On tap at Jimmy’s No. 43, dark toffee aromatics inform cocoa-powdered Baker’s chocolate entry and heavily smoked black chocolate bittering. Sweet n’ sour hop-oiled nuttiness fills the backend. 

On tap at Track 84, subtle nitro-creamed dry stout stays soft on the tongue. Black chocolate malting and nutty hop-charred splurge receive smoked rauchbier-like afterburner. Black cherry, vanilla and cappuccino undertones caress oats-toasted backend.

Relaxing creamed coffee mellowness flutters across dark-roasted chocolate malting and hop-charred cola-hazelnut bittering of fine dry-bodied stout. Ashen peat-smoked burnt wood undertone and fluctuant dark cherry fruiting gain footing at espresso-milked center. Less adventurous dark ale newcomers will find its easygoing appeal most delightful.  

On tap at Copper Mine, adamant coffee bean roast and resilient cocoa-powdered dark chocolate backup engage briny salt-watered oyster shelling. Ashen nuttiness reinforces rich mocha frontage but only the slightest dried fruiting emerges.

Ambitious dry stout provides salty oyster-shelled brining to immediate coffee bean roast and lactic cocoa-powdered dark chocolate follow-up. Bittersweet vanilla seeding casually strolls across nutty java efficacy and soft wood-scorched hop char. Tertiary pine tar, charcoal and chewing tobacco undertones simmer beneath creamy mochaccino-espresso dalliance. Initial coffee thrust peters out a tad, but mocha-bound medium-full body stays soothingly robust.

Peculiarly captivating mocha stout brewed with orange peel (!) brings sharp-spiced Belgian chocolate to roasted coffee midst. Could pass for a black chocolate-fronted Irish Stout or a amiable schwarzbier. Advertised orange peel bittering sits at tart backend.

Nifty pepper-spiced stout makes for solid and approachable adjunct ale. Aged on cocoa nibs and ancho chile peppers, its hot-spiced regalia amiably complements the salient cocoa-dried black chocolate stream. Never profoundly offbeat or weirdly obtuse, this subtly chili-peppered mocha-bound elixir pairs well with spicy southwestern cuisine.

Terrific non-traditional mocha-spiced full body with nebulous foreign/export stout labeling offers illusionary plentitude. Molasses-soaked anise, cherry puree and black cardamom lead the charge as nutty chocolate backend gains luster. Cappuccino-frothed espresso-dried coffee bittering enhances subsidiary wood-charred cola, macadamia, and hazelnut coarsening. Tertiary cocoa-buttered licorice, sarsaparilla, and chicory nuances eventually seep into the mix.

Smooth coffee bean entry receives creamy chocolate-milked sweetness contrasting charcoal-tarred bittering. Briny oyster-salted sea-watered sinew elevates peat-malted hop-charred barley roast, reinforcing subsidiary cocoa-powdered vanilla, walnut and hazelnut illusions. Mild Baker’s chocolate, mochaccino, and espresso nuances dance across dry mocha finish as latent Scotch-burgundy boozing caresses robust ink black ruffian.

Dramatic Belgian-styled chocolate stout works Blackstrap molasses thicket into candi-sugared black chocolate-spiced initiation and apprehensive oats-flaked hop-charred espresso-mochaccino reminder of musty 7.5% alcohol full body. At midst, vague coffee-grounded charred coal insinuation coarsens murky blackberry-blueberry-pureed digression. Peated hazelnut-walnut slunk, wavered pumpernickel toasting, gnarly tobacco chew spew and tertiary anise-currant bittering disperse lactic black chocolate lead-in.