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.
On tap at Ambulance, OK collab with Pittsburgh’s Dancing Gnome Beer. Lightly spiced lemon zesting surges as orange marmalade, candied pineapple and tart white grapefruit reach mild vanilla-creamed pale malt pasting.
Zestful 2022 redux brewed once a year to celebrate brewers’ anniversary is superb. Luxurious double dry-hopped NEIPA with sunny Mosaic-Citra-Vic Secret-hopped tropicalia allows juicy lemon-spiced orange peel tang and mildly embittered yellow grapefruit splash to pick up dank herbal resin as well as perfumed juniper bite above creamily oated wheat base. Versatile fruited profile gains ancillary salted mango, white peach, pineapple, mandarin orange and tangerine illusions.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, effervescently soft-toned NEIPA with resonant Mosaic/Citra-hopped yellow grapefruit, orange rind and pineapple zesting gains musty cannabis-like Strata-hopped dryness as well as mild lemon-limed gooseberry, guava and white grape bittering. Creamy oated wheat base stays sturdy. Recommended.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, waxy vodka-licked tropical fruiting picks up buttery hop oiling above lightly creamed oated wheat spine. Lemony pineapple, grapefruit and orange rind dryness contrasts peachy tangerine tang.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, dry NEIPA brings yellow grapefruit-peeled pineapple zesting to wood-dried grassy hop astringency countering honeyed oated wheat sweetness in centrist manner. Needs deeper malt penetration.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, salty lemony grapefruit bittering meets Nelson Sauvin-hopped white wining and waxy mango-skinned guava tartness above lightly creamed oated wheat. At the finish, vodka-licked tropical fruit shellac guards dank grassy stead.
