Another thickly creamed tart-candied Sour Patch Kids knockoff from rangy Jersey zymurgist. Utilizing pureed strawberry, raspberry and peach to soak up the extremely sour mouth-puckering concentrated orange juicing, murkily copper-browned fruited sour ale gains briny residue and spritzy soda-like fizzing. Mildly influencing the tart citrus-spiked berry/peach confluence are pink grapefruit, pineapple and acai illusions fizzy soda
On tap at Beef Trust, tannic white-wined esters and briny lemon-limed gourd souring contrast maple syrupy pumpkin pie spicing – letting gingery cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice autumnal seasoning sweeten the glazed pumpkin donut finish. In the distance, bark-dried oaken vanilla tannins reveal sour edge.
On tap at Jealous Monk, sour wildflower-honeyed lemon liming gains mildly acidic white wine tannins and slight ammonia pungency above light rustic-grained pilsner malting.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, cleanly dry clear golden saison takes raw-honeyed fruit spicing to celery-watered fennel herbage and leathery barnyard acridity over dainty pilsner malts in slightly offbeat stylistic manner.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne – 2021, chewy Madagascar vanilla bean prominence and dark cocoa syruping nearly overwhelm brown-sugared cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and clove seasoning as well as gingery mace peppering, light burnt wood chafe and teasing cola nuttiness. In the can ’24, boozy bourbonized gingerbread presence consumes bittersweet Madagascar vanilla bean creaminess guarding wintry cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and mase spicing as well as rum-dried minty pine snips.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, sharp gingered cinnamon spicing seeps into brown-sugared pureed pumpkin as mild saffron-perfumed nutmeg, allspice and clove seasoning peppers dryer than expected tannic vanilla-daubed butternut squash base.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, nearly cloy lemon-sugared elderberry tartness contrasts slightly soured white wine esters, picking up a vodka-nipped orange twist over sweet cereal wheat base for ancient 12th century ElderLemonWeizen recipe revisited.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, lactic breakfast sour drapes dark maple syrup over strawberry pureed vanilla beaning and cinnamon-swirled French Toast sweetness contrasting curdled yogurt milking and lemon-soured gourd sway.
Mildly creamed vanilla licks peruse banana-clove sweetness and fizzy lemon-seeded prickle over sugared wheat base. Distant plantain tartness, snippy grassy hop astringency and a tiny metallic shard fill out the casual backdrop.
Easygoing pink-glowed ‘sour wheat’ leaves subtle salted raspberry tartness upon mild yogurt-milked oaken vanilla tannins and rosé, white zinfandel and pink blush wining as well as distant grapefruit-cranberry souring for spritzy fruited seltzer-like Berliner Weiss.
On tap at Jealous Monk, crushable hazy golden bronzed Citra-Mosaic-hopped pale ale collaboration with nearby Willimantic retains easygoing grapefruit, orange and pineapple tang above grassy pine resin and spicy crystal malts. A softer, less bitter India Pale Ale.
On tap at Jealous Monk, mild beechwood smoke permeates desolate smoked meat wisp and slight herbal Hallertau-hopped pilsner malting of one-year anniversary smoked helles posing as a light-bodied, less flavorful rauchbier.
