On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, milk-sugared pastry powdering glides thru mild fresh-brewed coffee roast to engage vibrant floral-fruited nature of richly well-rounded IPA hybrid. Creamy caramelized vanilla froth licks the lips as juicy yellow grapefruit, navel orange, peach, mango and pineapple tanginess rises above chicory coffee-stained peppering, leaving mild hop-charred astringency upon sweet-milked java jaunt.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, murkily hazed marble-coppered New England-styled IPA maintains creamy vanilla froth to sweeten spry grapefruit, mandarin orange, pineapple and mango juiciness. Zesty lemon respite gains light herbal notions and dry wood tones at the lupulin-powdered citrus finish.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, sessionable double dry-hopped IPA loads wood-dried citrus zest above oats-sugared pale malting. Yellow grapefruit tartness, piquant lemon sunshine and mild mandarin orange sweetness gain nutty caramel reminder over time, contrasting its finishing dry wood-toned citric bittering.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, dank double dry-hopped IPA loads wood-soaked herbal spiced pleasantries beside sedate grapefruit, orange and pineapple tanginess and atop soft oats-toasted pale malting. Refreshing cucumber crisping adds vegetal tinge.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, refreshingly crisp double dry-hopped IPA utilizes tropical Nelson Sauvin lupulins to amplify brisk grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and zesty lemon-limed souring. Mild peach, pineapple and mango tang contrasts plastique pine lacquering beneath the citric surface, providing further spectral resonance.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, yellow marble-glazed New England-styled hazy IPA promotes sharp yellow grapefruit-seeded orange rind bittering and mild pine lacquered herbal respite. In the midst, tartly lemon limed souring contrasts less punctual peach-skinned mango tang.
On tap at Plank Pizza, “blissfully” well-balanced moderate-medium body leads lemon-peeled pineapple, peach and mango tropicalia thru grassy herbal hop astringency, dank pine resin and sweet floral perfuming. A mellower IPA.
On tap at Plank Pizza, soft-toned Abbey Ale aged in bourbon and brandy barrels seems a tad thin and underwhelming (despite heady 9.9% ABV), but not at the expense of its spicily candi-sugared plum, fig and date sweetness. Mild port, burgundy, brandy and bourbon illusions add subtle red-wined tannins.
Sharp cinnamon-barked pumpkin pie entry gains orange-peeled ginger, nutmeg and clove spicing as well as caramelized malt sweetness to contrast earthen yam-gourd conflux. Interestingly, spearmint, fern and pine nut illusions flutter by below.
On tap at Plank Pizza, crisply clean Czech-styled bohemian pilsner retains light maize musk for herbal-hopped lemon spritz, toasted cereal graining and honeyed biscuit base.
Sloppily aggressive Belgian quad/ German bock mix lets rotted apple mustiness, viscous corn syruping and disturbing alcohol burn relegate, then ruin, its fig-dried raisin, plum and prune niceties. Disgustingly cloy and stylishly conflicted 14% ABV Lithuanian worth avoiding unless inducing hangover.
Slickly cloying whiskey-malted caramel and toffee viscosity burned away by murky ethanol acidity. Though almond-pasted pecan sweetness and dried-fruited prune, raisin and fig sugaring aren’t out of place, they’re buried behind oily alcohol astringency.
