On tap at 3 Knots Taphouse – Onancock, dried cocoa onrush picks up cola, walnut and Brazil nuttiness plus black tea earthiness and ashen hop char to contrast less distinct black licorice stash.
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SCHILLING RENNSTEIG SCHWARZBIER
On tap at Taphouse 15 and bettering most nebulous German dark lagers (schwarzbiers) currently on US market, well-designed moderation spreads dry coffee-stained Baker’s chocolate sustenance atop fresh baked rye breading, picking up mild candied toffee sweetness to contrast herb-tinged earthen truffle backend.
BAY STATE VELVET REVOLUCE BLACK LAGER
Brisk carbolic thrust prickles sour-milked burnt coffee bittering before mossy fungi cellar funk and mildewed fig desiccation nudge weedy brown-leafed hop foliage of musky black-malted lager.
GRIMM LITHOS SCHWARZBIER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, unsweetened cocoa nibs and carob-powdered nuttiness consume medium-bodied black lager. At the midst, dry black patent malt bittering brings day-old coffee remnant as mild Noble hop char singes leathery dried fruited swipe.
EAST ROCK BLACK LAGER
Lightly smoked dark chocolate bittering enjoins freeze-dried coffee sourness and distant earthen mossing for silken black-malted schwarzbier. Stylishly OK.
SINGLECUT FREE FORM JAZZ ODYSSEY
On tap at Growler & Gill, heavy coconut-chocolate infusion and milk-sugared vanilla sweetness embellish off-beat hybridized schwarzbier. Usually a tediously nebulous black lager style never as worthily profound as a permier porter-stout, Singlecut’s heightened schwarz proves to be one step ahead of the dull pack in terms of distinct flavor profiling. Its coconut-chocolate-vanilla aspirations invite lovely gingerbread, sarsaparilla, cinnamon and toffee illusions to join the malt-roasted party. “A unique spin” on a German black beer. In the can, sweet coconut-chocolate enclave receives dryer Black Patent malt bittering, coffee-dried nut char and cocoa powdered chalking.
FIDDLEHEAD SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY SCHWARZBIER
On tap at Ambulance (and named after a popular children’s picture book), dewy fig-spiced black lager malting provides fine initial impression for scaled-up German-styled schwarzbier. Bittersweet chocolate-seeded toffee spell quickly conquered by latent coffee-roasted burnt breading. Much neglected black lager category well served by this rangy moderate-medium body.
CATSKILL NIGHTSHINE BLACK LAGER
On tap at A Better Place, seamless schwarzbier utilizes dehusked black malts to set up chalky black chocolate malting and ashen cocoa-dried bittering for nutty hop char. Blackened mocha richness gains latent black grape, black currant and Blackstrap molasses illusions.
ASBURY PARK SMOKED BLACK LAGER
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, beechwood-smoked barley roast deepens dark chocolate malting, black licorice licks and candied toffee nicety. Peppery citrus nip fills the backend.
RAHR & SONS UGLY PUG BLACK LAGER
On tap at Brick House Tavern – Plano, eager-to-please schwarzbier leaves rich dark-roasted mocha trail. Black patent-malted chocolate and coffee tones enjoin earthen peat dewiness and ancillary fig-date snips as its burnt toast spine develops firmness.
AUSTIN STREET SUCCINCT SCHWARZBIER
On tap at Ambulance, vague dark-roasted mocha malting, mild peat musk and lightly spiced dried fruiting lack resilience. But understated chocolate-cocoa passage gains traction.
BUNKER / FINBACK COCO LOCO BLACK LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, aimless one-time collaboration with New York’s Finback puts the proverbial ‘lime in the coconut’ but leaves very little drupe influence upon limey grape-stemmed tannins. Musky dry hop bittering and ashen tobacco overwhelm any bitter coconut watering.
