Sessionable summertime moderation enraptures with sunshiny yellow grapefruit bittering, spritzy orange peel sweetness, spry lemon zesting, tangy peach-pineapple-tangerine conflux and wispy coconut snips. A polite, easygoing, citric-hopped IPA.
AQUATIC TAWAKI NEW ZEALAND PALE ALE
Modest New Zealand-hopped (Nelson, Rakau, Motueka, Wai-ti) pale ale lets lightly salted guava-gooseberry tartness flow softly into lemony grapefruit sunshine and delicate pine tones above mild flaked oats.
BARNSTABLE BOCK THIS WAY
Luxurious faux-rum fruited maibock tantalizes senses further with brisk floral spicing and creamy vanilla-daubed oats. Fruit salad-like tangerine, red grape, red cherry, mandarin orange, pineapple and peach tanginess plus lemony grapefruit sugaring spread across dewy midst as distant herbal hop musk stays beneath fruitful surface.
MONTAUK SUMMER ALE
Spunky yellow fruited sunshine and zesty lemon spritz gain phenol hop spicing over white bread spine for decent summertime lawnmowing fodder.
SOUTHERN TIER RASPBERRY SHINE
Easygoing summertime softie. Bittersweet raspberry tartness penetrates hard-candied center as wispy floral perfuming and modest blueberry-boysenberry snips embrace blanched raspberry surface. Below its thinning out candy-coated berry mesh, light hop astringency and honeyed wheat sweetness gather.
TOPPLING GOLIATH CARAMEL APPLE FANDANGO
On tap at Ambulance, nifty kettle-soured ale captures caramel apple essence while bringing salted lime pucker to the fore. Sprinkled brown sugar spicing contrasts cidery green apple tartness at the sweet butterscotch finish.
EDMUND’S OAST SOUR MANGO ORANGE PASSIONFRUIT
On tap at Taphouse 15, highly vinous lactose-free fruited sour ale blends sweetly sour mango pucker with bitter orange and tart passionfruit above leathery acidulated malting. Only true sour heads will delight.
ABOMINATION ENDLESS DEPTHS FRUITED GOSE: PRICKLY PEAR, CALAMANSI, MANGO
On tap at Taphouse 15, sharply fruited gose unites kiwi-like prickly pear tartness, briny mango souring and limey calamansi spree as mildly acidic green grape esters enter the slightly bitter limestone finish.
SKYGAZER WATERCOLORS REPLAY BERLINER WEISSE PASSIONFRUIT, MANGO, TANGERINE, PEACH
On tap at Taphouse 15, resplendent tropical blitzkrieg drapes light milk sugared vanilla creaming atop punch bowl fruiting. Zesty passionfruit, salty mango, tangy tangerine, sweet peach, tart apricot and juicy pineapple pick up oaken white wine souring above starchy acidulated malts.
SEA DOG SUNFISH WHEAT
On tap at Sea Dog Brewpub – South Yarmouth, tangy peach sweetness encounters sunny yellow and pink grapefruit zesting before settling into powdered Orange Tang midst. Lacquered peach-grapefruit continuance picks up brisk lemon zesting and slight mango twist.
AQUATIC DOWNWELLING MANGO TANGERINE BERLINER WEISSE
Offbeat fruited Berliner Weisse with mildly acidic black peppered mango and tangerine pureed tartness skewering stylish cat-pissed brettanomyces yeast funk with puckered lemon liming and mild guava souring.
VON TRAPP STOWE-STYLE SMOKED HELLES
On tap at Pompton Craft House, worthy Bamberg-styled pale lager with smoked beechwood borders on being a distinct rauchbier – just a tad too light-bodied, arid and less flavorful than regal Aecht brews from Germany. If there’s one beer style Americans, as of 2024, have not perfected, it’s the meat cured rauchbier – most come out soapy, weak, compromised. However, Von Trapp, in collab with Austin-based Live Oak, have crafted a fairly resilient smoked beer. The beechwood smoke brings out subtle salami-pastrami salting in a sweet lager malt setting with mild Noble hop spicing fading into hickory-seared backdrop.