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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wonderful soft-tongued India Pale Ale brings tropical-fruited urgency and lightly honeyed caramel creaming to dry rye-spiced spine. Brisk Citra-Mosaic hop bite elevates tangy mango lead-in above juicy grapefruit, orange, tangerine, pineapple and necatarine sweetness. Assertive, well-integrated and crisply clean.
‘Gateway ale’ is brewers’ lightest offering despite sharply citric Cascade hop bittering and latent alcohol burn. Lemony orange-grapefruit tang rides above mild floral herbage and toasted caramel malting to delicate white wheat spine.
Broad-ranging sessionable Belgian pale ale (4.9% ABV) caresses white-peppered yellow fruiting with piquant honeyed herbage and hay-dried farmhouse acridity. Effervescent lemon zest, mild grapefruit tartness and tannic yellow grape esters enjoin sweet orange peel tang to contrast floral-dusted pink peppercorn, sage, rosemary, fennel and cilantro seasoning. Candi-sugared Belgian yeast spicing sweetens the engaging flavor profile.
Unconventional 2015 dark ale uses unprocessed turbinado sugaring and roasted chocolate wheat to thicken chewy molasses-honeyed Vienna malt sweetness above dry earthen hop restraint. At the midst, spicy anise goo spreads across massive mocha theme as hazelnut and walnut awaken the back end. Light coffee and toffee sentiments plus pipe tobacco aromatics find tertiary space alongside wispy burgundy-bourbon-port wining.
Sessionably straightforward moderate-to-medium body drapes honeyed fruiting over toasted caramel malting and relegated piney hop astringency. Musky earthen grain resin seeps into orange, grapefruit, pineapple, mango and peach tang at the midst. Slick enough for venturesome pale ale imbibers, yet hoppy enough for bitterer tastes.
Bold collaboration (with Norway’s Lervig) brewed with abundant Ethiopian coffee and black patent malts picks up lightly resinous Simcoe-Amarillo hop char as well as piney dried fruiting. Ascending coffee-sugared carafa roast elevates black molasses-dried espresso milking and sweet vanilla snip above tertiary dark cherry, plum, pineapple and yellow grapefruit remnant.
Engrossingly ‘funky dark sour ale’ aged in stainless steel red wine barrels crosses an oaken cherry-derived Flemish Red Ale with an equally tart Oud Bruin. Light brettanomyces bacteria provides leathery barnyard musk for vinous red grape tannins and lemony balsamic vinegaring. Dark Munich malt glop eaten up by persistent moderate acidity. Mellow cranberry, goosberry, raspberry and cranberry souring guards the earthen tobacco-dried back end. Fairly complex and velvety smooth ‘wild ale’ stays tame enough for lighter thirsts.
