On tap at Pompton Craft House, tropical NEIPA combines lemony grapefruit bittering and sweet orange peel zesting with mild guava, mango, papaya, pineapple and peach tanginess, picking up piney respite over lightly creamed oats-flaked barley base. Another worthy Citra-Mosaic hopped India Pale Ale.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, tropical 9.5% ABV NEIPA crowds pulsating floral fruited hop bittering with resinous piney oiling contrasting mild oated creaminess. Lemony guava-passionfruit souring sidles orange-peeled grapefruit-pineapple-mango tanginess and peachy tangerine sweetness plus glassy vodka whim. Quite exquisite.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, zesty lemon-limed Motueka hop influence provides yellow grapefruit-forward profile punctuated by sour guava-gooseberry spell, vodka-licked orange tang and brisk crackling fizziness to creamy oated wheat base.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, lemon-desiccated grapefruit musk meets perfumed orange tang and candied pineapple tartness plus pleated pine pungency above dry pale-malted French breading.
On tap at Growler & Gill, limey guava, gooseberry and passionfruit souring and mild yellow grapefruit bittering contrast orange-candied vanilla Creamsicle trickle and distant cantaloupe-honeydew snips for dry New Zealand-hopped NEIPA.
Crayon-waxed guava-gooseberry combo awakens juicy pineapple tang and lemony grapefruit bittering of grassy-hopped New England-styled IPA with crisply cereal-grained pilsner malt base.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, wintry New England-styled IPA allows minty spruce tips to bring wintergreen Christmastime freshening to lemon-oiled juniper licks, juicy pineapple tanginess, orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and lavender cologne musk in quirkily unique mix.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dry hazy IPA utilizes ‘Southern Hemisphere’ hops (Nelson Sauvin/Galaxy/Strata) to allow sour guava-gooseberry tartness to infiltrate lemon and orange rind-embittered grapefruit tanginess, resinous piney insistence, dry herbal perfuming, sharp juniper bite and earthen musk atop wispily creamed oated wheat. A bitter hophead delight.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, juicily grapefruit-forward NEIPA receives lemony herbal respite, tart passionfruit-guava whim and dry pine bittering but lacks stylishly sour New Zealand hop edge and enough oated wheat malts to deepen its easygoing profile. Genetically modified thiolieze yeast softens tropical fruitedness.
On tap at Ambulance, soft-tongued creaminess gains Fruity Pebbles likeness for experimental Idaho-based Ocho hop-derived moderation. Dainty honeyed citrus continuance leaves lemony orange, grapefruit and tangerine serenity on mild resinous pine settling above rice-sugared oats base.
On tap at Ambulance, standard IPA lacks stylish fruit-soured oated creaming of New England misnomer. Adjunctive wildflower honeyed bittering absorbs dry yellow grapefruit and orange rind pungency and mild pineapple-guava tartness above grassy hop stead, but musky piney-hopped dry pale malting remains murky.
On tap at Taphouse 15, sunshiny dry-hopped New England pale ale recalls its ‘bigger’ IPA styling as bittersweet grapefruit-peeled pineapple tang and mildly salted gooseberry-guava souring reach creamy oated wheat base.
