On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, underwhelming Czech dark lager utilizes rhubarb-like buckwheat to sop up dark cocoa dryness and dark-roast hops, gaining slight almond, chestnut and date dollops above soggy bread-crusted pumpernickel rye base.
Delicate straw clear hefe stays thin as spritzy lemon licks prickle sweet banana-clove seduction over soft sourdough wheat base, picking up mild herbage, green grape tannins and phenol hop blurb.
On tap at The Local Taphouse of Nyack. Stylishly richer ‘Czech amber lager’ tosses raw-honeyed cracked barley at lightly cherrywood-smoked pumpernickel, rye and wattleseed midst as leafy hop astringency penetrates dried cocoa bottom.
On tap at Taphouse 15, musty grained straw golden pilsner (an unfiltered lager a.k.a. kellerbier) brings mild wildflower-honeyed creaming to sweet corn, sour lemon, hay-dried astringency and mildly peppered Noble hop herbage with fine results.
On tap at Taphouse 15, unique Bavarian-styled golden helles lager utilizes Lukr Side Pour faucet to soften the foamily frothed creaminess heading the slightly cherrywood-mesquite smoked maize dryness and phenol hop spicing. But its desolate campfire smokiness recedes too fast, leaving some aridity along the pilsner malted bottom. On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar ’25, cherrywood-smoked helles lager gained mesquite wood tones for weedy peat mossing and reedy cured meating. Easygoing lightweight fare despite smoky tangibles.
On tap at Taphouse 15, neo-traditional yellow cleared German pilsner sidles dry lemony herbage with peppery hop musk and sweet floral wisps above biscuity pilsner malts.
On tap at Taphouse 15, lightly creamed Vienna lager with murky caramelized cereal graining, herbal lemon splotch and grassy hop astringency nullifying advertised honeyed biscuit and toasted almond illusions.
On tap at Taphouse 15, soft-toned Bavarian lager drips sweet dewy peat upon maize-dried astringency, light floral spicing and warm French breading.
On tap at Taphouse 15, traditional Czech-styled dark lager brings cocoa powdered Bakers chocolate dryness to pumpernickel-crusted cracked pepper breading.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dewy earthen mossing saturates caramel-burnt maple molasses, musty mildewed fungi and light (semi-harsh) hop-charred nuttiness of Czech-styled black lager not far removed from Bohemian schwarzbier.
On tap at Taphouse 15, musky Noble-hopped lemon herbage and straw-dried mineral graining given abrupt white-green peppering above doughy bread crusting.
On tap at Taphouse 15, brisk orange-peeled clove and coriander spicing picks up persistent lemongrass gingering and herbal fennel minting above doughy unmalted wheat starching for slightly offbeat Belgian wit.
