On tap at Ambulance, tart saison with mint adjunct retains soft mouthfeel. Minty freshness stays recessive, providing distant candied sweetness to lemony orange tartness and sweet cider snip in a unique, if debatably unconvincing, manner. Approachable session beer will suit herbal citrus beer lovers.
KENT FALLS FARMERS TABLE 2 WITH BRETT & OAK
On tap at Ambulance, strangely appealing and well-balanced farmhouse hybrid blends light oaken brettanomyces bacteria into mellow green grape tannins and tart citric licks. Distant cotton-candied marshmallow sweetness counteracts more prominent dry yellow fruiting at mellow finish.
KENT FALLS FARMERS TABLE
On tap at Ambulance, light dry-hopped farmhouse ale brings subtle lemon-limed tartness to mild raw-honeyed black peppering, groaty maize acridity and reedy wood tones.
HILL FARMSTEAD CONDUCT OF LIFE
On tap at Ambulance, well-designed pale ale really brings zesty citric bittering to life. Lemony grapefruit-orange tang and subtler tangerine-pineapple-peach-mango illusions come to the fore. Pungent hardwood-floored Amarillo hops stabilize below grassy citra-hopped florality while aspirin-like solvency gains latent acidic sway.
TRINITY SUPER JUICE SOLUTION SOUR IPA
On tap at Ambulance, sessionably soft-tongued India Pale Ale hybrid utilizes lactobacillus yeast souring to affect soft salt-watered citric hop pungency, Granny Smith apple tartness, tannic green grape vinegaring and light peach-nectarine-mango tang. Wispy coriander spicing underscores reluctant lemony grapefruit pining. Polite mineral graining freshens funky citric-soured finish.
DEFIANT DEATH IMPERIAL STOUT – CASK
On tap at Ambulance, luxuriously rich cask-conditioned nightcap (with bold 16.5% ABV) retains creamily chewy brown-sugared black chocolate syruping and massive maple molasses sapping. Dark cocoa, toffee, coffee, burnt caramel, creme brulee and caffè macchiato illusions given dried-fruited black cherry, raisin and prune pureeing as well as burgundy-wined bourbon whir at sweetly candied mocha finish.
DEFIANT RESOLUTION #1 BELGIAN GOLDEN ALE
Cellar-aged over several years, Belgian ale gained mustily vinous white-wined acidity and green grape esters to contrast ginger-spiced cider sweetness. Mild alcohol burn fades above dry Chardonnay sedation, tart lemon acridity and honeyed pale malting. (2007 version shown below)
BROOKLYN RED SUMAC WIT
On tap at Doherty’s, heady 7.1% ABV heightens traditional witbier styling while foraged red sumac dryness drapes the usual Belgian yeast spicing, dainty orange peel tang and salty coriander-like spicing. Unmalted wheat graining adds light acridity to lemony gooseberry tartness, vinous green grape slake, green apple mist and cranberry pucker.
DU CLAW 13 DEGREES HEFEWEIZEN
High profile hefe drapes stylish banana-clove-coriander sweetness atop doughy wheat base as zesty lemon tingle, honeyed vanilla sugaring and floral herbage add resilience. Recessive orange, pineapple and peach tang as well as mild sunflower seeding softly affect lemony banana-clove profile.
FLYING DOG THE GOURD STANDARD PUMPKIN IPA
Bold pumpkin-pureed medium-full body brings reedy India Pale Ale-styled piney citrus bittering, vegetal gourd astringency and dry rye malting to sweet-spiced pumpkin pie midst. Yellow grapefruit bitterness deepens perfumed hop bounty contrasting cinnamon-nutmeg-clove-allspice sweetness.
HOPPIN’ FROG TURBO SHANDY CITRUS ALE
Superb summertime shandy beats all the cloyingly slick competition. Orange-juiced lemonade freshness sticks out above sweetened ginger ale herbage. Mild lemon pucker accompanies limey center. Hard-candied Jolly Rancher apple tartness, ruby red grapefruit tang and briskly carbolic 7-Up resilience fit perfectly with bittersweet lemon-sugared pucker.
RIVERTOWN LAMBIC AGED IN OAK WINE BARRELS
Seductive oak barrel-aged wining and wild barnyard-desiccated yeast create vinous green grape-soured apple cider pucker underscored by leathery lactic acidity. Lemon-seeded oaken cherry, raspberry vinaigrette, pomegranate, Chardonnay, yellow mustard and woodruff syrup illusions heighten wood-dried white wine sourness.
