On tap at Ambulance, mildly acidic brettanomyces yeast brings dry lemon-limed tartness and briny limestone salting to moderate piney hop bitterness of easygoing sour IPA. Wispy tropical-fruited peach, passionfruit, pineapple, papaya and guava illusions lurk below slightly sour citric tangent.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, splendid collaborative effort between Little Ferry brewer and Poor Henry zymurgist, Jesse, is a hazily beige-yellowed brettanomyces-soured wild ale utilizing floral-spiced lychee and vanilla beans to secure its dry-hopped (Citra-Galaxy) base. Alongside mildly acidic lychee adjunct, subtle unripe strawberry, passionfruit and yellow grapefruit illusions pick up herbal fennel, rosemary and thyme seasoning at crisp, clean sour-candied finish.
Sharply dry-hopped lemon zest increases tangy grapefruit peel bittering over salty Seltzer-watered bottom of easygoing moderation. Sour citric midst picks up mild pomegranate and crab apple pucker as well as candied orange nip.
Fine Galaxy-hopped version of brettanomyces-soured India Pale Ale offers lemony pineapple-grapefruit-orange tang and juicy mango-peach-passionfruit sweetness to sharp juniper-hopped bittering. Though bacterial brettanomyces influence remains uninvolving or merely secondary, pronounced fruitiness will appease sweeter thirsts dissuaded by acrid sour ales.
On tap at Ambulance, sessionably soft-tongued India Pale Ale hybrid utilizes lactobacillus yeast souring to affect soft salt-watered citric hop pungency, Granny Smith apple tartness, tannic green grape vinegaring and light peach-nectarine-mango tang. Wispy coriander spicing underscores reluctant lemony grapefruit pining. Polite mineral graining freshens funky citric-soured finish.
