On tap at Biggie’s, laidback ‘grapefruit session ale’ stays stylishly soft-toned without getting unassuming. Tangy yellow grapefruit zest recedes as orange, pineapple, peach and mango dalliances come forth over gentle lemony hop astringency and light pilsner malting.
Alluring gold-hazed ‘blonde ale’ with tantalizing Tanzanian French roast coffee and Ghanian cocoa nibs placed over fizzy citric spritz. Capacious creamed coffee continuance dominates dark-roast chocolate subtlety over subtle hop-oiled cola nuttiness. Like a coffee spritzer!
Marrying zesty IPA citrus fruiting with dry-hopped mango and apricot adjuncts as well as sweet ginger herbage, well-designed medium body will appeal to expansive tropical palates. Candied mango, peach, fig and melon sugaring and sweet orange peel dollop deepened by honeyed pale malting. Just a tad slick.
“Sessionable, yet assertive” moderate-to-medium body loads sharp India Pale Ale fruiting to grassy hop astringency and biscuit-y pale malting. Zesty orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, peach, tangerine and lemon tang stays brisk as floral undertones sweeten the front end to contrast oncoming alcohol insistence.
On tap at River Of Beer, succulent mango-juiced wheat ale delivers capacious stone fruiting over honeyed Graham Cracker sweetness and floral-perfumed hop splotch as lightly phenol carbolic spritz adds lemony seltzer-like tartness to latently downplay tangy mango piquancy. Syrupy peach, apricot and nectarine pureeing outdoes up-front mango adjunct over time. In the bottle, tangy mango, peach, tangerine and nectarine sweetness picks up cinnamon apple influence to contrast diacetyl gin-like juniper berry dryness.
Despite boasting capacious adjuncts, light-bodied witbier lacks firm direction as advertised chamomile herbage, coriander spicing, grains of paradise tartness and curacao orange peel zest fail to gain distinction alongside lagging banana-clove sweetness. However, its spritzy lemon twist and sharp hop bite provide sufficient support.
Another directionless watermelon ale. Dry lime subtlety fades as precipitously as its light watermelon influence above biscuit-y white bread spine. Neutral cucumber-celery watering provides clean base, but please up the damn sweet ‘n sour fruitiness.
On tap at Blue Ribbon Tavern, enjoyable full-bodied toasted coconut dessert treat gets amplified by fudgy brown chocolate, brown-sugared molasses, cacao nibs, vanilla bean and toffee sweetness, retaining rich nutty mocha profile above moderate dark-roasted hop bittering. Resilient oats-honeyed coconut toasting never loses ground against massive chocolate insistence. A wintry pina colada aged on cocoa nibs.
On tap at Coalhouse Pizza, sumptuously sweet-creamed milk chocolate splendor greets supple toffee, vanilla, cocoa and burnt caramel sugaring for indulgent dessert beer. Syrupy chocolate sweetness inundates velvety smooth finish. Perfect for any sweet-toothed chocolate lover.
On tap at Coalhouse Pizza, decadent medium body brings bittersweet dark-roast coffee bean resilience to milk chocolate center, oats-charred nuttiness and smoky black pepper singe. Tertiary black cherry, raisin and plum illusions settle way below hot java theme.
On tap at Coalhouse Pizza, complex medium-bodied English porter sports oats-flaked chocolate sweetness, peat-smoked molasses whiskey malting and chewy toffee creaming over toasted pumpernickel base. In the backdrop, cola nuttiness endures beside floral anise spicing and dried-fruited black grape, black cherry and green raisin illusions. Busy full-flavored Londoner suits heartier thirsts.
On tap at Ambulance, initial black coffee bittering inundated by dark-roasted black chocolate influence and acrid black patent malting to sugared barley-oats base. Bittersweet molasses syruping slightly thickens rich mocha resonance.
