On tap at Ambulance Brew House, crisply polished moderate-bodied pale lager utilizes highly concentrated citric hop oiling to ‘up’ the sour saison-like yellow fruiting. As gentle as a lamb, its floral-wafted German Polaris hop strain provides light lemony pineapple, papaya and guava illusions over soft pine tones and distant earthen musk.
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GUINNESS BLOND AMERICAN LAGER
Suitably mainstream pale lager offers maize-dried astringency to corn-sugared sweetness, and silken crystal malt creaming, picking up a salty orange fizz at the midst. Pasty cardboard edges hedge in minor phenol astringency. Indifferent Mosaic hop fruiting deadens the mood.
JACK’S ABBY HOPSTITUTION #3 CALYPTRA
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, wonderful citrus-crisped pale lager hybrid utilizes alpha-acidic calypso and citra hops to beguile the senses. Wafting lemon zest briskness informs up-front yellow grapefruit tang and subsequent orange rind bittering, pineapple tartness, mango tropicalia and tangerine sweetness. Dry woody tones and grassy hemp reminder reinforce zesty yellow-orange fruiting. Beats original Hopstitution hands down.
JACK’S ABBY JABBY BRAU
SPEAKEASY METROPOLIS LAGER
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, dismissive German-styled pale lager relegates red-orange fruiting to funky vegetal spoilage and starchy corn malting. Toasted white bread spine falters.
SINGLECUT KIM HIBISCUS SOUR LAGRRR
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, indeterminate hybridized pale lager loads bacterial brettanomyces souring atop subtle hibiscus flowering and wispy black currant nuances. Sour green apple, cherry, lemon and lime tartness as well as vinous green grape tannins usurp mildly pungent lactic acidity. Just needs clearer stylistic definition and deeper resonance.
KARBACH SYMPATHY FOR THE LAGER
Muddled pale lager with comic moniker spoofing lager’s declining stylistic interest while parodying Rolling Stones decadent “Sympathy For The Devil” lyrics on side of can. Navel orange-dried grapefruit-pineapple-lemon fruiting diminishes above white-breaded Vienna malting, toasted hop stead and floral-herbal nip.
(COSTA RICA) IMPERIAL SILVER
Best selling Costa Rican beer on West Coast circa 2014 has to be this slightly cloy malt-sugared moderation. Sugar-caned corn sweetness outdoes astringent maize-hopped acridity, picking up cloy wet-papered stickiness if clear-yellowed light body gets warm. Friendly hop spritz coats white-breaded spine. Tinnier canned version loses luster.
JACK’S ABBY HOPSTITUTION XPL
Adequate straw-paled moderation brings mild lemony orange-peeled tang to subtle white-peppered hop bittering and resinous pine nook. Ancillary pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine and mango illusions slither by. Crystalline-watered crisping, fresh herbal nuances and white-breaded spine further soften the mood.
AMSTEL BRIGHT
From an original Dutch Caribbean recipe, sessionable light-bodied pale lager ransacks sunny lemon zest brightness with phenol grassy hop astringency, minor acetylene acridity and metallic tinge. Hints of lemongrass nip soft rice-grained white wheat spine. Designed for sweltering beachtime activities.
FLORIDA LAGER
Complacent soft-toned pale body contrasts raw-honeyed orange-candied tartness with wispy caramel malt creaming. Sharp hop bittering and fuzzy diacetyl oiling nullify wavered tropical fruiting.