On tap at Ambulance, restrained Calypso hop tropicalia desiccates moderate earthen barnyard pungency. Dried-out mango, papaya and kumquat illusions receive light straw-hay parch.
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OXBOW SPACE COWBOY COUNTRY ALE
On tap at Ambulance, nonchalant saison (sessionable 4% ABV light body posing as a biere de garde) with toned-down lemon spritz, mild oats-dried graining, pasty pale malting and watery celery vegetalia seems nebulous. Nothing bad, just lacks overall depth and clarity.
LIC BEER PROJECT DUTCH KILLS KOLSCH
On tap at Ambulance, cleanly refreshing kolsch offers lively lemon zest to light yellow grapefruit tang and mild floral bouquet above delicate earthen hop bittering. Summery stuff.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS NIGHT SCHOOL HOPPY BLACK LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, hybridized black lager combines black-malted dark chocolate roast with dankly resinous hop char. Minor soy, cocoa and day-old coffee illusions drift off. Serve to schwarzbier fans.
OXBOW LUPPOLO PILSNER
On tap at Ambulance, rangy Italian-styled pilsner relies on dry buckwheat and musky spelt-like malting to enhance mildly spiced lemon-rotted tangerine tartness above biscuit-y spine. Light citric hop (‘luppolo’) astringency gains resinous grassy earthiness. Unspecific Italian heritage.
BEAR REPUBLIC DOUBLE AUGHT PILSNER
Crisply clean Czech-styled pils brings sugar cookie sweetness to honeyed cereal graining, biscuit pilsner malting and peppery hop spicing. Salty carbolic spritz allows lemon meringue tartness to fill out finely tuned moderation.
BLUE MOON CAPPUCCINO OATMEAL STOUT
Pleasing decaf coffee roast tops dried cocoa subsidy and sugared oats base. Sharp hop char contrasts cappuccino-laden caramel, vanilla and milked espresso sweetness below the thin surface. Phenol acridity lowers overall impact.
DU CLAW QUICK START MY HEART STRAWBERRY MILK STOUT
Though its bittersweet strawberry adjunct gets buried beneath the syrupy black chocolate milking, creamy caramel-burnt dark cocoa subsidy and tertiary coffee roast, rich sweet stout never fails to arouse tastebuds as a fine dessert treat. Milk Dud-like midst picks up modest vanilla, molasses and nutty nougat nuances to champion its mighty mocha mass above mild hop-charred bittering.
BROTHERTON IMPERIAL OATMEAL PORTER
“Heavy-handed oats” bill picks up light wood char to deepen black-malted dark chocolate richness. In the midst, dark-roast coffee upends black cherry puree tartness and musky earthen residue. On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, dry dark chocolate frontage gained mild nut sear over sedate maple oats base.
TERRAPIN SMOKE ON THE PORTER
Dry Baltic porter issues beechwood-smoked black chocolate malting and French oak licks to ashen nutty bittering. Oncoming vanilla-creamed dark fruiting ransacks chicory-seared cedar char and light Band-Aid astringency. Drifting cocoa nibs influence adds to nutty chocolate nature.
GLENMERE FARMHOUSE ALE
Superfine saison contrasts lemon-soured orange rot tartness and raw-grained herbal notions with lightly creamed candi-sugared pale malts. Rustic horse-blanketed wheat straw, hay and alfalfa dryness digs deep into latent Chardonnay wining.
GLENMERE PENNINGS BROWN ALE
First-rate brown ale regales dark-roast chocolate malting with capacious hazelnut-walnut tones and tucked-in black cherry snips, picking up tangy grapefruit-orange illusions at the nutty mocha finish.