Easygoing beige yellow-cleared tropical fruit dry body places juicy pineapple, green mango and passionfruit tartness at the fore alongside salted lemony grapefruit zesting and distant kiwi-guava snips. But its light hop pining and passive white bread base are silenced.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dry yellow grapefruit and orange rind bittering consumes piney interior, pumpernickel breaded rye malting and mild dark-roast hop pungency of grainier IPA.
On tap at Ambulance, soft ‘hop-forward’ double dry-hopped IPA retains sour lemon herbage and salty yellow grapefruit bittering contrasted by lemon verbena sweetness, picking up lemongrass, herbal tea and floral illusions.
On tap at Growlers To Go – Kitty Hawk, approachable moderate-bodied IPA gathers sunny orange peeled grapefruit tang, lemony herbage and resinous pine for dry pale malting. Stylishly pleasurable but unassuming.
Smoothly sharp pine-toned citrus spree gathers bitter lemon-limed yellow grapefruit and orange rind dryness to contrast juicy pineapple, mango and guava tanginess. Dank pine hop musk keeps persistent bitterness rallying.
On tap at Triton – Long Beach Island, dry IPA brings slightly pungent West Coast-styled piney grapefruit and orange rind bittering to peachy Aussie-hopped guava, passionfruit and papaya tartness over buttery pale malting.
Dry West Coast-styled IPA lets sunshiny Citra-Mosaic-hopped grapefruit-peeled orange tang sidle moderate Simcoe-hopped piney herbage, retaining slight grassy astringency for dry pale-malted medium body. Brisk semi-sharp citrus bittering gains ancillary pineapple, mango and guava tropicalia.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, lemony Zamba/ Meridian hop blend heightened by ultra-dry wood tones saturating abrupt yellow grapefruit rind bittering and floral cologne musk. Not unlike some early ’90s citrus-pined West Coast IPA’s.
On tap at Growler & Gill, everchanging tropical fruit punch recipe (’23 version) submits peachy pineapple and mango tanginess to lemony yellow grapefruit bittering, salty lime tartness, slightly sour green grape/guava/lychee combo and subtle white peppered herbage above mildly honeyed oats-flaked Maris Otter malting that contrasts lacquered pine drift.
On tap at Taphouse 15, brightly tropical Strata hops allow lightly salted mango-pineapple zesting and frisky orange peel tanginess to enter the slightly sharp fruited fray as ‘sweet basil’ hides beneath pale malt dryness.
On tap at Taphouse 15, hazy golden West Coast-styled IPA utilizes dryly citric pine toned Simcoe hops to reach lightly creamed New England-styled IPA oated wheat base. Mild wood-parched yellow grapefruit and orange rind bittering picks up lightly salted herbal misting.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, piney citric double dry-hopped IPA bounces Citra/Mosaic hop zesting against piney Simcoe hop herbage and mild floral daubs. Brisk orange-peeled yellow grapefruit rind bittering gains sweet mango, tangy pineapple and distant cantaloupe-melon conflux for trusty tropical medium body.
