Soft-toned, double dry-hopped, nickel-hazed IPA allows mild lemony grapefruit bittering and peachy mango-guava tang to float above frothy vanilla-creamed oated white wheat base. Lemon meringue, orange marmalade and advertised ‘guava jelly, mango chiffon cake and coconut milk’ illusions flutter gently.
ASPIRE JUBILATE HEFEWEIZEN
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, fizzy lemon liming nearly obscures banana-clove sweetness to its creamy sourdough wheat base. Yet a certain sinewy honeyed yeast clouding thickens its texture (as sharp cider sneaks in).
EDMUND’S OAST CEREAL FOR DINNER BLONDE ALE
On tap at Pompton Craft House, outstanding adjunct blonde ale allows toasted almond and coconut to sway lightly creamed milk-sugared vanilla sweetness as fizzy lemon pizzazz brightens pleasantly soft-toned moderation. Snazzy praline, honeyed granola, spice cake and lemon coconut almond cake illusions hover thru nutty cereal graining.
MONTAUK THE SURF BEER GOLDEN ALE
Crisply clean beach time light body with salty lemon spritz prickling dry pale malting. Soft-toned orange, grapefruit and pineapple tang picks up herb-spiced tingle. Sessionable.
SAMUEL SMITH PURE BREWED ORGANIC PALE ALE
Sturdy Brit-styled dry pale ale lets mild creamy vanilla froth linger softly for gentle caramelized whiskey sweetness, dry Scotch spot and salted pale malt buttering as fizzy lemony orange spritz prickles the tongue. Totally demure and quite satisfying for all moderate bodied thirsts.
BLUESTONE BIG ELK AMBER ALE
Polite caramelized amber grain roast set in dewy peat moss picks up crisp tobacco leafiness bettering latent orange-oiled phenol spicing. Serve to Killians Red fans as slightly better alternative.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS ANY BEER
On tap at Growler & Gill, easygoing ‘classic’ dry lager with spritzy Citra-Cascade-hopped lemon fizz reaches honeyed cereal graining and flaked corn crisping. Briskly sessionable.
BARRELHAUS BIG PLUCKIN’ PILS
On tap at Taphouse 15, crisply clean German-styled pilsner sidles wildflower-honeyed lemon rind bittering with musky mineral graining, doughy white breading, grassy Noble hop mustiness and mild black peppered herbage.
KCBC DIAMOND DRAGON PILSNER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dry golden-paled Polish-styled light body lets raw honeyed pilsner malting leaven doughy white bread sweetness while mild lemony herbal bittering buttresses grassy hop astringency.
UNTIED ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN MILK STOUT
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dry burnt coffee roast entry receives bittersweet chocolate, burnt caramel and charred walnut backup as distant cherry-plum snips waver.
UNTIED UNCHARTED DEPTHS BELGIAN DARK ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, fine Belgian strong ale lets candi-sugared fig, date and plum spicing glaze chocolate-malted caramelized rye base. At the midst, spritzy orange zesting soaks wintry ginger, nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon seasoning.
UNTIED PIONEER AMBER ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dewy Extra Special Bitter leaves earthen nuttiness and cocoa powder upon Maris Otter-malted caramelized rye base.
