On tap at Taphouse 15, “aggressively top fermented” hefe lets lemon-peppered lime spritz prickle stylish sourdough-sugared banana and clove sweetness. Slight banana nut bread, vanilla cake and cider illusions flutter and mild basil tea herbage felt below.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, easygoing pale wheat ale with mild lemon-candied grapefruit tartness contrasting spritzy orange peel sweetness as wispy currant and juniper berry snips flutter.
Easygoing aluminum cleared Mexican lager with spry lime spritzing pervading salted agave spicing, floral saffron sweetness and light herbal peppering.
On tap at Ambulance, ‘classic’ light-bodied Mexican-styled lager sprays spritzy lime seltzer fizziness all over as citric-soured Mandarina Bavaria hops and slight herbal musk increase limey guava-gooseberry tartness above crisp corn chip toasting.
On tap at Rebar – Lodi, pale golden Mexican-styled lager lets floral lemon limed agave spritz tickle light guava-mango salting, mild moldy grain musk and vegetal-tinged Noble hop herbage, leaving subtle piney juniper-berried grapefruit snip on the backend.
On tap at Taphouse 15, ‘light drinikin’ lager’ is actually a dry New Zealand-hopped pils with salty lemon liming and mild oily hop astringency reaching mineral grained pilsner malt stead. White grape esters, tart guava whim and white grapefruit snips increase summery tropicalia.
Crisply dry German-styled lawnmower fare betters most light pils with its upfront sourdough sweetness joined by floral-spiced lemon zesting, light herbal peppering and barley-cracked whiskey tones. Well-balanced simplicity.
“Assertively dry-hopped” German pilsner adds NEIPA-like grapefruit zesting, tannic green grape esters and earthen pine resin to lagered lemony orange tang, phenol spicing and corn-starched white breading.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, perhaps bettering all American light lagers under 95 calories, football’s Kelce brother’s team up for pleasantly unassuming aluminum-yellowed suds. Musty maize astringency meets sweet rice, phenol hop spicing and black peppery snip at dry mineral grained malt stead.
Crisp cold conditioning allows bulky German-styled pilsner to filter out any gunk from lemon-rotted grape tannins its Huell Melon hops promote, leaving dank cellar fungi, musky raw graining, root vegetable must and wafting compost upon roasted corn chip backend. Rustic.
On tap at Ambulance, spritzy lemon limed soda fizz drifts into frozen Limeaid Margarita brining and lemon limed elderberry lemonade tartness, gaining mild minty herbage over dainty oated pilsner malts. Betters most radlers.
Dry maize and wild oats receive astringent lemony hop tingle and cheap whiskey nip for easygoing, if indistinct, pale aluminum low-carb light lager. Lighter than popcorn and less salty.
