On guest tap at Last Minute Brewing, mild beechwood-smoked cured meat setting brings out distant salami, bacon and pastrami brining above powdered cocoa malting. In the can, creamy cocoa froth lathers peaty beechwood smoked cured meat spicing. A little too mild for rauchbier perfection – but getting close.
Superb off-dry Irish Red Ale (from Kilkenny) retains thickly creamed head as toasted amber graining enriches nutty cocoa powdering, dewy peat mossing and latent red-orange fruiting, picking up mild peppery hop pungency in robustly well-balanced fashion.
Tart raspberry spritz picks up vinous green grape esters, sedate cranberry-boysenberry conflux, mild green apple bittering and salted pineapple-guava whims. Lemony sour-candied raspberry pucker persists.
On tap at Ambulance, confectionery pastry-like peach pie knockoff utilizes lactic milk-sugared vanilla to sweeten its peachy lemon meringue tartness, toasted coconut whim and cinnamon gingerbread respite above crusty honeyed wheat.
Lemon-candied blood orange puree rides above coriander-salted white wheat base of fruited gose. Tart Pez candy powdering consumes ‘simple sour’ New York moderation.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, ‘simple’ mixed fermentation sour ale with mildly acidic brettanomyces yeast lets tart lemon souring and vinegary green grape esters merge atop acidulated white wheat base for easygoing white wine alternative.
On tap at Hoovers Tavern, kettle soured peach ale with lightly vinous white grape tannins desiccating musky oaken parch underscoring tart Mackinaw peachiness. Pez-like Sweet-Tart candied backdrop adds depth.
Classic West Coast-styled IPA (Columbus/ Simcoe/ Citra hops) lets lingered grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and tangy pineapple whims settle across dry piney hop resin and above pale malt sugaring. Sharp citrus bittering never coarse or astringent.
Lemony yellow grapefruit bittering stays soft alongside milder pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia as well as latent peachy tangerine tang swirling above lightly creamed pilsner malting. Tidy perfumed juniper licks spark light vodka boozing cutting thru sunny citric-pined finish.
Polite yellow grapefruit entry gains mild lemon spritz for oncoming salted pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia as well as tart mandarin orange wisps lightly embittered by juniper berry.
On tap at Ambulance, tropical New England IPA coalesces candied pineapple tartness, yellow grapefruit bittering, strawberried guava souring and peachy tangerine tang with salty pine lacquer over mild oated wheat base.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, tropical candy fruiting indulges zesty double dry-hopped New England IPA (utilizing citric-bent Mosaic/Citra hops and woody Amarillo hops). Pillowy papaya, mango and starfruit frontage quickly gains delicate yellow grapefruit and orange rind bittering as well as slight pineapple tang and zesty lemon fizz. Mild pine lacquering contrasts crystal malting in delightful fruited frolic.
