On tap at Ambulance, ‘Tart’ sour ale valiantly knocks off baked blueberry muffin as cake-battered vanilla frosting and powder-sugared dusting coat sweet ‘n sour blueberry adjunct countered by mild limey acidity. A blueberry cobbler substitute. One of the highest rated fruited sours in the country.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, less creamy smoothie sour maintains fresh-squeezed lemonade tartness sweetened by slick blueberry sugaring and salty Pez-like candied tartness. Refreshing summertime fodder for soft drink quenchers.
Sassy fruit-pied Smoothie affixes creamy milk-sugared vanilla to pureed black cherry tartness and cocktailed blackberry pomegranate mule. Over time, sharp concentrated orange juicing embitters and subdues cherry blackberry pie theme as mild raspberry tartness and sweet banana swerve arrive.
On tap at Growler & Gill, Brunch-styled sour IPA variant lets puckering lemon-limed white peach tartness gain lightly salted hard cider acidity as tertiary apricot, white grapefruit and mango illusions waver. Candied peach finish retains sharp Citra hop sunniness.
On tap at Growler & Gill, Brunch-styled Citra-hopped sour IPA with tart raspberry and bitter blueberry adjuncts gains briny lemon-limed acidity (and mild ammonia wisp). Below mixed berry surface, distant pink lemonade sweetness contrasts faraway grapefruit, pomegranate and guava souring.
On tap at Growler & Gill, sweetly creamed Brazil Plainifolia vanilla seeps inside mango orange creamsicle licks, peaches and cream riffs, mild guava-papaya-passionfruit snips and ripe nectarine-tangerine blip (as well as mild bitter pining) for truly tropical intensity. At milk-sugared finish, waxy fruit cocktail tanginess scurries thru vanilla milkshake richness of impressive math-celebrative hazy golden milkshake IPA.
On tap at Ambulance, sunshiny Citra-Mosaic-hopped IPA goes for Orange Crush soda audience as lightly vanilla creamed blood orange and mandarin orange adjuncts (plus tertiary pineapple, grapefruit and tangerine tanginess) bring juicy fruited vibrancy to citric-candied finish of ‘crushable’ soft drink (with well-hidden 8.2% ABV).
On tap at Pompton Craft House, briskly clean New Zealand-hopped IPA lets tangy peachy pineapple-grapefruit-guava conflux, lemony orange peel zesting and floral-daubed pine needling reach mild creamy oats-flaked wheat base. Intense Nectaron hopped tropical fruiting dazzles the tongue.
On tap at Growler & Gill, sturdily staid Midwestern IPA shoots for late ’90s stylizing as dry lemony grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and tingly peach sweetness stay moderate against resinous pine stead over grainy pale malts.
On tap at Ambulance, zestful New England-styled IPA lets yogurt-milked mandarin orange and tangerine tang slide into sourly salted guava-kiwi-papaya tropicalia and advertised ‘strawberry candied’ tartness above heavily oated wheat creaming. On the sly, cucumber-watered navel orange, white/yellow grapefruit and pineapple illusions seep thru.
On tap at Ambulance, bold Citra/Motueka/Galaxy hopped NEIPA (with hidden 10.3% ABV) lets dry grapefruit peeled orange rind bittering pick up lemon meringue tartness, tangy mango salting and latent papaya sweetness over creamy oated wheat base.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, tropical double dry-hopped NEIPA blends grapefruit-peeled Strata-hopped cannabis dankness with lemony Idaho 7-hopped herbal musk, gaining dry pine needling before picking up mild dill-pickled mango, guava and papaya salting.
