On tap at Seven Lakes Station, lavender tea-like earthiness greets Meyer lemon tang and limey bittering for sourly ‘tart ale.’ Lemon-juiced lavender adjunct picks up latent vinous white wining.
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LONE EAGLE BOYSENBERRY GUSHER
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, boysenberry-forward, salmon coral-hazed, kettle acidified ‘gusher’ retains tart berry essence. Limey boysenberry salting admits ancillary blackberry, raspberry cranberry and huckleberry illusions to flourish alongside wispy ruby red grapefruit zesting and mildly floral rosé misting.
BOLERO SNORT BLOOM MOOAU
Thick rust bronze glowed fruited sour ale rampages forward with tart limey strawberry, guava and passionfruit adjuncts outdoing banana taffy sweetness and concentrated orange juicing over milk-sugared vanilla creaming. Another exceptional, richly textured, tartly soured Smoothie by Bolero.
UNTIED PROFUSELY FRUITY SOUR ALE
On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, lovely passionfruit-orange-pineapple-infused version lets limey Sweet-Tart candied fruitiness captivate milk-sugared marshmallow sweetness contrasting salted pineapple-mango souring. Dainty passionfruit florality glides thru zesty orange-pineapple permanence in mellow fashion.
BOLERO SNORT MOOTHIE PARTY
Ultra-juicy smoothie features tartest mango, pineapple, tangerine and passionfruit adjuncts for candied Laffy Taffy bluster with a mouth-puckered sour edge (and wispy oaken vanilla tannins). Zesty concentrated orange zing, sassy strawberry rhubarb piquancy and sour guava snips add further Sweet-tart soured vibrancy to thickly resilient tropical smoothie.
CATSKILL FREAK TRACTOR SOUR (MODEL #14)
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, zesty grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering gains mild white-peppered herbage, wavered piney respite and earthen barnyard desiccation over honeyed pale malts (for latent followup to 2015’s Model #1). Wispy brettanomyces yeast souring stays subtle despite wild ale styling.
SUN LAB EVERYTHING IS SURREAL SOUR ALE
On tap at Ambulance, sour lemon-candied Pez tartness rallies round cinnamon-spiced vanilla sweetness, mild black currant bittering, strawberry rhubarb piquancy salted green grape pucker and oaken vanilla tannins to its sugary Graham Cracker spine for perplexingly offbeat gose-like abstrusity.
KCBC BUSHWICK ZOMBIE FRUITED SOUR
Arid carbolic nature sucks out some lemon-salted sour fruiting and dry Sangria appeasement of pallid sour ale. Leathery green grape esters and subtle blueberry-strawberry adjuncts flutter blandly.
BOLERO SNORT POLAR MOOAU
Thickly tart intensity magnified by pineapple-juiced pink guava, papaya and pomegranate sourness to contrast lactic-doused marshmallow sugaring (and piquant strawberry rhubarb snip) in Sour Patch Kids candied manner. Formidable kettle-soured tropical fruiting retains mouth-puckeringly eye squinting tartness but only mild vinous acidity.
BOLERO SNORT MELE KALIKIMAKOW KETTLE SOUR
When it’s not promoting penetratingly puckered strawberry, banana, coconut and pineapple adjuncts, progressively tart rust-hazed kettle sour recalls salty Margarita or citric-juiced Mimosa champagne. Creamily rich banana sweetness gains sour lemon liming as strawberry rhubarb, milked coconut and zesty pineapple illusions enjoin tangy peach-mango subtleties.
FIFTH HAMMER PRICKLY WHISKERS SOUR ALE
On tap at Ambulance, easygoing pinkish amber-glazed sour ale with moderate acidity welcomes subtle Opuntia cactus (prickly pear) to mild lemon lime spritzer. Muted prickly pear salting invites teasing passionfruit, watermelon, pomegranate and raspberry illusions to the delicate tropical setting.
FLYING FISH SALT AND SEA SESSION SOUR ALE
Refreshingly clean salt-watered taffy tartness promoted by limey strawberry pucker. Mildly sour sea-salted lime briskness combines with strawberry spritz and less prominent agave-cologned herbage for White Claw hard seltzer appeal, but Graham Cracker wheat bottom’s outta place. On tap at Hoover’s Tavern April 2024, sea-salted lime zesting gained tart strawberry snag as Jolly Rancher Watermelon and candied tangerine illusions sneak thru mildly acidic summertime dry bodied sour.
