‘Heavily fruited sour ale’ (with murkily milked purplish hue) stays sharp as tart blueberry-banana adjuncts and limey orange juice acidity gain milk-sugared vanilla sweetener. Salted pineapple-licked oaken cherry tartness, fig-dried prune slumber and setback pink grapefruit zesting deepen kettle-soured blueberry and banana frontage.
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BOLERO SNORT MELE KALIKIMAKOW KETTLE SOUR
When it’s not promoting penetratingly puckered strawberry, banana, coconut and pineapple adjuncts, progressively tart rust-hazed kettle sour recalls salty Margarita or citric-juiced Mimosa champagne. Creamily rich banana sweetness gains sour lemon liming as strawberry rhubarb, milked coconut and zesty pineapple illusions enjoin tangy peach-mango subtleties.
BOLERO SNORT BULL & TED DOUBLE IPA
Briskly clean cryo-hopped mosaic maintains sweet orange-peeled pineapple tang and mild yellow grapefruit bittering over pasty wheat-sugared flaked oats base. Brisk vodka-nipped citric continuance gains grassy hop astringency at the tropical fruit finish.
BOLERO SNORT SEEING DOUBULL DOUBLE IPA
Tidy sugar-spiced tropical fruited tanginess shines as lemon zest brightens pineapple-juiced grapefruit, orange and tangerine pleasantry over oats-flaked crystal malts. Mild grassy-hopped bittering picks up slight scallion peppering beneath the surface. Another smoothly detailed cryo hopped IPA.
BOLERO SNORT BUCK 2000 MIMOSA-INSPIRED IMPERIAL LAGER
Fermented on tangerine and orange, Mimosa-inspired champagne novelty seems off-balance as musky pale malt lagering and dull herbal respite never fully integrate with citric-wined champale sparkle.
BOLERO SNORT BLUEBERRY’S MOOTHIE
Blueberry Smoothie knockoff works milk-sugared vanilla extract and salty lemon-limed bitterness into tart blueberry pucker for creamily salted yogurt-like setting. Soda-like blueberry sweetness contrasts highly acidic nature as sour navel orange juicing and wispy cranberry snips ripen ‘berry’ goodness.
BOLERO SNORT TANGERINE’S MOOTHIE
Tangerine Smoothie knockoff becomes increasingly tart as high lactose milk acidity and salted lemon pucker gain grapefruit-embittered frozen concentrated orange juicing. Sweet ‘n sour ambrosial tangerine continuance gains slight vanilla-creamed sweetness at the citric-steadied finish.
BOLERO SNORT COWTHULHU IMPERIAL GOSE
Fascinatingly designed magenta-bodied, pink-headed gose with sweet ‘n sour blackberry, blueberry and elderberry tartness picks up concentrated orange juicing over sea-salted coriander spicing in fizzy soda-like setting. Tangy berry mesh soon gains eye-squinting Meyer lemon peel bittering for further luster.
BOLERO SNORT PUMPKIN SPICE MOOCHIATO
Busily robust milk stout conditioned on coffee and Madagascar vanilla beans retains subdued pumpkin pie-spiced sweetness. Creamy latte macchiato insistence heightens ginger-snapped cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice adjuncts while ginger molasses cookie, chocolate mint, cola and hazelnut illusions make cameos.
BOLERO SNORT I BLESS THE REINS IPA
On tap at River Of Beer, sunshiny Citra-like South African lupulin dusting provides boisterous grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and auxiliary pineapple-mango-papaya tang that rides above creamy oats-flaked vanilla spicing.
BOLERO SNORT / LISTERMANN DAY BULL DE NIGHTBULL COMETH IMPERIAL MILK STOUT
Melding chili-peppered cocoa and cinnamon adjuncts to cocoa-dried dark chocolate syrup, lactic milk stout collaboration (with Ohio’s Listermann Brewing) picks up black cherry-pureed bourbon licks, relegating its ashen hop-charred bittering. Effectively efficient cinnamon-peppered cocoa quencher.
