On tap at Plank Pizza, dry English IPA delicately plies stylish dewy fungi musk, desiccated fig tartness, earthen nuttiness and rustic herbage to buttered biscuity malting. Serve to extra special bitter fans as well.
SKYGAZER WATERCOLORS SWIRLEE RASPBERRY SWEET CHERRY CHOCOLATE SOFT SERVE
On tap at Taphouse 15, luxuriously frothed pinkish mauve Berliner Weiss-styled fruited sour regales luxurious ‘soft serve’ ice cream-frosted raspberry and cherry tartness. Milk-sugared vanilla creaming nearly outdoes sly chocolate malting underscoring raspberry-salted cherry zing of fluffily mouth-puckering Gummy Bear/ Swirlee-candied confection.
BOLERO SNORT BULLREAS
On tap at Plank Pizza, lusciously lactose-milked fruited kettle sour pours marshmallowy vanilla ice cream sauce atop tart boysenberry-blueberry-raspberry zing with rapturous results. Frothy marshmallow sweetness perfectly suits pervasive sweet ‘n sour berry tanginess.
BOLERO SNORT MOOCLEAR WINTER
On tap at Plank Pizza, ‘heavily fruited sour’ ale brings sweet milk sugaring to cucumber-watered prickly pear and zesty pineapple adjuncts in unique blend. Beyond the pineapple-tart prickly pear frontage lies subtle watermelon, cantaloupe, cranberry and crabapple nuances.
CASCADE SANG NOIR BOURBON AGED RED ALE W/ CHERRIES
On tap at Taphouse 15, white-wined Bing cherry tartness saddled by oaken vanilla tannins in dry bourbon-aged setting. Port, Pinot Gris and rosé wining receives mild balsamic vinegaring as sedate cranberry, blackberry and boysenberry illusions waver.
LONE EAGLE PINEAPPLE GUSHER
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, wondrous kettle acidified fruited sour ale thrusts forth with full-on pineapple resolve. Spritzy sweet-tart pineapple zesting sparkles. Tangy pineapple finish receives mild concentrated orange juicing. Highly recommended tropical fruited cocktail.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN / LONG LOT FARM TRIBE SAISON
Nicely peculiar smoked saison (collaboration with Long Lot) plies pickled jalapeno, habanero and poblano peppering to stylish fruit-spiced cultured yeast esters. Mild pepper burn slowly sears thru lemon-sliced cucumber watering and acrid barnyard rusticity.
SINGLECUT THE PRODUCER FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, pinkish ruby-glowed saison plies candied Sweet-Tart sourness to leathery farmhouse yeast and hay-like barnyard acridity. Puckered strawberry, pomegranate and green apple souring and lemony orange licks pick up latent peppery snip.
BELL’S RIND OVER MATTER WHEAT ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, ‘crushable’ dry Oberon-like wheat ale retains slightly bitter lemony orange rind zesting, limey cologne musk and herbal lemongrass wisp for bright citric-spiced moderation.
SWITCHBACK ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, Vermont’s #1 draught beer will please easygoing light-bodied lawn mowers. Sugary amber grain malting upends herbal hop musk and mild red-orange fruiting over nuttily toasted bread bottom. Smoothly well balanced old fashion reticence perfect for simpler macro thirsts moving on to better fare.
LEFT HAND FLAMINGO DREAMS NITRO BERRY BLONDE ALE
New signature nitro offering (2021) retains easygoing lambic-like berry tartness too flat and faded for its brittle dextral carafoam malting. Mild blackcurrant-juiced raspberry adjunct hits with a zesty zing then tails off as lightly salted boysenberry, strawberry and huckleberry subtleties flutter.
ROGUE HONEY KOLSCH
Rogue Farms Hopyard Honey supplies the floral honeysuckle wheat dryness to acidulated dextra pils malting as sedate lemon-oiled grassy hop stead and mild froth recall cream ale.