Refreshingly fruity summertime medium body loads juicy tangerine peel sunshine atop grassy citric hop astringency. Its tangy tangerine tagline gains sweet orange peel luster and wispy vodka nip. Convincing tangerine candy.
YAZOO HOP PERFECT IPA
Chameleonic medium body connects herb-tinged yellow grapefruit and orange zest entry to mildly spiced caramel malts. Lemon-juiced tangerine tang picks up phenol residue. Mild grassy hop astringency lingeringly contrasts baked biscuit malting beneath the herbal fruited surface.
BARRIER ARCHIBALD
Understated English-style barleywine offers lovely toffee-spiced sweetness and butterscotch-candied sugaring to earthen hop astringency. But mildly boozy Scotch, brandy and sherry licks become slightly oxidized, causing lesser vanilla, praline and pecan niceties to falter.
EPIC LIL’ BRAINLESS RASPBERRY ALE
Less enthusiastic L’il canned version gets a tad washed out as easygoing lemon-soured raspberry puree adjunct gains mild acidity above clean-watered minerality. Musty cherry wisp falters and light white wheat spine falters.
ROBIN HOOD BIERFASS HEFEWEIZEN
On tap at Denny’s Beer Barrel, lemon-soured moderation gains temperate banana-rotted clove and bubblegum sweetness above desolate white wheat spine.
FLAGSHIP AMERICAN WIT
Brisk light-bodied witbier contrasts mild white-peppered lemony grapefruit bittering and pleasing herbal nip against sweet banana-clove dalliance and mandarin orange wisp above doughy wheat base. On tap at Valhalla, stylish lemony orange-peeled coriander spicing and delicate herbal nuances came thru.
LEFT HAND TRAVELIN’ LIGHT KOLSCH
Dry light-bodied kolsch brings corn-husked maize astringency, hay-like straw acridity and soda cracker neutrality to yellow-fruited whir. Wispy herbal lemongrass snip and apple skin tannins fade fast.
PEAK ORGANIC HOLIDAY SAISON
Lilting sweet ‘n sour saison yeast gains pleasantly festive sugar-spiced ginger snap, sweet pumpkin pie reminder, zesty orange peel briskness and subtle banana tartness above mild dry hop bittering.
DEMENTED ASTARTE STRAWBERRY CREAM ALE
Thinly fruited moderation. Washed-out strawberry adjunct bettered by subsidiary ginger-spiced cinnamon stick sugaring, tart lemon snicker and delicate Graham Cracker spine. Phenol carbolic fizz hinders candied strawberry tartness as well as wispy cornbread reminder. Veiled flavors defy daringly creative cream ale.
CROOKED LADDER PONQUOGUE PORTER
Musky dark-roast hop char meets ashen dark chocolate acridity, cocoa-powdered bittering, sour-milked raw molasses sinew and burnt pumpernickel toasting for boldly harsh full body. Mildly vinous grape esters increase overall bitterness.
EVIL TWIN SOUR BIKINI
Modestly soured pale ale lets mildly acidic lemon rind tartness and vinous yellow grape bittering pick up oceanic alkaline saltiness, causing toned-down brettanomyces-like pungency to increase sourness.
ALEMENTARY HACKENSACK LAGER
On tap at Midland Brew House, dry corn-husked oats graining guides mildly spiced citric-herbal Saaz hop pep of adequate Helles Lager. Crisp, clean and just a tad bolder than similarly styled Bavarian fare.
