Perfectly rounded medium body brings sugar-spiced candy glaze to yellow grapefruit brightness, sunny lemon zest, tangy orange juiciness and tart pineapple sweetness. A sharp tropical-fruited delight, its escalating piney hop bittering, wafting floral bouquet and peppery dash deepen the spruce-tipped mango, peach, tangerine, nectarine, passionfruit and quince subsidies.
Maybe nectarine adjunct could be more prominent, but pilsner-like lager yeast provides safe bed for fruity moderation. Juicy nectarine tang, while not lingering, still picks up light peach, mango, grapefruit and orange tropicalia as well as tingly ginger spicing above sharp phenol hop bittering.
“Bold” tropical-fruited bitter lets sweet floral waft contrast sharp hop-oiled pungency, resinous pine sapping and green tea herbage. Lemony grapefruit-peeled orange pith bittering rises up against tangy pineapple-mango-peach-nectarine juicing, settling above brisk wildflower-honeyed sinew. Outstanding for hardened hop-heads.
“Cleaner, meaner and less bitter” dry-hopped medium body utilizes Citra, El Dorado, and Mosaic varietal to help differentiate from brewers’ similarly detailed Evil Claw Fist Imperial Amber. Approachable hop-spiced fruiting receives creamy caramel malting as IPA-like orange-peeled yellow grapefruit tang gains strength alongside tertiary red apple, red grape, red cherry, mango, tangerine, pear, pineapple and peach tones.
Boldly swaggering Vienna lager loads sharp Citra-Simcoe dry hops atop oily pine resin, sweet floral perfuming and caramelized amber grain toasting. Vibrant orange-peeled yellow grapefruit tang and zesty lemon zing brighten tertiary mango, pineapple, peach, apple and pear fruiting. A fine crossover for middle-of-the-road IPA lovers.
A meal in a bottle! Peppery Belgian yeast infests lemon-dried herbal resilience, tart orange-spiced respite and rye-toasted honeyed oats spine. Well-balanced, if strangely designated, biere de garde, seemingly crosses dewy Extra Special Bitter crisping with herbal white-peppered Abbey ale musk.
Stylishly complex American pale ale retains brisk mineral-grained water crisping that smooths out lemony dry-hopped bittering, glutenous wheat-rye-whey conflux and herb-tinged earthiness.
“Balmy,” yellow-cleared, double dry-hopped pale ale retains balance and roundedness as tangy grapefruit, orange, pineapple, mango and tangerine tropicalia receives mustily reedy dewiness and raw grained minerality (reminiscent of an Extra Special Bitter) above sweet crystal malting. Never overwhelming bitter. On tap at Triton – Long Beach Island, vibrant grapefruit-peeled orange zest and sweet pineapple juicing zinged lightly pined juniper hop bittering with uncompromising sturdiness.
Fine golden blonde German styled pilsner boasts imperious motto: ‘Don’t float the mainstream.’ And that bold statement holds true by bringing pungent lemon bittering to grassy floral-spiced Saaz hops, earthen wood minerality and grain-roasted lager malts in an efficient manner.
Lupulin-hued green label of clear-yellowed pils promotes ‘mild’ German hops (as opposed to bitter American varietal). Honeyed cereal grains leave influence on softly creamed tongue. But skunked sour malt aromatics deprive sourdough base.
Ultimately bland Belgian pale ale fails due to unconvincing Hallertau hop presence and unwanted cider souring. Fluffy carbolic fizz overwhelms soggy grain malting and light citric effervescence.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, coppery medium-bodied Belgian pale ale compares favorably to easygoing session lager. But grassy-hopped corn-maize astringency drags down blue-collar mediocrity. Dry rye wheat urging and wispy baguette toasting moderate musty fungi earthiness, allowing light honeyed creaminess to sweeten wavering raisin-breaded quince-pear fruiting. Nastily skunked canned version picked up sour malt liquor solvency and rancid cider derivation – an unfathomable drain pour way worse than draught option.
