Sunny yellow grapefruit bittering, sharp orange peel tang and spiced pineapple salting enter dry resinous pine center in crystalline cryo Mosaic-Azacca hop setting, picking up light herbage.
EVIL GENIUS SANTA!! I KNOW HIM! FESTIVE SAISON
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, wintry Christmas fruitcake spicing guards expressive saison. Wildflower-honeyed rose hips, chamomile and black currant adjuncts, draped by dark Belgian candi syrup, gain dried fig-cherry-pineapple fruiting and lemony banana glaze to contrast marginal phenolic black-peppered cellar musk.
O’FALLON MAPLE BACON PUMPKIN SPICED RED ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, offbeat meat-cured gourd spicing may seem too extreme for a caramel-toasted red ale, but the combo works. Maple-glazed bacon sweetness gains candied apple coating enjoining pumpkin pie-spiced nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice seasoning to linger atop smoked spelt-grained Weyermann malts.
(VERHAEGHE) DUCHESSE PETITE BARREL AGED SOUR ALE
Finely blended oak-aged Flanders Red Ale unites vinous green grape souring and bitter white wine esters with less prominent brown-sugared dried fruiting. Along the way, strong ammonia esters deepen its sour vinegaring. Below, soily brown leaf astringency sops up sweet-sour cider tease.
COLLECTIVE ARTS GUAVA GOSE
On tap at Jealous Monk, salty lemon-juiced guava pureeing bolstered by moderately acidic orange concentrated pineapple bittering above coriander-seeded pilsner malt base.
SOUTHERN TIER FROSTED SUGAR COOKIE IMPERIAL ALE
Sweet wintry-spiced frosted sugar cookie knockoff topped off with iced vanilla buttercream frosting and pancake battered cinnamon toasting buries phenol Columbus hop astringency beneath oncoming cotton-candied marshmallow licks, fried banana snips and distant nutmeg wisps coated by mildly maple syruped oats flaking. Cream vanilla spice caking crowds the sugar cookie finish.
FORGOTTEN BOARDWALK GINGER SNAP COOKIE CREAM ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, brown-sugared ginger snap cookie knockoff contrasts creamy vanilla-sweetened gingerbread cookie sugaring and tingly cinnamon-nutmeg-clove seasoning with oncoming orange-peeled Blackstrap molasses bittering for delectably spiced vanilla cream ale. Another fine Christmastime ale.
ITHACA FUGGLY SWEATER DARK LAGER
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, dewy peat moss absorbs molasses-daubed cocoa dusting and mild Christmastime ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon spicing as recessive brown-leafed dark-roast hop astringency wavers thru gingerbread finish.
VON TRAPP TROSTEN
On tap at Jealous Monk, dewy dark lager with mildest smoked rauchbier influence provides wispy smoke bacon dash for Bakers chocolate, chicory coffee and ashen chestnut whims above cocoa-powdered carafa malting.
902 HURLEY HOOPS & HOPS AMBER LAGER
On tap at Plank Pizza, brewed in collaboration with legendary Jersey high school basketball coach, soft perfume-spiced citrus tang pleats delicate pilsner malting for briskly easygoing Cascade-hopped moderation.
902 CHILLTOWN CRUSH PILSNER
On tap at Plank Pizza, mildly musky pilsner-grained German lager yeast prods Huell Melon-hopped chutney-like melon rind earthiness and subtle cotton-candied citrus spicing for slightly offbeat lawnmower appeal.
ROGUE DEAD ‘N DEAD (2021)
On tap at Schatzi’s, judiciously whiskey barreled Dead Guy Ale (2021) soaks original’s honey-roasted caramelization, plum-sugared red cherry sweetness and orange marmalade tang with oaken vanilla rye whiskey tones, dry bourbon perfuming and pasty pine lacquering.
