Dry dark lager with dark-roast barley and dark-roast chocolate and earth-scorched Noble hops given Czech lager yeast base. Beneath the surface, sharp walnut, Brazil nut and cola nut respite snags smoky rye enticement and black coffee smudge.
In the can, headier stylistic Nod Hill ‘weisse’ collab obscures “classical banana-clove” onrush with dryer white peppered herbage and sourer lemon rot that keeps honeyed wheat base from sweetening up enough.
On tap at Ambulance, funky oak barrel-aged saison lets sour stave-smoked white wining pull the load. Salty lemon-candied green grape and white peach illusions gain mild hop astringency at the moderately vinous dry wine finish.
On tap at Ambulance, dryly sour saison (aged in neutral oak barrels) utilizes black-peppered grains of paradise spicing to scour barnyard-desiccated spelt and oats graining as mild brettanomyces funk provides sufficient acidity. Carbolic lemon spritz, green apple tartness, green grape esters and wispy passionfruit snips lightly affect piquant grains of paradise juicing.
On tap at Ambulance, simply refreshing Berliner weisse stays light and breezy as briny sea-salted lemon acidity picks up effervescent mandarin orange spritz, tart yogurt tang and light woodruff syruping over wheat-husked barnyard leathering.