On tap at Ambulance, curious mixed culture saison combines brown sour ale and golden sour ale for a tannic Flemish Red hybrid. Bubbly champagned-licked lemon liming gains fizzy white wining, oaken cherry tartness and dry peppercorn spicing over barnyard-dried herbage. Vinous lactobacillus yeast provides dry wined acidity for soured wild ale.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, unsweetened cocoa nibs and carob-powdered nuttiness consume medium-bodied black lager. At the midst, dry black patent malt bittering brings day-old coffee remnant as mild Noble hop char singes leathery dried fruited swipe.
Vibrant pink and yellow grapefruit zesting invites tart mandarin orange zing and delicately resinous wood dankness above sugared pale malts, leaving lemony pineapple and peach daubs upon its upfront orange-candied grapefruit juicing.
Vibrant moderation brings zesty grapefruit sunshine, polite orange rind bittering, salty pineapple tang and spicy floral herbage to dank pine resin for demure IPA.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dry “tutti frutti jelly belly IPA” retains piquant citric-oiled perfuming and limey coconut-watered tropicalia, leaving trace amounts of melon, papaya, pineapple and guava tartness alongside mild pine resin at the whiskey-nipped pale malt spine.
On tap at Growler & Gill, crisply brusque German-styled pilsner gathers husked wheat musk, earthen Noble-hopped herbage and spritzy lemon pit souring. In the distance, ‘floral-honeyed’ raw molasses bittering brings pasty undercoating.
On tap at Ambulance, rustic saison blended with barrel-aged golden sour ale retains lactic Belgian yeast esters for tart blackberry adjunct. Sharp lemon-limed pucker rubs against zesty grapefruit juicing and vinous white wine wisps over hay-like barnyard acridity, relegating sour blackberry simmer.
On tap at Growler & Gill, embracingly fulsome hybridized breakfast stout succeeds at knocking off syrupy maple-laced pecan pancake. Sweet milk chocolate fudging gains dark-roast coffee bittering to contrast molasses-sapped pecan glaze and subsidiary spiced toffee, creamed vanilla and cinnamon illusions. Decadent!
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, ‘plush’ amber-hazed Imperial NEIPA lets briskly carbolic lemon zesting prickle floral-perfumed candied pineapple, yellow grapefruit, tangy orange, salted mango and sweet peach tones alongside less resilient dank pine resin and wavered onion-chived grassiness.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, leathery Flemish Red-inspired sour ale brings prickly raspberry-blackberry tartness and oaken cherry pucker to acidulated Vienna malting. Subsidiary cranberry, crabapple and gooseberry illusions add backend depth.
On tap at Centre Street Public House, centrist IPA celebrates ‘pre-haze craze’ with East-meets-West Coast vibe. Juicy East Coast tropical hop thrust brings vibrant grapefruit, papaya, guava and salted mango tanginess to the fore alongside Westerly orange-peeled lemon rind bittering and dry pine tones.
On tap at Beef Trust, murkily browned amber-hazed Imperial IPA wavers flavor-wise. Juicy orange tang diminished by herbal lemon-candied tartness, wayward tangerine-pineapple-melon-gooseberry rasp, relegated earthen rye grist and sour yogurt respite. Not bad, but indefinite. 