On tap at Ambulance, light-roast coffee splatters mild charred nuttiness, Baker’s chocolate dryness, raw molasses bittering and salty soy snip.
BOLERO SNORT ONE HOOF IN FRONT OF THE LOVER MILKSHAKE IPA
On tap at Plank Pizza, pink lace sits atop crimson body of sensational heavily creamed milkshake IPA. ‘Lush’ vanilla bean sugaring sops up tart strawberry adjunct as raspberry, boysenberry and blackberry respite deepens fruitful dessert. Thickly creamed marshmallow fluff sweetens oated wheat base. A heavenly strawberry milkshake.
ROOT + BRANCH FEAR
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry soft-toned NEIPA lets buttered grapefruit-orange salting and tropical pineapple-papaya-mango tang serenade sedate wildflower and apple blossom honeyed oated wheat base. Dank piney hop bittering stays distant.
OAKFLOWER MONEY TREE
On tap at Taphouse 15, ‘aggressively dry-hopped’ New England IPA collab with new Morris Plains brewery, Autodidact, puts lemony orange peeled peach and pineapple tang across light vegetal herbage and atop buttery pale malts. Lacks stylish oats-creamed sour yogurt dimension.
DECIDUOUS SPACE BETWEEN NEW ENGLAND IPA
On tap at Ambulance, OK collab with Pittsburgh’s Dancing Gnome Beer. Lightly spiced lemon zesting surges as orange marmalade, candied pineapple and tart white grapefruit reach mild vanilla-creamed pale malt pasting.
SOUTHERN GRIST ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2022 REDUX
Zestful 2022 redux brewed once a year to celebrate brewers’ anniversary is superb. Luxurious double dry-hopped NEIPA with sunny Mosaic-Citra-Vic Secret-hopped tropicalia allows juicy lemon-spiced orange peel tang and mildly embittered yellow grapefruit splash to pick up dank herbal resin as well as perfumed juniper bite above creamily oated wheat base. Versatile fruited profile gains ancillary salted mango, white peach, pineapple, mandarin orange and tangerine illusions.
WILD EAST ATTITUDE DANCING WEST COAST IPA
On tap at Plank Pizza, dry San Diego-styled IPA utilizes Simcoe-Centennial-Columbus hop triage for musky lemon-soured grapefruit, pineapple and tangerine entry sidled by resinous piney dankness riding atop rye-like mineral graining.
TORCH & CROWN INTERSECT SESSION IPA
On tap at Plank Pizza, sessionably soft-toned hazy golden yellowed IPA retains mild lemon peeled grapefruit, orange and pineapple bittering and delicate piney hop briskness. Zesty Citra-Sultana hop combo brightens fruitiness above lightly sugared pale malting.
ARGYLE HOP TO IT INDIA PALE ALE
Back in the ’90s, this dry piney citrus embittered West Coast-like India Pale Ale would be encouraging streamlined mainstream fodder bettering nearly all the previous stylistic pretenders excepting maybe Ballantine IPA and few others. But in 2022, its lemon-pitted grapefruit pith bittering, mild orange rind dehydration and dry wood tones seem limited compared to expansive milkshake, New England-styled and sour IPA’s. Nice citrus-induced vodka kick, though.
NEPENTHE CEREBRA SYNAPTIC INDIA PALE ALE
Sunshiny clear-yellowed, cumulous headed double dry-hopped IPA utilizes winning Citra-Mosiac-Amarillo hop combo for crushable easygoing serenity. Lemony orange-peeled grapefruit tanginess settles softly above delicate wheated oat spine. Wispy pineapple, tangerine and peach daubs the delicate light-bodied sedation.
NEPENTHE ASTRAL DECAY PALE ALE
Fancier fruited pale ale is well designed IPA derivation. Juicy grapefruit-peeled orange rind zestfulness embraces salty white wining and floral-spiced pineapple, mandarin and peach illusions plus mild gooseberry-guava snips as piney Amarillo-Centennial hop herbage gains mild cannabis resin to contrast bright Citra-Nelson Sauvin hop tropicalia above honey-malted French breading.
SINGLECUT AMP PUNCH SOUR ALE
On tap at Plank Pizza, salted lime bittering and lemony green grape spritz cajole tart blackberry adjunct as mild strawberry-raspberry illusions affix vodka-licked citric midst, retaining low acidity.
