Vibrantly juicy soft-toned New England-styled pale ale lets spicy lemon-limed orange peel tang tingle piney yellow grapefruit bittering as affable peach, pineapple and mango tropicalia sweetens the pale malt spicing. Delectable IPA-styled moderation looking for a snappier citric hop bite.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, sharp Cascade/Citra/Columbus/Centennial-hopped citrus zesting sits atop dry pale malt base. Grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering picks up spicy lemon twist. Crisply clean citrus surface will appeal to IPA lovers as well as pale ale thirsts.
On tap at Beef Trust, syrupy vanilla cream soda knockoff retains ice cream float sweetness and semi-sharp orange peel spicing effectively. Sugar cookie, whipped cream and toasted cinnamon illusions flutter.
Ambitious Mexican-style horchata-inspired cream ale brings stylishly sweet cinnamon-vanilla warmth to milk-sugared rice flouring above honeyed Graham Cracker base. Confectionary powdered sugaring drapes vanilla-creamed cinnamon frontage as recessive coconut, almond and mandarin orange illusions sway. Sensational sugary dessert treat.
Sparkling rosé ale recalls less involved lambic with its tart oaken cherry souring, lightly vinous champagne sparkle and ester-y grape effervescence swaying piquant apple cider, cranberry and peach adjuncts. Lovely cherry juice tartness spreads across tertiary sherry, port, pomegranate, crabapple and watermelon rind illusions that seep into thin Jolly Rancher wine cooler finish.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, mild dry-bodied pale wheat ale blends juicy Citra-Mosaic hop fruiting with protruding raw-grained barnyard leathering, corn-husked maize astringency and cracked wheat breading. Celery-watered crisping brings light vegetal remnant to dewy citrus-induced grain field.
On tap at Ambulance, approachable moderate-bodied wheat ale gathers orange-peeled tangerine zesting to contrast lemon-soured orange pith bittering above pasty wheat base. Subtle orange rot grazes sweet bubblegum-banana snips in backend.
On tap at Growler & Gill, deviously offbeat hybridized one-off utilizes lightly brined squid-inked smoke peach adjunct to casually affect its doppelbock-like maple sugaring, brown ale-like chestnut/hazelnut snag and dark lagered fig-dried black malt dryness. Needs more pronounced squid-inked peach intensity.
Sessionable helles lager flings hay-like husked maize astringency, dry spelt-grained flouring and corn-sugared pale malting at grassy Noble-hopped lemon peel spritz for muskily rustic malt liquor-like persistence.
On tap at Ambulance, cellared pale lager malting adds musky graining to lemony orange-oiled grapefruit pith bittering, lawn-mown grassy hop astringency and mild herbal tones.
On tap at Growler & Gill, briskly clean flagship lager brings zesty lemon splurge to bready pale malting and grassy hop astringency with gleeful mainstream appeal.
Dry premium lager with straw grained barnyard minerality gains sweetly rice-wined green grape esters to soothe herbal lemon rot souring and skunked vegetal snip above cracked wheat bed for fluffily white-headed yellow belly.