DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Taking up a cozy backspace at Lilly’s Gourmet inside a pinkish mauve stucco side cafe in the heart of Doylestown, GERONIMO BREWING matches stylishly familiar proprietary beers to upscale food. The small wood floored and furnished pub features nine billiard-balled draught handles at the L-shaped eight-seat bar and a back kitchen creating fine cuisine. Exposed pipes line the low ceiling and one TV is situated near tonight’s tap list.

The right side nano brew tanks were next to the two-seat round table my wife and I grabbed on a brisk Saturday eve, January ’25. I quaffed all five available beers alongside quiche, chicken wings and cheesesteak eggrolls.

Dry German-styled pilsner, Ut Prosim, loaded creamy rye flouring upon dewy peat earthiness and black-peppered whims atop tidy pilsner malts.

Dry unfiltered pilsner-styled lager, MPM Kellerbier, saddled mild mandarin orange tartness with peppery herbage and earthen rusticity.

Easygoing Columbus-Chinook-hopped pale ale, CB5, let dry wood resin and barnyard hay inside its Maris Otter-malted caramelized rye stead, picking up latent grapefruit, orange rind and lemon dollops as well as apple-pear snips.

Sunny lemony grapefruit tanginess lightly embittered Citra-Mosiac-hopped NEIPA, Chuicy Chowie Wowie, leaving dry herbal-tinged pine tones on the pale malt spine.

May fave was rummy red-orange-yellow fruited Mayday Maibock, a toffee-spiced Vienna malted treasure with braided Easter bread buttering.