On tap, brusque German-style bohemian pilsner retains musty bread-crusted grain malting, dried-out yellow-fruited pungency and earthen hop musk. Sweet biscuit-y notion placates raw wheat bottom, sour mash wort and mild resinous bittering. Stylistically robust.
Perhaps closer to a less woody, more alcohol-bent IPA than a prevalent barleywine styling. Floral-pined grapefruit bittering and grassy tobacco-leafed crisping contrast hop-spiced apricot-tangerine-cantaloupe tang of amber-hazed medium body. Frugal brown-sugared baked apple pie nuance bears witness. Set back pineapple, mango and peach melba illusions add tropical wave.
Quaffed on tap at lower Manhattan’s d.b.a., hand-pulled rust-glowed cask conditioned smoothie offers piney yellow-fruited frontage assuaging floral daisy-rosebud waft and sweet spruce reminder. Soft Cascade-hopped ripple conveys dewy melon-mango-kiwi-papaya-pineapple-nectarine tang and secondary grapefruit acidity. Lovely lemon meringue fluff consumes zesty fruited finish.
