Zesty lemon-bruised grapefruit tang and auxiliary crayon-waxed tangerine, clementine and mandarin orange licks receive grassy pine-toned bittering and musky herbal salting for amiable Citra-Simcoe-El Dorado-hopped Imperial IPA.
DEPARTED SOLES ABOUT YOUR CAR’S EXTENDED WARRANTY DOUBLE IPA
Sunny grapefruit-embittered orange peel tang, bright lemon zesting, salted pineapple spree and pine-sapped hop bite saddled by mildly creamed milk-sugared vanilla sweetness that’s too polite to be considered a true milkshake IPA (despite its intentions). Penetrative musky citrus bittering lingers long and deep as lactic yogurt souring infiltrates hazy golden glowed medium-full body.
KANE BLUEBERRY ISLAND INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, waxy blueberry tartness seeps inside vanilla bean adjunct as fleeting passionfruit, grapefruit and orange tang receives lacquered pine bittering over lactic oats of fruitful Mosaic-hopped blueberry slushee.
FORGOTTEN BOARDWALK MR. WATSON WHITE IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, wheat-altered IPA placates lemony grapefruit-orange tang with Hallertau Blanc-hopped white grape esters, earthen melon mold and dry wood lacquer above bready oats base in soft-toned hefeweizen setting.
DROWNED LANDS BATTEN KILL SOUR INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, murkily hazed ruby grapefruit hue thicker than tartly fruited entry. Dry oaken cherry guards pink guava-pureed raspberry tartness and yellow grapefruit bittering as mildly milk-sugared Madagascar vanilla beaning wispily floats into creamily oated wheat base.
RODENBACH CLASSIC BELGIAN SOUR ALE
Smoothly sour oak-casked Flanders Red Ale retains tannic raspberry tartness, oaken cherry leathering and cider vinegaring over butternut/chestnut-roasted caramelization. Dank cellared water funk provides earthen base.
JUGHANDLE SOUR WHEELS SCORPION BOWL
On tap at River Of Beer, engrossing fruit-tart Tiki cocktail plies salty vodka-licked tropicalia and light white rum influence to powder-candied cherry, lemon and tangerine pucker as well as passionfruit-pureed pineapple, guava and strawberry auxiliary scoured by bittersweet orange juice concentrate for amply fruited sour ale.
CONNECTICUT VALLEY PINEAPPLE SOUR
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, juicily eye-squinting pineapple tartness picks up salty lemon-limed souring and cucumber watered cleansing as sharp orange-concentrated grapefruit, tangelo and passionfruit illusions deepen pineapple tenacity.
TOPPLING GOLIATH CHERRY FANDANGO SOUR
On tap at Taphouse 15, kettle-soured ‘cinnamon-crushed cherry pie’ may lack advertised sweet spicing but its oaken cherry salting, candied cherry tartness and cherry rhubarb twang provide lightly embittered snazziness countering just a pinch of grenadine sweetness.
FIRESTONE WALKER CHAMPS DE FRAISES
Intensely sour gueuze lambic-like wild ale aged in French oak barrels plies limey lemon-squeezed acidity and dry white wine vinegaring to salted strawberry adjunct in lactic brettanomyces funk setting. Ultimately, leathery horse-blanketed acridity beats down perfumed strawberry misting.
THIN MAN MINKEY BOODLE STRAWBERRY SOUR ALE
Sharply mouth-puckering pinkish amber fruited kettle sour. Salted lemon-limed strawberry tartness gains immediate vinous green grape esters and brash gooseberry-cranberry-pomegranate bittering as distant hard cider splash and raspberry vinaigrette rasp heighten acidic sourness.
MUCKRAKER HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY SOUR
On tap at Taphouse 15, sweet-tart blueberry slushee (with mucky purplish red hue) brings French oak wine fermentation to creamy vanilla yogurt souring. Rich blueberry-blackberry propensity gains Muscat grape, pomegranate and cranberry tartness and mildly acidic lemon juicing.
