Luscious barleywine aged nine months in apple brandy barrels with Ugandan vanilla beans picks up caramelized toffee spicing and candied molasses glaze to override lightly pungent earthen truffle fungi musk. At the sweet whiskeyed brandy finish, wispy white truffle pastry, creme brulee, bruised cherry and fig cake illusions arrive.
CENTRAL WATERS TWO SCHULMAN’S WALK INTO A BREWERY BOURBON AGED IMPERIAL STOUT
Dry bourbon serenity cloaks day-old coffee musk and black grape esters contrasting dark chocolate-coated cherry cordial sweetness and dark cherry tartness of richly smooth 10% ABV barrel aged stout.
FOUNDERS KBS SPICY CHOCOLATE 2023 IMPERIAL STOUT
Mole-inspired Kentucky Bourbon Stout variant circa ’23 lets dried chili peppers influence fudgy brown chocolate creaming, bourbon vanilla sweetness and roasted coffee depth of rich barrel-aged nightcap. Mild chili pepper heat simmers below mocha bourbon coffee theme as tertiary candied molasses, bold burgundy, burnt caramel and espresso licks emerge.
CUSHWA RAMBO
Heavily viscous dark chocolate creaming reaches fudgy froth as vanilla-beaned espresso nuttiness, Blackstrap molasses bittering and hop-charred dark-roast barley contrast nutty Mud Pie confection. Beneath the thick surface, trickled anise, burgundy and spiced toffee illusions underscore the syrupy cacao finish.
CUSHWA RAMBO WITH VANILLA IMPERIAL MILK STOUT
Luxuriously rich milk stout with cascading brown head settling to a healthy mocha froth. Three vanilla bean variants add luscious sweetness and vanilla extract bittering to fudgy chocolate insistence above treacly wheat-honeyed molasses oats. Entrenched vanilla creaming soon gains chocolate bourbon cake, hazelnut coffee, French vanilla cappuccino and frosty buttercream illusions.
RUSTY RAIL VANILLA WOLF KING IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Hoovers Tavern, lovely vanilla extract-infused version of Warrior Blue coffee-forward oatmeal stout contrasts sweet bourbon vanilla luster with syrupy dark chocolate malting and mild hop char, picking up wispy dark cherry puree, toasted coconut and glazed hazelnut illusions.
TWO VILLAINS / AUTODIDACT RATIONAL GAZE IMPERIAL STOUT
Fudgy maple syrup drapes creamed coffee and vanilla sweetness to brown chocolate base of decadent sweet-toothed dessert nightcap.
VARITAGE WASHINGTON ST. RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE STOUT
Partnering with nearby Anthony’s Cheesecakes, flurried raspberry puree tartness engages rich vanilla creaming and pastry-like chocolate caking of confectionery milk stout. Persistent raspberry, vanilla and milk chocolate sweetness reaches honeyed Graham Cracker base.
TOPPLING GOLIATH TERM OIL FLUFFERNUTTER BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Taphouse 15, decadent Term Oil variant re-creates classic Fluffernutter sandwich with dry roasted peanut buttering and vanilla-sugared marshmallow creaminess. Dry bourbon-burgundy wining contrasts fudgy chocolate cookie sweetness and honeyed Graham Cracker backend of caramelized peanutty marshmallow confection.
DE MOLEN HEAVEN & HELL
On tap at Taphouse 15, protruding dark malts impart powdered chocolate, light-roast coffee and espresso illusions as oaken vanilla dries out light nut char contrasting burnt caramel sweetness of slightly bitterer straightforward stout from Holland.
VAULT OPENING BELL BREAKFAST STOUT
Conditioned on coffee beans and draped with Vermont maple syrup, rich lactic breakfast stout gains bittersweet dark chocolate creaming. Upfront dark-roast coffee tones remit espresso, latte and cafe au lait illusions before reaching its sweet maple oats base.
BURLINGTON BEER ALIEN HYMNS & STONER FABLES IMPERIAL OATMEAL STOUT
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, advertised French press coffee, flourless chocolate cake, figgy pudding and chocolate-covered raisin illusions unite above maple molasses oatmeal base. Silken milk chocolate continuance gains mellow vanilla, coffee, nougat and hazelnut snips.