BOLERO SNORT BREWERY
CARLSTADT, NEW JERSEY
After gypsy brewing at Jersey’s High Point, Czig Meister and Alementary since January 2013, BOLERO SNORT BREWERY entrepreneur Robert Olson finally expanded his empire to include a large, high ceilinged, 16,000 square-foot, aluminum Industrial building within the Meadowlands in Carlstadt.
Since Bolero Snort’s at the doorstep of Giants Stadium and the horse track, getting curious brewpub enthusiasts thru the door won’t be a problem. Olson’s varied, oft-experimental beer designs span the stylish spectrum as offbeat hybrids, barrel-aged endeavors, whimsical one-offs, cocktail knockoffs and sour ales with bovine taglines get interspersed with more traditional fare.
A 24-tap L-shaped serving station at the gray cement-floored, garage-doored, right side ground level featuring three TV’s, barreled tables and Edison lights is situated next to the abundant open space holding the vast brewing equipment.
An upstairs lodge (with ten draught taps and three picnic tables) overlooks the brewing operations that includes a huge grain silo, several sterling silver tanks, kettle sour barrels, a canning line and fermenters atop a silver-and-red floor seemingly dedicated to Olson’s high school, Bergen Catholic.
My wife and I perused Bolero Snort, February 1, 2020, two weeks after its snowy grand opening.
Muskily dry light body, Hooffa, a heady barnyard-leathered German-styled pilsner with herbal cologne-perfumed lemon licks and dark floral remnants.
Lemony pineapple-candied grapefruit zest crowded spicy pale malts and grassy hop astringency for IPA-tinged wheat beer, Grazer, relegating earthen dewy mossing and cellared fungi mustiness atop a delicate cracked wheat spine.
Minty watermelon tartness fortified Watermelon + Mint Grazer, a nifty spinoff with melon rind earthiness, sour lemondrop whim and recessive vodka-ginned alcohol nip.
Mild ‘hoppy ale,’ BullYum, brought lightly heated Thai chili peppering to ginger-minted lime dryness and latent green tea-like bittering.
Salty lemon-limed Margarita knockoff, Coconut BullYum, stayed mild as wispy Thai chili peppering serenaded limey coconut tartness and subtle ginger herbage.
Maple -sugared cherry and vanilla sweeten Cherry + Vanilla Bu’ll Be Bock, a lactic dessert-like confection with mildly pungent citric hop astringency rubbing against dark cherry-pureed caramel malting.
Lemon-spiced grapefruit, orange and pineapple zest fronted Hello…My Bull Pen Is…, a Citra-hopped moderation with celery watered crisping and soft dry wood tones.
Conditioned on peanut butter, amber-hazed NEIPA, Dirty SnowBull Fights, brought milk-sugared vanilla to lactic yogurt-soured pineapple tartness, yellow grapefruit rind bittering, zesty orange peel juicing and piney underbrush, leaving only a meager peanut-oiled influence.
During cold February ’22 stopover before Sunday dinner, tried two fine IPA’s, one fruited sour and a stout (three of which were interesting collaborations).
Salty candied citrus tartness gains lactic milk sugaring for Calf Life Fruited Sour, bringing sweetly soured dragonfruit, guava and pineapple adjuncts to the fore alongside vibrant yellow grapefruit and navel orange zesting.
A collab with Melovino Meadery, Hexagon Treasure NEIPA let orange blossom honey dryly saturate lemony grapefruit, clementine and mandarin briskness as its ever-present chili pepper burn spreads across the raw-honeyed citric finish.
In alliance with fellow Jersey brewer, Icarus, golden-glowed Imperial IPA, WhyKickAMooCow, placed lightly acidic lactic yeast souring inside the cleanly crisp lupulin-powdered yellow grapefruit, mandarin and tangerine zestfulness.
Partnering with Pennsylvania’s Abomination, cream-filled white chocolate cookie knockoff, Abominabull Imperial Milk Stout, embraced sugared coffee, bourbon vanilla, marshmallow and anise sweetness above its honeyed wheat base.
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