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.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, outstanding adjunct blonde ale allows toasted almond and coconut to sway lightly creamed milk-sugared vanilla sweetness as fizzy lemon pizzazz brightens pleasantly soft-toned moderation. Distant honeyed granola, spice cake and lemon coconut almond cake illusions flutter.
Ultra-dry limey curuba brining gains yuzu-like lemon pith bittering plus acidic cat urine-stained ammonia solvency. Spritzy lemon lime souring picks up latent white peach, passionfruit, crabapple and pomegranate tartness. Sour heads prevail.
Soft-tongued ‘chocolate caramels’ confection needs richer creaminess and less phenolic hop astringency as lactose-aided bittersweet chocolate fudging, subtle vanilla sugaring and wispy buttercream frosting never broaden the semi-sweet base.
Understated cherry, orange and pineapple convergence retains tartly dry edge for fruited kettle sour. Vinous green grape esters add light acidity to oaken cherry, desiccated orange and briny pineapple residue. A tad flattish.
Hazelnut-glazed maple pecan sweetness and mild oats sugaring contrast nutty hop char of confectionery dark chocolate-spiced stout. Tertiary bourbon vanilla, anise and toffee illusions flutter.
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, fine hybridized witbier reveals black-peppered rosebud flowering for sweet coriander-spiced orange peel zesting and mildly creamed white wheat malting. Floral citrus spicing gains herbal resonance over time.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, relaxing double dry-hopped Imperial IPA (with sinister 9.5% ABV) caresses tangy grapefruit, orange, mango, papaya and tangerine juiciness with lightly creamed oats-flaked pale malts. Mild lime blossom adjunct adds teensy souring to the zesty citrus fray.
