On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, vodka-licked tropical fruiting receives juicy lupulin-powdered hop oiling, serene floral spicing and sweet gin boozing above mild wheated oats base. Peachy pineapple, mango, orange and papaya tang receives latent piney dankness, grassy astringency and fennel frolic.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, persuasive double dry-hopped (utilizing Strata hops as opposed to Citra-Mosaic version) mingles spritzy white grapefruit, orange and mango tang with light juniper bittering and sour guava-gooseberry snip, retaining creamy vanilla froth.
On tap at Growler & Gill, subtle dry-hopped lemony grapefruit bittering gains candied orange-pineapple tartness and resinous pine smidge alongside mild vodka whim as lightly creamed oats sugaring sweetens the backend of clear beige yellowed Imperial IPA.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, divergent hopped-up West Coast IPA (with unassuming 9.7% ABV) stays dry as dank pine resin seeps into dehydrated grapefruit-mango conflux, raw-honeyed orange blossom musk, dark floral mustiness and mild black peppering. More abstruse than complex.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, ‘recklessly hoppy recipe’ celebrates 10 year anniversary of fabulous Ruination. But its muskily citric Centennial-Citra hop blend and the original’s piney floral perfuming are lacking. Instead, its candied orange stead never overcomes the iodine-stiffened boozy ethers.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, 6th anniversary IPA floats bold 8.5% alcohol ethers thru clean cryo-hopped tropical fruit lacquering and mildly creamed vanilla froth. Lemony pineapple zesting, tannic green grape souring, limey bergamot orange tartness and fuzzy peach tang gain floral sweetness to contrast earthen pine whim.
Original 420 given bolder intensity. Sugary mango, peach and pineapple tanginess outdoes orange-peeled grapefruit zesting (and syrupy pear snip plus tangerine-clementine tease) as grassy-hopped astringency and resinous pine stabilize above contrasting honeyed wheat base.
On tap at Taphouse 15, despite mass acclaim, intensely bitter and brusquely dry Imperial IPA’s somewhat harsh aggression seems off-putting. Musky orange-oiled grapefruit pith bittering gains fungi musting and tannic blackcurrant phenols.
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.
Sturdily booze-doused 9.9% ABV DDH IIPA brightens orange-peeled mango, peach and pineapple tang with lemony yellow grapefruit sunshine as mild gooseberry-guava souring settles softly. Vodka-licked citrus continuance gains resinous piney hop lacquering and muted herbage over biscuity pilsner malt base.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, ‘crushably dank citrus-forward IPA’ collab stays stylistically straight-ahead as tangy yellow grapefruit, navel orange and pineapple zesting soaks up sticky pine hop resin.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, juicy citrus tang permeates sugary pale malt bottom of nifty Maryland/Virginia IPA collab. Mild lemony orange-peeled grapefruit bittering sits across peachy nectarine sweetness with dank cannabis-oiled hops just below the mix.
