Stupendously rich 2021 limited edition English-styled barleywine dupes dessert-like Imperial Stout styling with luxurious mocha richness deepening its chewy vanilla bean-aged lusciousness. Molasses-sugared bourbon vanilla creaming topped off by brown chocolate syrup as sweet-toothed fudged brownie, vanilla cafe latte, cherry chocolate cake, caramel latte, spiced toffee and brown raisin illusions prosper.
On tap at Ambulance, dryer-than-usual Trappist-styled tripel brings peppery herbal-spiced Noble hop lemon zesting and mild orange-banana-pineapple tropicalia to candi-sugared crystal malting in winning fashion.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, 800th anniversary Belgian pale ale remains steadfastly subdued as bubble-gummed banana and clove sweetness pervades zesty lemon briskness and honeyed tea sugaring while polite chamomile-lemongrass-peppercorn stint beckons below.
On tap at Taphouse 15, worthy breakfast cereal-styled Berliner Weisse conditioned on blood orange, toasted coconut and marshmallow works heavily wheated oats sugaring into its sweetly soured tropical fruiting. Tart blood orange salting overloads toasted coconut adjunct, relying instead upon ancillary lemon custard, key lime pie and tangy tangelo illusions.
On tap at Taphouse 15, unique bubble-bursting magenta crimsoned pastel hue matches idiosyncratic nature of fruitful hybridized berliner weiss. Pureed raspberry and blueberry adjuncts provide boisterously tart Pez-candied sweet ‘n souring over milk-sugared vanilla cheesecake creaminess laced with sharp lime salting. A delightfully chewy blueberry-caked raspberry cheesecake alternative.
On tap at Taphouse 15, stupendous purplish amber-hazed sour IPA packs marshmallow whipped creaming atop amplified pureed blueberry-raspberry tartness and sharp sour-candied lemon lime pucker. Heavy creamed vanilla sweetness fervently contrasts limey berried salinity of thick-bodied tartly fruited elixir.
On tap at Taphouse 15, tart pinkish magenta hued blueberry pie-inspired sour ale recalls floral-bound blueberry wine as green grape esters provide sour edge to less enduring marshmallow-sugared Graham Cracker spine.
Radiant pinkish amber-glowed kettle sour better defined as an ‘acidified gose’ retains dry coriander-cracked salinity to contrast its streusel crumb cake aspirations – but traveling way beyond stylistic misnomers. Supremely tart orange-juiced pink lemonade pucker soaks subtle strawberry-blackberry pureed adjunct in milky Smoothie-like lactose setting, extending its sharply acidic citrus thrust to vanilla-creamed marshmallow center. At the creamy finish, berried crumb cake tartness surges.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, hard-candied cherry tartness picks up vinous green grape esters and musty oaken vanilla tannins as well as hibiscus, rhubarb and cranberry illusions above leathery earthen bottom of fruited kettle sour.
On tap at Ambulance, mellow fruited wheat wine hides its elevated 11.2% ABV in a humble cognac-divined maple molasses setting. Oaken cherry, creamed sherry, dry burgundy, buttery Chardonnay and peach wine illusions stay subtle. Almost heavenly serenity.
Peculiarities abound for lemon-clad sour wheat ale with extremely tart cranberry-pureed sweet potato adjunct. Sour creamed potato flaking diminishes fast as green grape tannins add vinous contrast to oncoming pink lemonade tang leveling off finishing cranberry souring.
Supremely tart ‘acidified gose’ with radiant rust glow recalls a densely fruited Smoothie with its concentrated orange juicing rasping mango-salted apricot pureeing and leaving an intense sour candied pucker. Truly captures its hybridized styling. Not as gooey and chewy as globular Fort Nonsense’s Back Off Man I’m A Scientist or Bolero Snort’s Uddr, two similarly succulent sour ales.
