On tap at Seven Lakes Station, engagingly brisk New Zealand-hopped Imperial IPA retains sunshiny tropical fruit paradise as lively lemon zesting drifts into spritzy yellow grapefruit bittering and sweet orange peel tang as well as pineapple, mango, guava and kiwi serenity. Slight juniper-spiked piney bitterness stays setback contrasting sugary pale malting.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, smoothly dry grapefruit-forward Imperial IPA gains mild orange rind bittering, tidy pineapple-tangerine tang and latent floral herbage for musky pine permanence.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, tropical 9.5% ABV NEIPA crowds pulsating floral fruited hop bittering with resinous piney oiling contrasting mild oated creaminess. Lemony guava-passionfruit souring sidles orange-peeled grapefruit-pineapple-mango tanginess and peachy tangerine sweetness plus glassy vodka whim. Quite exquisite.
On tap at Taphouse 15, creamy dark chocolate bittering and black coffee remnant drape wood-burnt hop char as ashen nuttiness ensues over polite Blackstrap molasses-tinged flaked oats base.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, ‘easy drinking’ generically named IPA retains dry nature as floral perfumed spicing tags lemony grapefruit tang. Peppery hop herbage sails beneath the tropical fruiting alongside desiccated pale malts.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, briskly succulent cumulous-headed golden body enraptures tongue with lemony yellow grapefruit zesting, peppery orange peel tang and salted mango twist. Grassy herbal pining niftily underpins sunny tropical resonance of rewarding ’22 one-off (?).
On tap at Growler & Gill, tangy grapefruit, orange and tangerine juicing receives lemon-candied glaze to usurp grassy hop astringency contrasting sugary crystal malts of soft-tongued, straw-hazed, moderate-medium body. In the can, ‘Plush’ floral-spiced citrus domain given dank herbal-tinged wood tones. Lightly embittered lemon-seeded grapefruit perk and orange-peeled pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia combine for near perfection.
On tap at Growler & Gill, lovely easygoing moderation with muted grapefruit-peeled orange, peach, pineapple, mango and tangerine tanginess providing just enough sunshine for spruce-tipped pine resin and oily cannabis herbage above delicate pale malt sugaring.
