On tap at Pompton Craft House, Sweet-Tart candied tiki cocktail knockoff (with ghoulish pale green hue) allows limey pineapple, raspberry and tangerine souring to lead the way as perfumed green apple, crabapple and cranberry mustiness stays recessive above acidulated pale malting.
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SWELLS’A KAHUNA MATATA BARREL AGED SOUR ALE
Subtle rum barrel aging provides dissipating toasted sugaring to contrast tart pineapple-juiced oaken cherry and oaken vanilla adjuncts and vinous white-wined green grape esters. Leathery lactobacillus acidity escalates sour edge as dry bourbon wisps enjoin cidery pineapple-cherry finish.
SHIP BOTTOM BOMB POP SOUR ALE
Exacting popsicle-inspired sour ale plies lemonade sugaring to candied Sweet-Tart powdering. Spritzy lemon-limed raspberry souring hides wispy floral-perfumed piquancy. Classic frozen beverage flawlessly re-created.
WELDWERKS BAMM BAMM RUBBLE RUBBLE SOUR WHEAT ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, obtuse sour wheat ale re-creates Fruity Pebbles rice cereal as Sweet-Tart Jolly Rancher-candied tartness enjoins slightly soured milk-sugared vanilla marshmallow creaming. In the distance, salty strawberry soured pucker gains mild concentrated orange juicing.
NESHAMINY CREEK SUMMER DOLLARS SOUR ALE W/ BLOOD ORANGE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, zesty sea-salted blood orange entry gains lemon-dropped liming and hard cider bite as well as tart raspberry snips. But gnarly orange oil souring could be deemed off-putting.
RUSTY RAIL HARDCORE PIE PAL APPLE CINNAMON SOUR
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, knocking off a Granny Smith apple pie laced with cinnamon bark bittering, this sharp cider-finishing sour ale retains mild phenol alkalinity over acidulated malts.
DREAM STATE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF SOUR ALE
On tap at Draught Industries, mildly hazed pinkish amber Smoothie lacks creamily frothed turbidity of richer fruited sours. The dichotomy between its cotton-candied marshmallow sweetness and acidic lemon-juiced green grape esters leans closer to the sour side as oaken cherry, salted passionfruit, cranberry and guava illusions pucker its pink lemonade tartness.
ASLIN BOOGHINA FRUITED SOUR
On tap at Draught Industries, Sour Patch Kid-like kettle sour brings candied raspberry, lemon, lime and orange tartness to the fore as sugared pink grapefruit tang beckons, retaining mildly salted acidity.
MUCKRAKER FARMSTAND CUVEE WILD ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, spontaneously fermented amber reddish-glowed wild ale lets raspberry balsamic vinegaring spread across New Jeersey-harvested peach, blueberry and blackberry fruiting desiccated by leathery green grape esters. Totally sour French wine-tanked cuvee only appealing to the sourest heads.
CASCADE COSMOSAIC BARREL AGED SOUR BLONDE ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, salty lemon-juiced tequila frontage and limey white grape tartness lightly acidify effervescent straw-cleared barrel-aged sour blonde. Citric-pined Mosaic hop zesting stays brisk as soured guava-pineapple-mango-peach medley remains subtle sidling wispy blue agave sweetness over cardboardy pale malting.
JUGHANDLE SOUR WHEELS SCORPION BOWL
On tap at River Of Beer, engrossing fruit-tart Tiki cocktail plies salty vodka-licked tropicalia and light white rum influence to powder-candied cherry, lemon and tangerine pucker as well as passionfruit-pureed pineapple, guava and strawberry auxiliary scoured by bittersweet orange juice concentrate for amply fruited sour ale.
CONNECTICUT VALLEY PINEAPPLE SOUR
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, juicily eye-squinting pineapple tartness picks up salty lemon-limed souring and cucumber watered cleansing as sharp orange-concentrated grapefruit, tangelo and passionfruit illusions deepen pineapple tenacity.