On tap at Seven Lakes Station, smoothly creamed medium body lets sunny dry-hopped yellow grapefruit and navel orange tang lead the way above mildly dank piney hop bittering. Laid-back pineapple, mango, peach and banana fruiting adds to summertime feel.
On tap at Ambulance, tropical dry-hopped medium body lets lupulin-dusted green papaya, mango, honeydew and wild berry juicing gain pronounced lemony grapefruit bittering. Pertinent citric-pined hop oiling zaps underlying creamy crystal-pale malt sweetness.
On tap at Ambulance, unassuming 8.5% ABV allows lemony grapefruit bittering and candied orange tartness to spread across mildly pungent grassy-hopped pine resin without disturbance. At the finish, lightly spiced citrus zest lingers above biscuity cara-pils malting.
On tap at Ambulance, juicy-fruited beige-hazed medium body allows Citra-Moteuka-Galaxy hops to forward tropical ambience. Tangy orange-peeled mango, pineapple, peach, papaya and guava gambit gains sweet pale-pilsner-Vienna malting to contrast muted citric hop bittering at the finish.
On tap at Biggie’s, perfumed orange-peeled pineapple and grapefruit tang given sour lemon respite and sticky pine sapping above sugary pale oats malting of refined moderate-to-medium body. Grassy hop astringency stays low as tertiary peach, mango and tangerine illusions flitter below. Slight plastique waxiness wavers.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, satisfactory double dry-hopped middleweight lets moderately bitter grapefruit, pineapple and orange tropicalia gain mild hop acidity and piney sidebar to absorb its juicy fruiting.
Another highly praised Alchemist elixir (alongside world famous Heady Topper). Sharp lemony orange rind and grapefruit peel bittering picks up resinous pine-needled cannabis dankness. Juicy mango-tangerine-peach tang and tart gooseberry-passionfruit piquancy deepen initial grapefruit-orange luster over lightly creamed crystal malts in well-balanced manner.
Totally streamlined and a bit stylistically unassuming, yet quite quenchable. Sweet-spiced grapefruit and orange tang as well as mild dark-roast graininess embittered by resinous piney hop char and mild juniper snip as ashen aftertaste ensues.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, taut Mosaic lupulin powdering deepens lemony grapefruit-tangerine tang above moderate piney evergreen bittering for delightful IPA. Effervescent citrus spritz lingers resoundingly.
