On tap at Taphouse 15, highly vinous lactose-free fruited sour ale blends sweetly sour mango pucker with bitter orange and tart passionfruit above leathery acidulated malting. Only true sour heads will delight.
Soft-tongued 'chocolate caramels' confection needs richer creaminess and less phenolic hop astringency as lactose-aided bittersweet chocolate fudging, subtle vanilla sugaring and wispy buttercream frosting never broaden the semi-sweet base.
Understated cherry, orange and pineapple convergence retains tartly dry edge for fruited kettle sour. Vinous green grape esters add light acidity to oaken cherry, desiccated orange and briny pineapple residue. A tad flattish.
Hazelnut-glazed maple pecan sweetness and mild oats sugaring contrast nutty hop char of confectionery dark chocolate-spiced stout. Tertiary bourbon vanilla, anise and toffee illusions flutter.
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, fine hybridized witbier reveals black-peppered rosebud flowering for sweet coriander-spiced orange peel zesting and mildly creamed white wheat malting. Floral citrus spicing gains herbal resonance over time.