On tap at Ambulance, hazy IPA-styled pale ale invites candied orange, tart pineapple, floral lychee and salted mango fruiting to light pine lacquering over oated wheat creaming.
TWO GOATS GOLDEN CRUSH NEW ENGLAND PALE ALE
Busy lactose-free turbid-bronzed New England styled pale ale combines sharp citrus-spiced hop bite with dank pine resin above dry oats. Orange-peeled pink grapefruit tang contrasts orange rind-embittered yellow grapefruit bittering. Not as creamy or succulently sweet ‘n soured as trending NEIPA’s since it’s a milder pale ale.
TWO GOATS GOATMASTER KOLSCH
Crisply clean kolsch stays dry as zesty lemony orange spritz picks up raw grained barnyard acridity and celery watered snip (and mild dried cherry spec) over its white breaded base.
FIFTH HAMMER SPARKLE MAGNET HEFEWEIZEN
On tap at Ambulance and a tad richer than most hefeweizens, its creamier soudough sugaring gets upped while the lemony banana-clove influence stays in the herbal midst.
FIDDLEHEAD WHITE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, 2023 updated Aetherium witbier brings stylish orange-peeled coriander sweetness to pleasant herbal array of minty lemongrass, sage and perhaps rosemary. Spritzy navel orange fizz tickles the nose.
FOREST & MAIN SOLAIRE SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, brettanomyces-bound foraged yeast culture invites earthen truffle and malted spelt dryness to mildly acidic lemon liming, tannic white wine esters, bergamot cologne musk and mild green apple bittering given salty iodine alkalinity.
NOTCH SALEM LAGER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, highly rated year-round Bavarian helles lager disappoints. Corny rice starching, sour lemon rotted spritz and hay-like barnyard acridity creep above buckwheat-pasted buttered biscuit base in tepid manner – despite its acclaim elsewhere.
SCHILLING GLIMMEN SMOKED HELLES
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 smokiness recedes too fast, leaving some aridity along the pilsner malted bottom. Easygoing lightweight fave.
ALVARIUM CRUNCHY ROLL RICE LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, crushable Japanese rice lager brings ‘delicate cracker maltiness and flaked brown rice’ to lemongrass-spruced Sorachi Ace hops. Limey white grape esters provide mild souring.
FOREIGN OBJECTS NANSENSU JAPANESE RICE LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, modest pale yellowed Japanese lager retains rice-wined Sake earthiness and wispy lemon-soured ginger spicing over salted cracker base.
KEUKA 607 LAGER
Easygoing pale lager merges spritzy dried orange musk and bittersweet apple skin tannins with dank floral-tinged earthen hop herbage over neutralized sweet breaded crystal-Vienna malting.
JACK’S ABBY RED TAPE AMBER LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, understated Bavarian dark lager scours cereal grained barley roast with lightly spiced plum-prune conflux and mild leafy hop astringency for soft-toned dunkel-styled moderation.
