On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, superb ‘dessert beer’ highlights pink Himalaya-salted brown chocolate luxuriance and coconut-flaked marshmallow sugaring above honeyed Graham Cracker malting. Re-creating a Samoan cookie with unrivaled success, it’s also similar to a S’mores campfire treat. Yummy.
On tap at Curley’s, lovely golden-hued mocha stout cushions fulsome Guatemalan coffee roast with flaked barley-oats and dark chocolate malting. Fertile creamed coffee decadence lingers way above astringent hop char. Golden delight. Five years hence, canned version let milk-sugared Guatemalan coffee frontage fade into caramelized cream soda midst contrasting green peppered celery watering over mild barley-oats flaked sweetness.
On tap at Curley’s, easygoing English barleywine brings tingly brown-sugared molasses sweetness to quaint orange-peeled red cherry, red grape, plum and banana piquancy as well as vanilla whiskeyed snip above flaked barley-oats cushion. Caramel malt base contrasts grassy hop astringency beneath the lightly ethanol fruit-spiced surface.
On tap at Biggie’s, perfumed orange-peeled pineapple and grapefruit tang given sour lemon respite and sticky pine sapping above sugary pale oats malting of refined moderate-to-medium body. Grassy hop astringency stays low as tertiary peach, mango and tangerine illusions flitter below. Slight plastique waxiness wavers.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, satisfactory double dry-hopped middleweight lets moderately bitter grapefruit, pineapple and orange tropicalia gain mild hop acidity and piney sidebar to absorb its juicy fruiting.
Another highly praised Alchemist elixir (alongside world famous Heady Topper). Sharp lemony orange rind and grapefruit peel bittering picks up resinous pine-needled cannabis dankness. Juicy mango-tangerine-peach tang and tart gooseberry-passionfruit piquancy deepen initial grapefruit-orange luster over lightly creamed crystal malts in well-balanced manner.
Totally streamlined and a bit stylistically unassuming, yet quite quenchable. Sweet-spiced grapefruit and orange tang as well as mild dark-roast graininess embittered by resinous piney hop char and mild juniper snip as ashen aftertaste ensues.
Murkily hazed amber-browned New England-styled IPA allows juicy lemony grapefruit bittering to surge past sweet peach-pineapple-mango-tangerine tang and delicate herbal spicing. Creamily frothed caramel malting lingers behind, contrasting mild coniferous pining below pureed citrus overtures.
Sufficient stylistic rep blends moderately bitter orange-peeled lemon rind acidity, sharp piney hop resilience and mild juniper nip with onrushing peach-mango-pineapple-melon-tangerine tang.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, promising New England-styled IPA blends tropical El Dorado and Galaxy hops with floral wood-dried Amarillo hops for stylishly dryer medium body. Parched lemony grapefruit bittering contrasts milder pineapple, passionfruit and peach tanginess above sugary pale malt spine.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, approachable amber-yellow hazed Northeast-styled India Pale Ale retains stylishly juicier tropical hop stomp, richer malt bill and softer mouthfeel. Lemony orange-grapefruit tang gains moderate bitterness towards the middle as tertiary mango-papaya-kiwi illusions flutter behind.
