Fizzy pale green cleared Berliner Weisse relegates tart blue raspberry souring for lime-salted kiwi, pineapple and mango tropicalia, but it gets way too cloy despite moderate citrus acidity. Sweet-Tart Pez candied pucker glides into salt-rimmed Margarita reminder. A slick 7-11 kiddie cocktail knockoff.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, tart blood orange-pureed blackberry adjunct reinforces fruited candy souring of pinkish blush sour ale. Salted grapefruit, kiwi and mango tropicalia plays possum.
On tap at Ambulance, tannic ruddy amber Flemish-styled red ale (aged in red wine barrels) drapes balsamic vinegar atop oaken cherry tartness and leathery barnyard funk. Sharp cherry-cranberry-crabapple souring submerges musky grape skin tannins and dry limey bittering.
On tap at Taphouse 15, tart pastry-styled Imperial Sour Ale dupes strawberry rhubarb pie with frosty milk-sugared marshmallow sweetness. Tart strawberry midst locates mild lemon-candied orange oiling and bubbly champagne misting.
On tap at Ambulance, curious mixed culture saison combines brown sour ale and golden sour ale for a tannic Flemish Red hybrid. Bubbly champagned-licked lemon liming gains fizzy white wining, oaken cherry tartness and dry peppercorn spicing over barnyard-dried herbage. Vinous lactobacillus yeast provides dry wined acidity for soured wild ale.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, muted lemony blackberry tartness lingers softly above musty fungi-induced barnyard acridity and spicy saison yeast peppering. Needs more pronounced blackberry influence.
On tap at Beef Trust, muskily tart deep red-hued raspberry lambic utilizes Hallertau Blanc hops to create white-wined sparkling rosé backdrop. Muted raspberry tartness reinforced by tertiary lemon-candied gooseberry, cranberry and boysenberry dryness as well as cherry rhubarb snip over mild pink peppercorn earthiness.
On tap at Taphouse 15, delightful soft-tongued ambrosia salad replica, conditioned on tangy pineapple, tart mandarin orange and toasted coconut, receives marshmallow-creamed milk sugar frosting above wheated oats base. Spritzy orange zesting crowds the yogurt-soured midst as tertiary grapefruit, peach and banana illusions provide further dimension.
On tap at Taphouse 15, zestful tropical fruited IPA boasts Lemon Starburst, orange sherbet, mango, papaya, cherry, grapefruit and peach ripeness dried out by wild oats leathering and grassy hop astringency.
On tap at Taphouse 15, richly creamed lactic milkshake IPA conditioned on Madagascar vanilla beans, toasted coconut and cocoa nibs picks up lemony passionfruit-pineapple souring atop marshmallow-fluffed roasted oats. Resembles chocolate-laced vanilla coconut cookie.
On tap at Beef Trust, substantial lactose-fused dry-hopped milkshake IPA conditioned on yogurt-soured passionfruit, orange and guava puree retains floral-daubed tropical fruited juiciness and vanilla-sugared marshmallow fluff over lacquered pine tones. Sweet ‘n sour sashay enhanced by strawberry, kiwi and ‘orange Starburst’ illusions.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, creamily lactose milk-sugared vanilla sweetness provides sturdy foundation for grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering, ancillary mango-tangerine-orange tang, resinous pine dankness and spicy floral dash of NEIPA/Milkshake-inspired medium body.