Pleasant amber-reddish IPA takes the softer approach. Well-balanced medium body combines nutty pine comb resonance with molasses-breaded sugaring and moderated dried fruiting (scoffing typical stylistic citric pining). Bitter earthen hop graining lightened by delicate water base. Pecan, hazelnut and butternut illusions make deeper impression than tertiary black cherry, fig, raisin and prune reminders.
Lighter stylistic permutation with palest copper-hazed turbidity retains moderated grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and resinous dry-hopped pine tarring. At the citric finish, lemon-seeded pineapple tartness increases above corn-sugared crystal malting, earthen mineral graining and floral hibiscus-lotus notions.
On tap at Proletariat, sessionable easygoing charmer relies on lighter India Pale Ale-related stylistic illusions. Polite piney grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and minor juniper snip contrast tangy peach, mango, passionfruit, pineapple and melon tropicalia. In growler, moderated pine-lacquered orange and grapefruit bittering soaks tangy tropicalia juicing above toasted bread spine.
Placid medium body offers brisk orange-peeled grapefruit rind bittering and sharp wood-toned hop dryness to wispy peach-apple-tangerine-melon tang. Piney citric bittering deepened by ascending juniper bite over polite caramel malting and resinous minerality. After initial blunt bitterness recedes, West Coast IPA becomes too stylistically tame for hazing hopheads (yet efficient as crossover fodder for lighter pale ale thirsts).
Zesty pink grapefruit frontage picks up lemon-peeled orange, tangerine, apricot, pineapple and melon tang as raw-wooded pining saturates dry rye-breaded backend. Grassy Nelson Sauvin hops add slight white grape snip as sugary crystal malting begins to ascend over citric stead. A simple, yet effective, toned-down IPA perfect as crossover fodder for lighter thirsts.
Stylistically soft-toned and sweeter, relying just as much on sugary caramel malting as piney citric bittering. Grapefruit-peeled navel orange, peach, melon, mango, cherry and apricot tones rise above the fresh-cut grass stash. Resinous wood-lacquered florality polishes the receding finish.
Highly approachable IPA places spruce-sugared brown pear, yellow apple, red cherry, nectarine and pineapple fruiting against pine-combed yellow grapefruit bittering. Creamy crystal malting heightens the sweet side while plush floral spicing decorates the juicy fruited confines. Citric-oiled tangerine, clementine and navel orange undertones gain prominence over time.
Reserved draught-only reintroduction to New Jersey market, via 2013, takes soothing approach. Perfume-musked pine oils and grassy hops merge with zippy citric sparkle. Serene grapefruit-peeled lemon juicing careens off black currant bittering.
On tap at Taphouse Grille, elusive Anglo-American IPA (a.k.a. Horn of the Devil) brings musky dry-hopped mulled wine pungency to wayward lemon-curried grapefruit-orange rind bittering. Molasses-breaded honey tea sweetness fades in the background. In the bottle, Canadian-bred semi-hybrid combines English IPA-like dewy peat sweetness and earthen truffle shuffle with dried-fruited brown chocolate spicing of a weizenbock and toasted caramel malting of a red ale, leaving any citric-pined IPA flavoring in the dust.
