On tap at Poor Henry’s, rich honey porter soaked in Brinley Gold Shipwreck rum barrels succeeds at re-creating brown-sugared Bananas Foster dessert embittered and emboldened by blackened hop char. Black chocolate roast overrides rummy Kahlua warmth, vanilla-spiced molasses syruping, pungent coffee bittering, toasted pumpernickel retreat, black licorice waft and wildflower-honeyed floral bouquet at bustling finish.

Ancient German-styled ‘Kottbusser’ (a porter-like brown ale with honey molasses and oats) brings dark-roasted mocha malting to musty dried fruiting and nutty chocolate reminder. Dry-honeyed rye molasses breading reinforces caramel-burnt chocolate truffle creaming, sugar cookie sweetness, toasted almond-pecan nuttiness and zippy cola-hazelnut whims above oats-flaked spelt graining. On tap, glutinous honeyed molasses rye breading, brown-sugared dark chocolate sweetness and descant coffee roast lead the way as scant raisin, date, port and cola whims flutter below.

Bittersweet clover honey adjunct reinforced by dark-roasted black patent malting, ground coffee roast and charred hop singe. Mild Blackstrap molasses, black tea, dark cocoa and charred nut illusions subside to sour lemon-peeled espresso midst. Phenolic raw-honeyed mocha finish receives dirty earthen musk.

Dashing molasses-sugared oak-aged porter whimsically compares favorably to Newcastle Brown Ale. Treacly molasses sapping softly layers brown chocolate-malted vanilla, coconut, butternut, honey-glazed maple, spice cake and cola illusions as well as lesser rum-spiced sherry, bourbon and burgundy wining. Oaken whiskey snip gets diluted over time.

Resinous ruddy brown porter with hop-roasted get-up places creamy honey nut sweetness, charitable cocoa-buttered mocha sway, and bruised cherry-prune tang against overwhelming wood-charred bittering. Full-bodied and well balanced, but lacking assertive chocolate-coffee finish.