On tap at Plank Pizza, festive German-styled marzen cakes dewy peat moss with mild brown-sugared pumpkin spicing as subtle chestnut snips and buttered brown breading reach fleeting caramelized whiskey back.
UNTIED TURKEY TOWN LAGER MARZEN
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UNTIED POUND POUR NEW ENGLAND IPA
Dry-hopped Nelson Sauvin and Hallertau Blanc hops bring white-wined green grape esters, lemon-candied pineapple tang and brisk orange rind bittering to the surface as dank pine resin sticks to dry pale malting.
UNTIED FILE THIS INDIA PALE ALE
Lemon-zested orange, tangerine, mango and grapefruit tanginess picks up lacquered evergreen pining over crystal pale malting. Wispy radish-onion vegetalia stays beneath vodka-licked citrus finish.
UNTIED ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN MILK STOUT
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dry burnt coffee roast entry receives bittersweet chocolate, burnt caramel and charred walnut backup as distant cherry-plum snips waver.
UNTIED UNCHARTED DEPTHS BELGIAN DARK ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, fine Belgian strong ale lets candi-sugared fig, date and plum spicing glaze chocolate-malted caramelized rye base. At the midst, spritzy orange zesting soaks wintry ginger, nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon seasoning.
UNTIED PIONEER AMBER ALE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, dewy Extra Special Bitter leaves earthen nuttiness and cocoa powder upon Maris Otter-malted caramelized rye base.
UNTIED MORNING BREEZE DRY-HOPPED PILSNER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, easygoing dry-hopped pils lets lemony Seltzer fizz spark mandarin orange spicing, white peach twang and herb-tinged Huell Melon honeydew spew over straw-dried white wheat breading.
UNTIED PEOPLE PLEASER VIENNA LAGER
Conventional Vienna lager lacks assertiveness and distinct flavor profile. Sweet dewy peat seeps inside murky dried fig spicing, tingly candied apple smidge and lemon candied remnant as distant Tettnang hop earthiness contrasts toasted amber graining.
UNTIED BREWING COMPANY
NEW PROVIDENCE, NEW JERSEY
I’d already enjoyed fourteen different beers from UNTIED BREWING COMPANY before finally visiting this rustic red-bricked warehouse pub in Central Jersey during February ’23. Celebrating their fourth anniversary, Untied’s neon orange and blue insignia welcomes visitors to its industrialized gray brick-walled, cement-floored, high-ceilinged interior.
With an impressive stylistically varied lineup, Untied’s tile-walled draught handles serve the silestone formica-topped bar area, two metal-wood stooled community tables, a few white chaired four-seaters and a small couched space.
The third brewmaster since opening in 2019, Andrew Slick (formerly of Triumph and Kane), mans the rear tanks. We discussed all things beer while I ran the gamut of drinking all the previously untried suds available this seasonally warm winter’s day.
Sweet coconut toasting fortified corn-sugared cream ale, Clacking Coconuts, leaving macaroon, roasted chestnut, vanilla cookie, and marshmallow daubs.
Toasted amber grain crisping received musky dry-hopped Huelle Melon tropicalia as bright orange-peeled yellow grapefruit sunshine upended astringent herbal grassiness with a clean vodka nip for Morning Breeze Pilsner, a nearly white winey IPA-fruited alternative.
Mild lemony yellow grapefruit bittering, sweet orange peel zesting and subtle guava-pineapple souring engaged soft-toned 4th Trip Around The Sun NEIPA, leaving latent earthen pine resin to contrast its creamy vanilla froth.
Candi-sugared butterscotch rum warmth guided Thresh Tripel, a superfine Belgian ale with caramelized banana, pineapple cake, butter pecan, orange marmalade and honeyed peach sweetness contrasting white peppered fungi funk.
Rummy dark candi-sugaring draped Neuhaus Quad, another worthy Belgian styler with spicy fig, date and plum sweetness picking up caramelized pecan, bourbon vanilla and honey-glazed hazelnut illusions.
A nearly perfect dark lager, Dada loaded Folgers-like coffee crystals upon dark-roast chocolate and treacly cocoa nuttiness in a dark-roast hop setting.
Bittersweet dark chocolate and hazelnut coffee tones enriched Left In The Dark Imperial Stout, letting leathery cherry tannins supply slight acidity to the creamed mocha mandate.
As for the bourbon barrel-aged Left In The Dark, its sweet bourbon vanilla warmth penetrated coffee-roasted caramelized chocolate goodness and whiskeyed rye swipe.
UNTIED CLACKING COCONUTS CREAM ALE
On tap at Plank Pizza, mild cotton-candied coconut toasting, dried cocoa nibs and light lemon liming reach lightly creamed vanilla-sugared sourdough base. Some unwanted soapiness seeps thru cacao/coconut latte-finishing confection.
UNTIED LONG DAYS SHORT YEARS HELLES LAGER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, sedate raw-honeyed citrus dryness permeates spongy sourdough bottom, picking up mild Noble-hopped herbage to contrast slight sugar-spiced lager malts.
UNTIED WHAT’S THE HYPE IMPERIAL IPA W/COCONUT, PINEAPPLE & VANILLA BEANS
Steadfast orange-peeled grapefruit zesting gains laidback coconut-pineapple adjuncts and mellower mango-guava stint as mild piney hop bittering settles beneath. Delicate vanilla bean tannins influence tropical fruited nature but stylistic ‘milkshake’ and ‘New England’ labeling seem sketchy.
