Luxurious faux-rum fruited maibock tantalizes senses further with brisk floral spicing and creamy vanilla-daubed oats. Fruit salad-like tangerine, red grape, red cherry, mandarin orange, pineapple and peach tanginess plus lemony grapefruit sugaring spread across dewy midst as distant herbal hop musk stays beneath fruitful surface.
Soothingly easygoing maibock with subdued lemon-candied orange, tangerine and cherry tang plus mild herbal spicing reaching polite caramelized pale malt bottom.
Easygoing fruitful maibock splashes lightly floral-spiced citrus, berry and cherry tang against mildly soured lemon licks above dry pasty malt base.
On tap at Capitol Craft – East Hanover, mild floral-spiced citrus and berry fruiting pick up wispy herbal perfuming over dewy pilsner malt sweetness. Understated, but not unassuming, springtime flavor profile.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, mossy earthen dewiness and horse-blanketed barnyard rusticity pervade sour lemon rot musk contrasting spritzy champagne-splashed stone fruiting. Sourly sweet citric midst gains mild herbal licks for rangy springtime sufficer.
On tap at Ambulance, unusually designed maibock spreads dewily grain toasted kiln malting across spicily caramelized dried fruiting and mild molasses tea sweetness. It’s missing stylishly bright maibock fruiting perhaps, but ancillary chestnut, date, and fig scurry proves worthy.
Dreary Texas-based spring bock barely betters mediocre Shiner Bock. Raw-honeyed sourdough mustiness and muffled fructose syruping mingle uncomfortably over moldy amber grains.
On tap at Growler & Gill, durable maibock drapes honeyed marzipan atop mild grassy hop bittering and fig-dried wisps, picking up wispy lemony banana bubblegum sweetness at the caramel-spiced finish.
On tap at The Oath, locally grained maibock lets dry spelt wheat acridity overtake mild fruitiness of smooth mineral watered moderation. Easygoing summertime fodder for golden lager lightweights.
On tap at The Oath, well-rounded maibock brings sweet ‘n sour fruiting to mild floral herbage, grassy hop astringency and sugared pale malting. Lightly corn-syruped peach, pineapple, orange and tangerine tang lingers softly above dry white-peppered parsley leafing, fresh oregano flowering and oaken vanilla whim.
On tap at Ambulance, refreshingly clean tawny-hued moderation allows sourdough-honeyed Munich malts and sedate floral-spiced Noble hops to anchor brisk citrus intrigue. Saison-like yellow grapefruit-peeled orange souring contrasts sugary marmalade sweetness. Buttery Chardonnay, oaken vanilla, yellow grape and white pepper undertones flutter by.
Easygoing yellow-fruited light body gathers sweet honey-spiced Vienna malts and delicate Bohemian hop prickle in a soft setting. Wispy lemony grapefruit tartness remains understated.