Mellow oak-toasted barrel aging smooths out below softly creamed caramel malting and tropical-fruited Cascade hop briskness. Mild alcohol astringency emerges alongside lemony yellow grapefruit, navel orange, mandarin orange and tangerine tang while herbaceous basil, fern and rosemary seasoning adds complexity. But its frail white bread spine falters, allowing the ripe fruity aspects to slip thru the resinous pine-wooded cracks.

Charming caramel-spiced yellow fruiting and resinous earthen grains outduel gooseberry-dried Nelson Sauvin-hopped white wining. Laid-back lemony orange-grapefruit souring contrasts sweet tangerine tang of dependable moderate-medium body.

On tap at Plank Pizza, sharply embittered medium body given musky dry-hopped pungency and rotted yellow-fruited phenolics that will satisfy manly Czech pilsner imbibers or bolder Bavarian lager quaffers. Dank lemon putridity and tart orange desiccation rise above hay-like acridity of amped-up pale ale.

Summery moderation with IPA-fruited leanings brings lemony grapefruit zest plus tangy mandarin orange, mango, peach and passionfruit tropicalia to light piney hop bittering. Restrained orange blossom herbage, delicate floral tea nip and distant oats-flaked mineral graining embrace casual citric-sugared finish.

Coming across like a Brit-styled Extra Special Bitter with its raw-grained rye dryness, mild lemon tea sugaring and biscuit-y malt base, sly moderate-bodied pale ale retains lightly pungent minerality. Herb-tinged grassy hops provide soft bittering as fennel, pumpernickel and wheatgrass illusions fill the gaps.

Sessionable canned moderation lacks fortitude as light honey-spiced lemon twist evaporates above bready wheat spine. Crisp and clean, yet ultimately forgettable.

On tap at Ambulance, well-designed pale ale really brings zesty citric bittering to life. Lemony grapefruit-orange tang and subtler tangerine-pineapple-peach-mango illusions come to the fore. Pungent hardwood-floored Amarillo hops stabilize below grassy citra-hopped florality while aspirin-like solvency gains latent acidic sway.

Spunkily sessionable pale ale gathers zesty grapefruit-peeled tangerine tang, softly lingered lemon pit pungency and wispy IPA-like pining. Dry as hell to its salty bottom without getting overly astringent or acrid.

Explosive ‘full bore hop hot rod’ brings brisk dry-bodied India Pale Ale fruiting to herbal-nipped earthen graining and modestly astringent hop bittering. Juicy grapefruit-orange-pineapple zing and sunny lemon zest pick up crisp carbolic prickle at sharp citric-spiced finish.

Utilizing a similar flavor profile as Fargo’s Wood Chipper IPA, floral-perfumed citrus hop briskness receives creamy caramel sugaring. Prominent yellow grapefruit tang gains lemony peach-mango tropicalia that mellows out above honeyed pale malting of canned moderation.

On tap at Doherty’s, extremely dry pale ale brings briskly hop-embittered citric fruiting to dewy herbal dankness. Zesty grapefruit and orange rind sharpness infiltrates green tea musk at midst, gaining astringent acidity along the way. Serve to hop-headed English IPA lovers.