On tap at Taphouse 15, dry soft-toned NEIPA lets buttered grapefruit-orange salting and tropical pineapple-papaya-mango tang serenade sedate wildflower and apple blossom honeyed oated wheat base. Dank piney hop bittering stays distant.
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OAKFLOWER MONEY TREE
On tap at Taphouse 15, ‘aggressively dry-hopped’ New England IPA collab with new Morris Plains brewery, Autodidact, puts lemony orange peeled peach and pineapple tang across light vegetal herbage and atop buttery pale malts. Lacks stylish oats-creamed sour yogurt dimension.
DECIDUOUS SPACE BETWEEN NEW ENGLAND IPA
On tap at Ambulance, OK collab with Pittsburgh’s Dancing Gnome Beer. Lightly spiced lemon zesting surges as orange marmalade, candied pineapple and tart white grapefruit reach mild vanilla-creamed pale malt pasting.
SOUTHERN GRIST ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2022 REDUX
Zestful 2022 redux brewed once a year to celebrate brewers’ anniversary is superb. Luxurious double dry-hopped NEIPA with sunny Mosaic-Citra-Vic Secret-hopped tropicalia allows juicy lemon-spiced orange peel tang and mildly embittered yellow grapefruit splash to pick up dank herbal resin as well as perfumed juniper bite above creamily oated wheat base. Versatile fruited profile gains ancillary salted mango, white peach, pineapple, mandarin orange and tangerine illusions.
HEAVY REEL BRING OUT THE GOON INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Pompton Craft House, effervescently soft-toned NEIPA with resonant Mosaic/Citra-hopped yellow grapefruit, orange rind and pineapple zesting gains musty cannabis-like Strata-hopped dryness as well as mild lemon-limed gooseberry, guava and white grape bittering. Creamy oated wheat base stays sturdy. Recommended.
DEPARTED SOLES FLUTIE FLAKES NEIPA
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, waxy vodka-licked tropical fruiting picks up buttery hop oiling above lightly creamed oated wheat spine. Lemony pineapple, grapefruit and orange rind dryness contrasts peachy tangerine tang.
SOMA DOCKSIDE HAZY IPA
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, dry NEIPA brings yellow grapefruit-peeled pineapple zesting to wood-dried grassy hop astringency countering honeyed oated wheat sweetness in centrist manner. Needs deeper malt penetration.
ROOT + BRANCH INFILTRATOR IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, salty lemony grapefruit bittering meets Nelson Sauvin-hopped white wining and waxy mango-skinned guava tartness above lightly creamed oated wheat. At the finish, vodka-licked tropical fruit shellac guards dank grassy stead.
ASLIN BRINGING SEXY BACK INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, modest NEIPA sparked by tropical fruited tanginess but lacking creamy oated wheat substance. Evenly dispersed pineapple, mango, guava and passionfruit tang saddled by earthen pine resin and oniony garlic wisp.
ICARUS CAMEL CLUTCH IMPERIAL IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, heavily oated creaming tingled by salty green grape tannins, sour gooseberry-guava tartness, pineapple yogurt milking and mild mandarin orange sweetness in grassy dry-hopped citrus hop stead.
NEPENTHE SPACE JELLYFISH INDIA PALE ALE
Juicy tropical abundance of double dry hopped NEIPA forwards zesty lemon thrust to tangy orange-peeled grapefruit and pineapple zing before letting salty mango-guava-papaya conflux add sour edge. Grassy hop resin, herbal residue and mild pine burrow into lacquered citrus finish. Creamily oated rye base stays firm.
FINBACK ENTANGLED FATES IPA
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, lemony pineapple and grapefruit zesting (Motueka hops) settles alongside salty guava and green grape souring (Kohatu/Nelson Sauvin hops) tempered by lacquered floral-tinged pine needling.
