On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, underwhelming Czech dark lager utilizes rhubarb-like buckwheat to sop up dark cocoa dryness and dark-roast hops, gaining slight almond, chestnut and date dollops above soggy bread-crusted pumpernickel rye base.
Sedate caramelized rye spicing sidles dried cocoa powdering as crisp tobacco roast drifts into tertiary brown tea, truffle mold and mossy peat snips.
Dry maize-flaked Mexican dark lager flips peat mossy brown tea musk onto earthen truffle crisping, black peppered herbage, wispy blackcurrant tartness and light smoked beechwood remnant. Richer and more tasty than usual Mex suspects.
Tarry black coffee-stained bittering lingers as deep espresso flurry thickened by Hallertau hop-charred walnut sear and bitter Black malt bottom. Beneath the musky mocha surface, dark-roasted chocolate wheat malts and dehusked carafa malts lightly sweetened by cereal-grained pilsner malts.
Cold brewed espresso adjunct consumes dark Czech-styled lager upfront before mild coffee-roasted dark cocoa bittering picks up coarse hop astringency that confiscates latent burnt toasted remnant, dry rye spree and black licorice whim from kilned melanoidin malting.
Musty coffee dampens nutty dark-roast hop char, integrating ashen cola, walnut and Brazil nuttiness with oncoming dark cocoa powdering consuming musky mocha finish.
Frothy nut-charred grain coarsening, dark cocoa pungency and musky Perle-Saaz hop herbage enrich honey-roasted midnight wheat base of Czech-styled Jersey collaboration. Freeze-dried coffee, espresso, cola nut and Brazil nut illusions deepen its mocha insistence.
Dewy mildewed earthiness clogs mild coffee patter, snug dark-roast hop bittering and feint nut char of middling dark lager.
Day-old light roast coffee nuttiness enters the fray before debittered black malt scrum and dark cocoa powdering reach mild black tea bittering above weedy earthen peat remnant.
Boring bronze moderation with bread crusted pilsner malts providing dull bed for burnt coffee simmer, phenol Perle hop spicing, leafy autumnal earthiness, raw molasses dreck, undefined herbage and musty orange oiling.
Besting most nebulous dark lagers with its upfront hop-charred coffee roast and nut-seared dark chocolate bittering, medium-full-bodied recalls a mocha stout given fizzy clean-watered effervescence.
Soft creaminess coats understated caramelized barley-chestnut roast, dewy peat mossing and mild toffee sweetness leading to blanched fig-dried cocoa stead. Light hop spicing tingles tongue. Fine middle-of-the-roader.
