On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, lemony yellow grapefruit bittering affixes spritzy orange rind dryness over mild vanilla creamed oats, picking up salty guava-pineapple illusions, sweet berry snips and wafting floral tones.
On tap at Taphouse 15, soft serve chocolate-vanilla swirl undone by rich semi-sweet dark cocoa prod. Creamy Madagascar vanilla stead and milk-sugared coffee sweetness vie for position but oncoming dark-roast hop bittering seems misplaced.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, Mister Softee IPA variant utilizes Motueka, Nectaron and Citra cryo hops in lightly milk sugared tropical fruit setting. Subtle vanilla-daubed oats creaming serenaded by lemony grapefruit, navel orange, passionfruit, guava and passionfruit tropicalia. Somewhat tart but not nearly as sweetly ambrosial as richer milkshake suds.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, zesty NEIPA utilizes Peacharine, Nelson Sauvin and Motueka hops to maintain dry tropical fruited inertia. Tart gooseberry, guava, passionfruit and lychee succulence given mild oats creaming as dank pine tones and rummy vodka spiriting sink in.
Dry New Zealand-derived Nectaron hops forward mild white grape, yellow grapefruit and Meyer lemon bittering to mild oated wheat base. But compost-wafted sour grape esters and obscure ‘peach soda, pineapple nectar and fruited candied’ illusions lose favor for wayward double dry-hopped IPA styling.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, brisk Citra-hopped Canadian NEIPA lets lemon-pinched grapefruit bittering, pineapple-candied orange tartness, tannic white grape esters, mild guava sway and timid tangerine tang (plus a hint of pine and pinch of herbs) carry thru to its lightly creamed oats base.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, cryo-hopped (Simcoe-Citra-Mosaic) ‘hazy IPA’ via Canada tucks orange-candied pineapple and peach tang into floral perfumed sweetness contrasting mild earthen pine musk over sweet pale-malted oats creaming.
Easygoing off-dry India Pale Ale with bittersweet lemony pineapple, grapefruit and mango tropicalia caressing mild piney hop resin and light floral herbage. Streamlined stylistically, but never slick.
Not as good as Germany’s premier Paulaner and Franziskaner hefes, lacking convincing banana-clove thrust. Sputtering banana bubblegum sugaring and gingery nutmeg-cardamom spicing (and herbal residue) lost amongst mildly creamed vanilla froth, leaving feeble raw-honeyed lemony orange musk. But its eggy sourdough breading retains proper hefeweizen luster.
Fizzy lemon-soured herbal frontage outdoes stylish banana-clove sweetness atop white wheat base to ‘crisp, dry finish’ of filtered German-styled Japanese krystalweiss.
On tap at Taphouse 15, brisk orange-peeled coriander spicing given sour lemon spritz, gingery lemongrass snap and mild floral snips over dry oated white wheat base of traditional Belgian-styled witbier.
Muted apricot stead overwhelmed by salty lemon lime acidity and sour green grape esters provided by vinous brettanomyces yeast. Mild Band-aid astringency lurks beneath lactic barnyard rusticity as wispy floral, strawberry and rhubarb nuances waver.
