Refreshingly familiar middle-of-the-road pale ale brings relaxing orange-peeled yellow grapefruit bittering to juicy cantaloupe-honeydew-nectarine-mango tang and grassy floral-spiced Cascade-Mosiac hops. Easygoing tropical fruiting sits atop muted caramel malt base and mildly herbal white peppering.
RODENBACH CARACTERE ROUGE
On tap at End Of Elm, rustic oak-dried sour ale (posing as a lactobacillus-affected Flanders red) tosses macerated cranberry, raspberry and cherry skins at vinous lemon-limed green grape pungency above musty earthen barnyard acridity. Oaken vanilla phenols seep into piquant red-fruited wining, sharp cider subsidy and balsamic vinegaring. Tertiary lingonberry, boysenberry and red currant illusions fortify sharply sour-candied cherry, raspberry and cranberry adjuncts at berry-wined finish.
BAYERISCHE BAHNHOF LEIPZIGER LAVANDULA JUNIPERUS GOSE
On tap at Ambulance, adventurously hybridized gose brings botanical juniper-spiced lavender, angelica-rooted orange flowering and light pimiento peppering to stylish coriander salting. Subsidiary orange-candied tartness, lemon-limed gooseberry pucker and lilting rosé wining stay below the busy surface near the sour wheat base.
NESHAMINY CREEK TRAUGER PILSNER
On tap at Ambulance, well-defined German pilsner offers raw-grained oats, maize and wheat desiccation to assertive grassy hop astringency and soured herbal lemon spritz above saltine cracker-like malts. But skunked yeast musk and barnyard hay-straw acridity may be off-putting to those unfamiliar with dry Bohemian-styled pils.
CARTON BREWING DOES IT AGAIN WITH CHURRO FLAVORED ELIXIR AND WEEDY BLUNT KNOCKOFF
CARTON CAFE Y CHURRO
On tap at Ambulance, brewers’ creamy milk-sugared Regular Coffee (an extremely popular and iconic Jersey-based cream ale) receives fried dough pastry treatment as vanilla-sweetened cinnamon spicing pervades light-roast coffee bittering. Subsidiary espresso, cappuccino, coconut milk, caramel latte and mochaccino hints favorably affect lusty cinnamon vanilla pancaking. Perfect dessert treat in lieu of a sugar-glazed doughnut.
CARTON GRAPE SWISHER
On tap at Plank Pizza, uniquely hybridized rauchbier takes cannabis-derived blunt cigar flavoring to a new level. Dark-roasted mocha malting drapes dry Concord grape adjunct, tobacco-roasted peat smokiness and hash-oiled lupulin musk. Oak-smoked wheat influence, dank earthen soiling and charred walnut sear add depth.
ALESMITH SPEEDWAY STOUT – HAWAIIAN
On tap at Ambulance, lovely Ku’a coffee-injected Imperial Stout arguably betters prestigiously original Speedway version with its newfangled coconut-toasted dark roast coffee richness and vanilla-creamed milk chocolate center. Cream n’ sugared coffee sweetness gains strength from fudged brownie subsidy, latent bourbon-burgundy luster and distant black cherry, blackberry and purple grape traces. A delightful sweet-toothed dessert treat.
ALESMITH SPEEDWAY STOUT – VIETNAMESE
On tap at Ambulance, sumptuously creamed Vietnamese coffee-infused version of popular Cali stout maintains nutty chocolate affluence alongside lightly sugared java penetration. Stimulating coffee roast and syrupy chocolate thickness enrich robust mocha finish. Mild espresso, vanilla, hazelnut and cocoa illusions stay distant.
DEMENTED SLOTH
DEMENTED GREED
On tap at Plank Pizza, easygoing dark ale brings soft-watered dark chocolate/ black patent malting to char-coaled black cherry and purple grape tartness. Subsidiary port, cocoa and raw molasses illusions fill out soft-watered Baltic porter-leaning oatmeal stout.
PIZZA BOY SUNNY SIDE UP
On tap at Ambulance, medium-roast coffee tones receive cream and sugar sweetness above oats-flaked cocoa beaning. At midst, chocolate and vanilla influence gains authority. Light bourbon lilt further sweetens medium-full-bodied stout.