On tap at Poor Henry’s, pungent dry-hopped sour ale utilizes lightly vinous Muscat grapes and acidic brettanomyces yeast to enhance lemony grapefruit tartness over straw-dried barnyard acridity. Tertiary guava, passionfruit and gooseberry illusions filter thru.
Cloying Belgian-styled wheat ale with candied blood orange and tangerine tang retains sinewy corn syruping as well as meager coriander spicing. Sticky soda-like carbolic sugaring becomes soapy and unsettling.
On tap at Tapastre, tranquil red wine-barreled farmhouse ale stays extremely dry as vinous red grape tannins create mild Sauvignon-pinot warmth activated by wild lactic yeast. Lemon-licked peppery hop bite adds moderate bitterness and scorched earth snip provides slight acridity.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, turbidly amber-yellowed medium body adds sour lactose acidity to salty lemon pith bittering, dry-hopped passionfruit puree tartness and zesty mandarin orange wisps. Below the soured tropicalia lies grouty fennel, lemongrass and celery illusions.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, subtle pepper-spiced blueberry honey tartness receives lemony herbal suppleness, candied orange respite and leafy hop astringency. Crisply clean water flow softens residual bitterness.
Well-realized and stylistically bold pale ale (dedicated to former San Diego baseball star, Tony Gwynn) places tangy grapefruit-orange-pineapple juicing upfront as resinous hop pining contrasts cereal-grained caramel sugaring. Tertiary mango, peach, clementine and tangerine fruiting adds further luster.
On tap at Growler & Gill, crisply clean freshwater flow provides smooth setting for interesting pale ale turnabout. Zesty lemon burst furnished by abstruse floral herbage, oily pine hops and sugared pale malting. Delicate pineapple, mango, passionfruit and mandarin orange illusions add zing to offbeat eccentricity.
On tap at Growler & Gill, daringly hybridized clear beige-yellowed kolsch blends stylish pale lagered grape tannins with supple askew adjuncts. Milk-sugared coconut water, honeyed ginger licks, tart lemon spritz and wispy floral nuances coalesce quite efficiently in clean water setting.
Middle of the road moderate-bodied hefe retains mild vanilla creaming as lemony banana-clove frontage picks up tart orange binge and sugar wafer honeying.
On tap at Growler & Gill, sharp lemon twist and creamy vanilla froth enhance stylish banana-clove-bubblegum sweetness. Bitter lemon pith riffs stay prominent, ultimately taking this hefeweizen in a whimsical direction.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, mildly creamed hopped-up wheat ale offers sharp lemon-candied grapefruit, orange and tangerine zest to peppery herbed wood-toned hop astringency. Subtly sugared wheat base counters wispy aspirin aftertaste.
Toasted Vienna-malted pale ale sets wavered caramelized sweetness against slick floral-citric spicing, leafy hop astringency, gluey cardboard riffs and earthen fungi mustiness. A bit unbalanced and stylishly nebbish.
