On tap at Growler & Gill, tropical fruited NEIPA flagship lacks creamy oated wheat base of richer stylistic brethren but still benefits from juicy Citra-Mosaic hop sunniness and dry Simcoe hop woodiness. Lemony grapefruit spritz and tangy mango-peach-pineapple zesting gain grassy astringency above crystal pale malting.
Fulsome hazy golden NEIPA retains zesty orange peeled yellow grapefruit tanginess, salted guava-gooseberry souring and slight white peach/tangerine tang as well as resinous piney bittering. Mild grassy astringency and tingled floral spicing add subtleties. Buttery oats creaming gains yogurt thickness at tropical fruited finish.
Jersey harvested hophead delight brings briskly bright tropical fruiting to dank pine lacquering over mildly creamed oated wheat base, gathering juniper-bitten herbal nips for its boozy finishing phenols. Bitter orange rind and yellow grapefruit pith juicing thrusts forward alongside the gooey hop resin of a piney-citric West Coast IPA. Not as yogurt-milked or lemony guava soured as most NEIPA’s – so call it a tidily embittered New England/Pacific Northwest hop-centric pairing.
Less dimensional than most NEIPA’s, lacking some of the creamy oats richness and most of the raspy yogurt-milked fruitiness stylistically implied. Mild grapefruit, tangerine, mango and guava tanginess stays subtle as honeyed crystal malts sweetness the backend.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, sunshiny tropical fruiting and rainbow salad spicing brighten dazzling hazy amber NEIPA. Zesty orange peeled pineapple, peach and grapefruit tanginess plus salty mango, guava and gooseberry souring ride above creamy oated wheat base. Minor dank pine tones circulate thru juicy fruit punch.
On tap at Taphouse 15, briskly clean Cryo hop oils provide smooth tropical fruiting for lightly creamed oated wheat foundation. Dank pine resin slowly seeps into candied pineapple, salted mango, tangy peach and zesty orange goodness.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, sunshiny yellow grapefruit-forward NEIPA picks up mild orange pith, peel and rind bittering plus salted guava-gooseberry-pineapple tartness and floral white peach alacrity above mildly creamed oats. Spritzy citrus fizziness depletes some pulpy nature.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, tropical fruited NEIPA favors ample citrus endurance over mild oated wheat creaming. Tangy orange zesting, peachy mango sweetness and limey pineapple bittering pick up delicate floral spicing to contrast dank pine resin.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, assertive double dry-hopped NEIPA (despite Imperial handle) offers milky yogurt souring to tangy pineapple, mandarin orange, guava and papaya tropicalia as well as crayon-waxed lemon liming above creamy oated wheat base. Mild pine resin seeps thru fruitily bittersweet buttery froth.
Soft-toned dry-hopped NEIPA eases lightly embittered orange pith, white grapefruit and salty pineapple tang plus delicate mango-peach-tangerine conflux above mild wheated oats. Too subtle and less creamy than most of its northeast style, but highly sessionable.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry soft-toned NEIPA lets buttered grapefruit-orange salting and tropical pineapple-papaya-mango tang serenade sedate wildflower and apple blossom honeyed oated wheat base. Dank piney hop bittering stays distant.
On tap at Taphouse 15, ‘aggressively dry-hopped’ New England IPA collab with new Morris Plains brewery, Autodidact, puts lemony orange peeled peach and pineapple tang across light vegetal herbage and atop buttery pale malts. Lacks stylish oats-creamed sour yogurt dimension.
