Humble golden pale moderation brings spiced tropical fruiting to pasty pale malt sweetness, distant pine tones and wispy herbage. Upfront, zestful grapefruit-orange-peach-pineapple assurance sidles sour passionfruit adjunct anchored by red ale-like midnight wheat cereal graining.
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CYPRESS BRU’D WITH AMARILLO PALE ALE
Straight-ahead and mildly tempered. Polite citrus spicing overlays gentle wood-dried grassy hop astringency, leaving wispy yellow grapefruit, orange and pineapple zesting.
BRIX CITY BORN UNDER PUNCHES INDIA PALE ALE
Billowy white-headed yellow-hazed moderation retains soft-tongued salted fruiting as peachy pineapple-grapefruit-orange tanginess receives zesty lemon briskness and herbal-tinged grassy hop astringency in mannered IPA setting.
KANE WHITEHALL IPA
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, bright lemony yellow grapefruit entry gains tangy mandarin orange, peach, nectarine and tangerine respite above musty pilsner-like oated wheat base. Delicate pine resin underscores sunny tropical fruited finish.
FINBACK ROLLING IN CLOUDS INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, thickly hazed beige yellow dry body brings lightly embittered lemon-bruised yellow grapefruit zesting and candied pineapple-peach-mango zing to the fore. A piquant sour citrus edge cuts thru the spicy pale malt bottom, tucking away hints of pencil shavings.
TOPPLING GOLIATH ZEELANDER INDIA PALE ALE
Modest hazy yellowed light body brings bright lemon-peeled mandarin orange tingle to mild oats malting. Slightly salted Nelson Sauvin-hopped gooseberry and guava tartness as well as herbal marigold tinge tucked away below sedate citrus tang.
WOODSTOCK RIP ANIMATIC
On tap at Growler & Gill, understated NEIPA placates mild citrus tang with light vanilla creaming and oats flaked caramel malts. Salted yellow fruiting slowly picks up delicate passionfruit, juniper and gooseberry snips.
DEVIL’S CREEK JUST IPA
Tamped down red-orange fruiting combines with celery-watered rustic amber graining above glass-candied pale malt pasting. A milder, less bitter, more centrist IPA.
KCBC INDIANA BONES & THE KIBBLE OF DOOM IPA
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, floral-daubed blood orange tang conquers sour-candied lemon liming to its salty bleached wheat bottom.
GRIMM MAGNETIC TAPE
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.
SIERRA NEVADA DANKFUL IPA
Vague “generously hopped” medium body evenly spreads reluctant grapefruit-orange tang across mildly resinous pine-toned dankness. Pasty pale malt sugaring underlies underwhelming dry citrus hop oiling as candied peach, mango and tangerine snips drift off. Server to blue collar regulars.
NON SEQUITUR DIVE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, enigmatic waxy fruit-pasted West Coast IPA goes a tad off the beaten trail as gluey tongue coating corn syruping stubbornly upends dry citrus murk, mossy grain musk and dank hop resin.
