Peppy pale lager brings slightly soured salty lemon spritz to light grassy hop musk and corn-sugared pale malt base for tidy moderation.
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BLACK HOG COLD PIZZA PILSNER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dry-hopped Italian-style pilsner places mild floral spicing beside light herbage tingled by sunny lemon spritz above salted cracker-like white wheat malting.
SCHILLING HANSE KELLER PILS
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.
MAGNIFY REFRESH PILSNER
On tap at Taphouse 15, crisply clean golden cleared dry pils stays creamily soft as millet-grained cracked wheat stead houses alfalfa, grits and buckwheat nuttiness plus porridged maize to complement mild lemony peach spicing.
BRIX CITY CIAO BELLA PILSNER
On tap at Pompton Craft House, dry-hopped Italian-inspired pils stays soft and mild as delicately spiced lemony hop spot and floral spiced bouquet gather alongside daintily caramelized pale malting and crusty French breading.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN DOLCE AMOR PASTRY STOUT
Dry milk-sugared pastry stout lets floury cannoli-shelled cocoa powdering sink into fudgy toffee sweetness contrasting tarry coffee-stained dark chocolate bittering. Some phenol astringency sneaks into the mix but its latent cannoli-related Marsala wining helps sweeten the busy mocha finish.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN BOCK TO THE FUTURE DARK LAGER
Black patent malted dark chocolate bitterness seeps into contrastive toffee-spiced cola nuttiness and wispy glazed pecan sweetness over toasted molasses breading.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN PASION DE LA PENA FRUITED SOUR
On tap at The Taphouse – Wayne, mild fruited kettle sour ale sprays moderately acidic lemon-peeled lime zest and unripe strawberry mustiness all over tart passionfruit adjunct. In the can, Costa Rican-inspired kettle sour ups milk sugared vanilla sweetness against brisk passionfruit tartness, sour guava salting and pithy pineapple-papaya splash.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN BLONDE RAZZ
Tart raspberry frontage, spritzy lemon spree and wispy floral sweetness drift into phenol hop astringency above wavering white wheat base for simple fruited blonde ale.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN MAGENTA MIST GRAPE BLONDE ALE
On tap at The Taphouse – Wayne, flattish Concord grape musk barely makes spritzy imprint as white wine esters, pickled dill tang and musty yellow grapeskin earthiness waver.
CHECKERSPOT TOTALITY BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT
Bold stout aged in Sagamore rye whiskey barrels dumps dark chocolate syrup upon boozy sherry, port and burgundy wining plus lingered bourbon vanilla sweetness. Whiskeyed cherry bruise heightens finishing mocha bourbon resonance. Exquisite nightcap.
CHECKERSPOT ADMIRAL BUCK IMPERIAL BOCK
Beautiful bourbon-aged bock imparts true whiskeyed cognac warmth for caramelized barleywine sweetness contrasting dry rye flourish. Boozy Manhattan cocktail continuance picks up tertiary sherry, bruised cherry, glazed pecan and butterscotch candy illusions for impressive 9.8% ABV fireplace sipper.
