On tap at Amazing Grapes, saison-styled sour ale blends French and American oak-barrel aged Opal Saison, thrusting lactic brettanomyces acidity upon lightly vinous lemon-seeded green grape tartness and rustic barnyard-grained musk. Delicate Sauvignon Blanc, unripe peach and apricot wisps dissipate beneath lemony white wine tannins.
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned beige-yellowed saison offers mild lemon-limed mandarin orange tartness to woody Amarillo hop bittering and dry earthen leathering.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, local Jersey blueberries get lightly soured over dried apricot, fig and plum supplement for newly hybridized berry-fruited saison. Gluey fructose malt extract adds slick plasticine glaze to descending waxy blueberry adjunct while saison yeast adds proper cellar funk to spritzy lemon rind bittering awaiting salted blueberry finish.
Recalling a lactic Berliner Weiss with its delicate salt-spiced dried fruiting and ersatz woodruff syruping, unbounded saison provides desiccated white peach souring to briny black peppercorn respite, picking up lightly vinous green grape esters, distant lemon-limed watermelon dehydration and oaken vanilla riffs beneath the musky peach surface.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, soft-toned sour ale “brewed with wild sage and lemongrass” maintains brisk lemon-limed carbolic spritz over brettanomyces-affected earthen barnyard parch. Aromatic sage sweetness softly surfaces to complement lemon candy, lemon zest and lemon custard illusions (as well as dried plum wisps and spicy coriander wisps). A fine herbal-spiced fruit-soured original.
On tap at Craft House, brusquely hop-embittered saison allows juniper-like tartness and dry hardwood musk to penetrate sharp orange rind, lemon peel and gooseberry illusions. Despite deep citric hop bitterness at finish, lightly soured saison surprisingly comes in at low 4.4% ABV.
“Sophisticated lawnmower beer” is slightly sour saison affected by light brettanomyces bacteria, vinous yellow-green grape serenade and oats-dried pilsner malting. Cider-licked Cabernet blanc, Sauvignon blanc and Cabernet illusions pick up zesty lemon spritz as well as black-peppered orange peel bittering and wildflower-honeyed lemongrass herbage.
On tap at Plank Pizza, interestingly hybridized wine-barrel aged saison (with camouflaged 7.9 ABV) offers contagious brettanomyces-soured peach overtones to vinous white grape frisk and lemon-rotted orange, apricot, pineapple, gooseberry and tangerine tartness. Mild herbal perfumed citrus niche and residual lemongrass stint counteract musty barnyard rusticity just below dried peach adjunct.
On tap at The Oath, slyly sessionable soft-toned saison deploys citric India Pale Ale-styled tang to grassy-hopped earthen barnyard dryness. Lemony yellow grapefruit entry picks up tertiary pineapple, passionfruit, guava and mango seduction.
On tap at The Oath, quaint wine-barreled farmhouse ale (with unassuming 9.5% ABV) brings bacterial brettanomyces-bound Champagne yeast souring to raw-honeyed lemon juicing, white-peppered hop pep, musky dried fruiting and murky strawberry adjunct. Vinous white grape tannins soak desiccated plum, pomegranate, white peach, crab apple and mandarin orange sedation above even dryer straw-hay-barnyard acridity . Not far removed from buckwheat honey mead styling.
On tap at The Oath, white-wined lactobacillus yeast souring affects tart yellow-fruited spicing and dry raw-honeyed pilsner malting of rangy farmhouse ale. Lemony orange-grapefruit spurt lingers above lightly leathered straw dryness.
On tap at The Oath, indecisive dry saison retains sessionable citric pleasantries but squanders paltry wattle-seeded coffee bean adjunct and roasted Tasmanian peppering. Sweet ‘n sour floral-spiced lemon, grapefruit and orange tartness picks up and latent earthen herbal whim that out-muscles any true java influence.
