One step beyond Lucid Dyno’s 5.2% ABV (weighing in at 6.5%) and featuring a darker amber hue and sharper citric fruiting, off-dry India Pale Ale caresses dainty floral bouquet with lemon-perfumed navel orange, yellow grapefruit, pineapple, mango and tangerine tang. Toasted caramel malting plus sugary pecan-praline-vanilla conflux sweeten light spruce tones. A beautifully designed and crisply clean-watered medium body striking a balance between sessionable midrange and hop-headed delirium.
LUCID DYNO
Explosive ‘full bore hop hot rod’ brings brisk dry-bodied India Pale Ale fruiting to herbal-nipped earthen graining and modestly astringent hop bittering. Juicy grapefruit-orange-pineapple zing and sunny lemon zest pick up crisp carbolic prickle at sharp citric-spiced finish.
LUCID AIR
Enlightened deep amber-hazed blonde ale lives up to its transcendental name with effervescent tropical fruited tranquility and sublime witbeir-like orange-peeled coriander wisp. Summery mango, lemon meringue, key lime pie and orange marmalade tang helps sweeten honeyed wheat spine of heavenly light-bodied Minnesotan.
FARGO SOD-BUSTER PORTER
Middling Baltic-styled porter in a can brings soy-sauced peat smoke and sour-creamed Baker’s chocolate to musty dried fruiting. Charred earthen sod dirties up fig, date and yellow raisin souring at burnt toast bottom.
FARGO WOOD CHIPPER IPA
‘Classic’ midrange India Pale Ale in a can offers oats-dried pale malting and toasted caramel sweetness to stylish piney citrus hop dryness. Lemony orange tartness and subsidiary mango-papaya-melon conflux stay subtle. Serve to pale ale fans as sharper alternative.
FARGO IRON HORSE PALE ALE
Utilizing a similar flavor profile as Fargo’s Wood Chipper IPA, floral-perfumed citrus hop briskness receives creamy caramel sugaring. Prominent yellow grapefruit tang gains lemony peach-mango tropicalia that mellows out above honeyed pale malting of canned moderation.
FARGO STONE’S THROW SCOTTISH ALE
Slightly askew Scottie in a can oddly arranges dewy peat malting, ‘residual honey sweetness’ and casual dried fruiting. Nutty brown tea waver envelops fig-dried green grape tartness, mild mandarin orange twist and light cocoa smear at the back end.
FARGO WIND SWEPT BELGIAN-STYLE WITBIER
Sweet orange-peeled coriander expectancy and tart lemon-juiced green grape lilt of canned witbier picks up dry herbal remnant. Delicate white-peppered fern, rosemary and thyme seasoning drapes meditative citric spicing.
(DE PROEF) WEKKEN SOUR BELGIAN ALE
Well-designed collaboration works creamy mocha malting of Colorado’s Left Hand Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout into sour-candied dried fruiting of Belgium’s De Proef Zoetzuur Flemish Red. The result is an uncompromisingly complex blend soaking musky cherry-dried red grape, plum, prune and fig desiccation with Blackstrap molasses-enriched black chocolate roast. Underneath the surface, ashen hop char contrasts chocolate-covered Maraschino cherry tartness and wispy bourbon-burgundy wining.
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PARALLEL 49 GYPSY TEARS RUBY ALE
Murky floral-fruited red ale spicing and honeyed caramel toasting contrast leafy dry-hopped resin of whiskey-nipped moderate-to-medium body. Metallic sheen disrupts India Pale Ale-like grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and tertiary pineapple, peach and cherry illusions.
DOS EQUIS INVIERNO WINTER BOCK
Lackadaisical Vienna-lagered winter bock is stylishly thin and apprehensive. Meager caramel-toasted toffee sweetness and faint honeyed molasses sugaring fade quickly. Wispy hop spicing and dry peat whim need a severe push up.
FOOLPROOF AUGTOBERFEST
On tap at Doherty’s, delightful autumnal moderation (circa 2015) works well within its limited stylistic range. Sweet honey-glazed orange spritz and dry lemon tartness dampened by leafy hop resin above light caramel malting. In the deep recess, dry earthen wood tones contrast sugared citrus spicing.
