Slightly tart fruit-forward sour ale risks finishing stingingly acidic instead of citric sharp. Puckered lemony passionfruit tartness gains spritzy lime zesting, mild guava tang and dry white wine vinegaring. Sourer than tart.
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TWO ROADS ROCKET 2 RUIN IMPERIAL COLD IPA
Even bitterer and boozier than original Road 2 Ruin, cold fermented hop heightening allows pungent lemony grapefruit-peeled orange rind bitterness to crowd the vodka-nipped juniper bite leading to its pine tar respite. The doughy base withers below the musky citric intensity contrasted lightly by floral-daubed strawberry, raspberry and cantaloupe reminders.
TWO ROADS IRISH EXIT – NITRO
On tap at Pompton Craft House, softly creamed dry Irish stout captured on nitro buttresses its nutted black coffee stead with dark chocolate malting and blackened hop char, gaining bitterer Blackstrap molasses treacle, caramelized espresso milking and distant dried black cherry snip. Smooth.
TWO ROADS AREA TWO MANGO WAUI HEMP IPA
On tap at Rebar – Lodi, dank Maui Waui hemp seed oiliness seeps into orange-juiced mango tang, picking up floral-daubed guava, papaya and lychee licks in semi-sharp citric hop setting.
(TWO ROADS) AREA TWO DARK SOUR CHERRY WILD ALE
From Area Two Experimental Series, tart Morello cherries gain sharply vinous white wine pucker, salted raspberry vinaigrette acidity and leathery barnyard astringency for mildly ammoniated pinkish amber-cleared sour ale. In the distance, cinnamon-burned red apple, pomegranate and cranberry illusions waver.
(TWO ROADS) AREA TWO TWOQUILA BARREL-AGED LIME GOSE
Briny lime-juiced blue agave adjunct – aged in tequila barrels – leaves dry (orange-less) Margarita appeal. But Seltzer-fizzed salted lime pucker receives preclusive lambic-like vinous acidity. Still, pairs well with spicy Mexican dishes.
TWO ROADS BLACK RASPBERRY LAMBIC
Musty oak-aged lambic (with profoundly thick purplish red wine hue) places soured black raspberry pureed tartness adjacent to tannic port esters, vinous white wining, dry Muscat grape musk and leathery farmhouse desiccation.
TWO ROADS PARTY CAKE PASTRY CREAM ALE
As luxuriously colorful as a Rainbow party cake, well-designed confectionery liquid pastry fills its center with flour-sugared vanilla buttercream as spiced rum persistence contrasts bitterly zestful citrus zing. But it’s sweet side wins out as dazzling white chocolate, marshmallow, vanilla cake, lemon cake, Banana’s Foster and flaked coconut illusions detail this experimentally hybridized ‘Area Two Series’ cream ale.
TWO ROADS CHERRY QUAD
Heady hard-candied cherry tartness flaunts candi-sugared dark rum spicing and grenadine-like pomegranate syruping in sticky medicinal setting. Whiskeyed cherry midst gains whimsical sugared fig, yellow raisin and cranberry snips as spritzy soda fizz tickles chewy cherry-pureed Belgian yeast foundation.
TWO ROADS PEACH JAM
On tap at Oscar’s Alehouse, lemony peach tartness stays mild as wispy hibiscus flowering and distant cranberry-mango-gooseberry souring flow below alongside its neutral cracked wheat base.
TWO ROADS CRUISE CONTROL LAGER
On tap at Growler & Gill, ‘easy riding’ aluminum-cleared helles lager brings tart lemon-dropped green grape esters and mild orange oiling to grassy herbal hop restraint above musky wet-grained sourdough breading.
TWO ROADS / EVIL TWIN SAIGON SCOOTER SELFIE VIETNAMESE STOUT
On tap at Woodstack Pizza, creamily brown-sugared coffee sweetness envelops rich java-influenced stout collab between two respected Connecticut brewers. Vietnamese iced coffee continuance gains light bourbon vanilla, milk chocolate, cacao nibs, cinnamon, molasses and café au lait illusions to further sweeten decadent coffee milkshake alternative.
