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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Curious Kosher deli sandwich knockoff proves to be a spicy rye-dried enticement as brown-sugared cured meat, mustard-seeded smoked salami and applewood-smoked bacon glazed by dainty Blackstrap molasses bittering. Black and red peppering as well as coriander-seeded curry snips singe smoke-spiced rye bread spine.
On tap at Ambulance, underwhelmingly thin doppelbock brings faded hazelnut, chestnut and praline subtleties to dewy molasses rye meadow leading to toasted brioche breading.
On tap at Plank Pizza, crisply clean bohemian lager relies on dry raw-grained minerality and salty floral herbage as grassy lemon-seeded astringency teases the musky finish.
