesmerizingly complex.
EVIL TWIN YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY
Curiously hybridized Mexican-styled stout lets milky-textured Black Forest cake fudging flirt with tangerine-peeled bruised cherry, raspberry puree and blueberry tartness above recessive cedar-burnt hop char, leaving its wispy pasilla mixe chili peppering in the lurch. Molasses-draped dark chocolate syrup drapes the dark fruited center as honeyed cocoa nibs adjunct fights for space.
GOOSE ISLAND BOURBON COUNTY STOUT – NORTHWOODS
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, opulent bourbon-barreled Imperial Stout (13.2% ABV) utilizes syrupy blueberry juice and marzipan-like almond extract to concoct (nearly cloy) dark chocolate dessert treat. Super-sweet blueberry brandy, blueberry puree and blueberry amaretto illusions gain sugary rum-spiced cherry coughdrop stickiness for chocolate-fudged sweet-toothed liqueur.
GRIMM ICING ON THE CAKE IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, luscious dessert stout loads creamy vanilla icing atop sugared cacao nibs at the mighty dark-roasted mocha entry (disguising ample 10% ABV). Fudged brownie richness and flourless chocolate cake finish gain nutty remnant.
