Thin dry-hopped IPA allows brisk lemon peel adjunct and mild lime tang to create pleasant, but insubstantial, up-front flavor profile. Mild floral pining and grassy earthen hops slink below delicately fizzy lemon-limed fluff. Easy drinking, yes, but nearly vapid at the finish.
On tap at Grafton Street – Cambridge, soft-toned beauty lets floral perfumed fruiting shine above mildly creamed pale malting. Tangy orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, peach, mango and nectarine juiciness picks up resinous piney hop bittering as well as mild gin-like juniper snip.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, mild milk-sugared lactose seeps into pronounced IPA fruiting, light grassy hop bittering, dank hemp oiling and ‘pillowy’ oats base with nary a trace. Crisply clean Mosaic hop tropicalia offers floral-spiced grapefruit, orange, tangerine, peach and mango tang.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, resilient golden-beiged medium body drapes juicy orange and grapefruit tang above mild floral-daubed pine hop bittering. Clean-watered crisping really brings out the expressive citrus splendor.
On tap at Russell House Tavern, delectable tropical-fruited India Pale Ale stays sessionable as orange-peeled mango, papaya, guava and grapefruit juicing gains sweet-spiced alacrity. Rummy banana daiquiri, red cherry and cantaloupe illusions flutter.
Rich cookie dough-spiced caramel malting contrasts dry-hopped pink and yellow grapefruit tang, gaining sharp woody bitterness along the way. Tangy orange, pineapple, grapefruit and mango tropicalia brightens the hop-headed path.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry medium-bodied India Pale Ale seeps mild citrus spicing and distant herbal hop grouting into bready pale malt backbone. Light Citra hop bitterness affects shifty orange-tangerine tang.
On tap at Grumpy Monk, mildly creamed caramel malting offers delicate nitro feel to soft-toned orange, peach and tangerine fruiting as well as sneaky lemon-seeded black currant bittering. Zesty citrus-spiced finish gains lingered piney hop astringency.
Rich cookie dough malt sweetness invades stylish orange-peeled grapefruit tang, mild piney hop bittering and muskily lingered alcohol astringency. Lemony tangerine, pineapple and peach illusions as well as dainty brown pear and melon snips add further resilience to colorful Mosaic hop-bound medium body.
Going just a tad beyond IPA styling, sessionable pale body relies on green tea-like herbal lemon quality and lighter oats base instead of strictly plied piney citric bittering and richer pale malting. Mild grassy floral undertones and wispy orange-tangerine tang complete the score.
On tap at Ambulance, ‘glistening’ citrus-juiced moderate body utilizes Slovenia’s Styrian Wolf hop variety to provide floral-daubed fruit scape for crisp oats-flaked rye malting. Mild lavender snip calmly affects tangy grapefruit, orange and pineapple ripeness.
Harmoniously designed medium-bodied West Coast India Pale Ale brings sharp grapefruit-peeled orange, tangerine, pineapple and peach tanginess to resinous piney hop bittering, floral-bound herbal respite and mild alcohol astringency.
