Tart passionfruit and lime adjuncts bring dryly sour tropical fruiting to the fore as vinous white-wined green grape tannins and juicy lemon spritz gain mild acidity. Limey passionfruit continuance picks up herbal lemongrass snips to wispy white wheat base.
TRVE COSMIC CRYPT
Easygoing “farmhouse pale ale” brings sunny yellow grapefruit tang to rustic oats-dried barnyard funk and herbal lemongrass pleasantry. White-wined mandarin orange seduction tingles lemon-soured grapefruit finish.
M.I.A. MEGA MIX PALE ALE
Floral orange-peeled grapefruit briskness gathers mild pineapple, peach, tangerine and mango tang above dry pale malt spicing as polite herbal hop bittering turns slightly astringent for straightforward moderate-medium-bodied West Coast pale ale less piney than its IPA counterparts.
OMMEGANG ADORATION SPECIAL WINTER ALE
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, lovely Buffalo Trace bourbon sweetness picks up brown-sugared molasses spicing and caramelized vanilla creaming for velvety Belgian dark ale. Sweet orange-peeled coriander, cardamom, mace and grains of paradise flutter by alongside tertiary coconut milking.
UNIBROUE BLONDE L’ENFER
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, wintry 2017-derived Belgian pale ale brings cidery champagne effervescence to spicy candi-sugared dried fruiting. Buttery Chardonnay, desiccated orange, banana bread and apricot illusions placate Vermouth-dried vodka expanse of strong blonde.
OXBOW / VEIL POST NO BILLS SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, fine double dry-hopped IPA given farmhouse saison yeast influence for collaborative Maine-Virginia concoction. Lemony mango, orange, pineapple and papaya juicing rubs up against piney Amarillo hop bittering, picking up dried barnyard astringency and slight vodka kick.
DEVIL’S PURSE HANDLINE KOLSCH
Subtle lemon-rotted dried fig entry gains mild raw-honeyed bittering, light herbal-spiced Noble hop musk and fresh-cut grassiness over sourdough-breaded pale malting for soft-toned kolsch. Fizzy lemon spicing pressed against biscuity baked breading. in the distance, corn-stalked wheat straw acridity sidles apple, pear and white grape wisps.
LIC BEER PROJECT GAL FRIDAY BERLINER WEISSE
On tap at Ambulance, subtle passionfruit souring pervades salty lime-puckered green grape tannins and wayward pineapple-coconut tropicalia, staying moderately vinous and refreshingly clean.
DRY DOCK APRICOT BLONDE ALE
Precisely replicating a dried apricot, delectable fruited blonde stays resilient. Sweet, tart and sour apricot plot picks up reluctant fig spicing over honeyed wheat base for summery fermented fruit ale.
VON TRAPP VIENNA LAGER
Dewy mineral-grained Vienna malts saturate sour honey musk. Herbal residue leaves grassy fennel trace upon earthy floral undertones and citrus-spiced tease. A slightly sourer Austrian-styled amber lager.
(POST) HOWDY WESTERN PILSNER
Blue collar fare. Corn-dried lemon spritz fades to oblivion as mild aluminum taste beckons.
TRIPLE CROSSING SHIMMER PILS
On tap at Poor Henry’s, floral-daubed citrus profile of an IPA overrides grassy Noble-hopped German pilsner malting. Lemon zest brightens grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering as well as sweet peach-pineapple-mango undertones.
