On tap at Growler & Gill, lovely fruit-forward milkshake IPA spreads milk-sugared marshmallow over peaches and cream entry as well as sour passionfruit, salty mango, sweet banana, candied cherry and freshly squeezed orange juice resilience. Yet it’s the sharp lemon-limed yellow grapefruit and pineapple zesting that shines thru at the confectionery orange creamsickle finish. Exuberantly excellent.
On tap at Ambulance, tartly tropical fruited medium body tempers Nelson Sauvin-hopped candied papaya, white grape, guava and pineapple thrust with Galaxy-hopped peach, orange and tangerine illusions as well as Enigma-hopped Pinto Gris tannins and green apple souring.
On tap at Draught Industries, adjunctive pale ale conditioned on ‘zested orange’ picks up salted lemony white grape esters and mild mandarin-tangelo-clementine snips. But it’s more like powdered soft drink, Tang, than a champagned Mimosa.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, zestful orange-grapefruit vibrancy plies to candied peach-pineapple-papaya tang and limey passionfruit-lychee souring over richly oated wheat base.
Lemony lime zesting bridges vodka-licked pink grapefruit, pineapple, passionfruit, peach, papaya and mango tang into lactose-infused crystal malt creaminess disguising fusel (8.2% ABV) esters of brewer’s heady Dreamwave Fluctuation offshoot.
On tap at Ambulance, ‘vivid yellow’ lactose-aided moderate-medium body collaboration with nearby District 96 resonates as lime-juiced passionfruit, pineapple and tangerine tanginess plus mild coconut-flaked sweetness reach lightly creamed caramel malt base in clean fashion.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, crushably soft-toned NEIPA pads subtle orange rind-embittered yellow grapefruit bittering and slightly soured strawberry-passionfruit-pineapple-papaya tropicalia to floral-spiced alacrity countering dank cannabis oiliness above pasty oats flaked malt gumming. Pleasantly offbeat.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dryer-than-stylish NEIPA brings limey cantaloupe-honeydew-melon-mango salting (and contrasting candied plum, fig and date sweetness) to grassy mildewed pine needling over gluey pale malts for Rakau/Galaxy-hopped Fractal offshoot.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dry lupulin flowered moderation relies on floral citrus hop sunshine to caress its dank pine resin. Subtle yellow grapefruit bittering, lemon rind souring and orange peel sweetness combine for soft-toned essence above tingly caramelized pale malt sugaring.
On tap at Growler & Gill, mildly lactose-soured grapefruit zesting picks up lemony Curacao orange tanginess, delicate floral spicing and slight pine pungency before reaching salty pale malt-dried bottom.
On tap at Draught Industries, juicy citrus onrush of eccentric NEIPA gains buttery vanilla-creamed orange Creamsickle sweetness contrasted by dank grassy-hopped hemp oiling and waxy fennel soaping over oats-sugared white wheat breading. Confectionary marshmallow sugaring regales honeydew, cantaloupe and passionfruit illusions at the brisk citrus-spiced finish.
On tap at Draught Industries, soft-toned ‘juicy elixir’ caresses mild orange-peeled grapefruit bittering with salty mango-guava tropicalia and tart lemon custard tartness over lactic vanilla creaming for ‘melon-flavored gummy bear’ knockoff. Brisk citrus-spiced Mosaic hops counter piney herbal Amarillo hops in IPA showdown.
