On tap at Ambulance, amplified brown ale brings black chocolate malt linger to light-roasted nuttiness and brown-sugared molasses sweetness. Fudgy hazelnut, pecan and chestnut illusions delicately drift into dusty cocoa chalking. Wispy vanilla creaming and subtle dried fruiting caress backend of compelling ‘imperial’-like dark ale.
Humdrum moderation lets sour lemon appeasement, barnyard hay astringency and floral hop whim fade to light French-breaded spine. Could use firmer body and crisper citric snap.
Murky moderate-bodied India Pale Ale (Heavy Seas’ first new year-round offering since 2003) offers dry rye wheat malting to musty orange rind bittering, tart lemon zing and ephemeral floral nip. Wispy straw-dried grassy hop astringency wavers beneath. Serve to leftover macrobrew fanatics as an alternative to blander BudMillerCoors suds.
Shyly sessionable IPA moderates piney citrus hop expectancy for herbaceous floral uprising and tea-honeyed crystal malting. Mild grapefruit pith bittering, orange rind sedation and ‘woodsy pine’ tones usurp grassy astringency. Pineapple, papaya and kiwi tropicalia stays way back in the mix.
On tap at Sooey’s BBQ in Nags Head, anonymously sessionable IPA lacks proper citric-hopped astringency and overall resilience. Light lemony grapefruit-orange spicing and dry wood tones fade quickly over meager white-breaded malting.
Spunky juicy-fruited overload gains creamy caramel malt sweetness alongside pine-needled citric hop bittering. Honeyed peach, mango, nectar and orange tang as well as candied lemon tartness pick up floral-spiced tingle. Will please session IPA drinkers and less restrictive hopheads.
Silken coffee roast picks up cocoa-dried black chocolate malting and resinous hop oiling for stylish Baltic porter. Smoothly creamed mocha resilience outlasts day-old coffee reminder, soy-sauced vanilla extract bittering, weedy black tea trifle and latent charcoal reminder.
Snickering misnomers include Imperial styling and ‘black’ hue, but not ‘sessionable’ appeal. Instead, this here’s a golden-strawed West Coast-styled India Pale Ale with tropical citra-mosaic hop bite and light pilsner malting. Pleasant yellow grapefruit tartness picks up lemony pineapple, mango, orange and tangerine tang. Light resinous pine bittering contrasts honeyed citrus sweetness.
On tap at Ambulance, sweet cocoa sugaring and brown chocolate sweetness combine with light bourbon spicing for relaxing medium-bodied dessert treat. Simply delicious and perfect for sweet-toothed imbibers.
On tap at Ambulance, rich medium-full body gathers dark-roasted black and brown chocolate sweetness for advertised cocoa nibs buttering and vanilla-creamed hazelnut fudging. Wispy star anise spicing further sweetens decadent mocha malting. Fermented with dry-iced yeast rocketed into outer space, gimmicky stout goes well as dessert.
By combining brewers’ Roebling Imperial Porter with Michigan dark cherries, inconsequential 2015 hybrid overwhelms all of its mild bourbon barrel flavoring and most of its mocha porter luster with vinous oaken cherry tartness. Pithy earthen musk scoured by mellow yellow grape vinegaring at mouth-puckering sour cherry finish.
On tap at Ambulance, bizarrely hybridized English-styled porter benefits from vinous black grape souring and leathery lemon rind bittering of spontaneously fermented lambic yeast. French-press coffee milking, musty chocolate dusting and earthen nuttiness slowly subside above oaken cherry tartness.
