On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, luxuriously bold barrel-aged pastry stout (10.5% ABV) features Smith Bowman Distillery bourbon. Loading lovely bourbon vanilla sugaring upon fudgy dark chocolate and coconut-toasted caramel salting, its oncoming black cherry, sweet burgundy and dry sherry illusions deliver plush spirited goodness, but its honeyed Graham Cracker base may be a tad askew (or simply too much) flavor-wise.
Fudgy cocoa entry quickly gains mild smoked chocolate bitterness, dewy raisin-prune-date dried fruiting and banana breaded sweetness as dry bourbon and sweet sherry spirits arrive. In the distance, spiced fruitcake, Black German cake, Devil's food cake, Dutch cocoa powder and dark chocolate-draped pomegranate illusions beckon.
A strong peanut butter waft emanates from robust nutty porter. Salty peanut resonation picks up peanut skin layer as mild hazelnut, Brazil nut and walnut subtleties gently emerge alongside unsweetened grape jam wisp.
Smoothly dry whiskey-daubed bourbon and rye spirits perk up stylish mossy peat earthiness and light oaken vanilla tannins as faraway apple-skinned cherry tartness emerges.
Richly creamed sugary soda pop, hard-candied Strawberry Patch confection or jellied donut alternative? Strawberry pureed cake batter and bittersweet vanilla beans seep into brown-sugared pie crust given proper phenol hop astringency. Tangy ambrosial melange of cherry pie, lemon meringue, orange cake and peach cobbler make superb auxiliary for dandy strawberry elixir.
Bitterly tarred dark chocolate syrup drapes mild coffee roast, nutty dark-roast hop char and burnt wood sear for briskly dry Irish stout-like porter.
Lovely holiday-spirited Scottish ale with spicy caramel kick brings sweetish dewy peat to chalky cocoa base as perky cinnamon-nutmeg spicing, laidback dried cherry tartness and roasted chestnut-almond-pecan combo stick to gluey wheat sugaring.
On tap at Ambulance, interesting porter variant with vanilla, maple and chestnut adjuncts placed against dark-roast hops. Vanilla-chipped maple sugaring picks up medicinal black cherry bruise, green raisin ripeness and dewy peat sweetness.
On tap at Ambulance, crayon-waxed yellow grapefruit, pineapple, tangerine and navel orange medley and tart passionfruit-gooseberry fling placed in mild buttery pale malting with creamy vanilla yogurt-soured oated wheat base.
Snazzily updated easygoing 'hazy' IPA (utilizing multiple fruited hops circa 2025) sweeps juicy tangerine puree thru mellow pineapple zesting, gaining mellow yellow grapefruit bittering atop mildly creamed oats base.
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned New England styled IPA (honoring Knicks legend Walt Frazier) lets light oated creaming delicately await clean cryo Citra-hopped yellow grapefruit and orange pith bittering as well as laidback floral-spiced herbage.
Soft-toned New Zealand hop-influenced Imperial IPA utilizes Cryo Citra-hopped Sauvignon Blanc grape must to gleamingly tweak brisk yellow grapefruit-seeded lemon zesting, sweet orange peel tanginess and light floral spicing. Distant 'mango, lychee, peach and nectarine' illusions punctuate the sweet end while tart lemon verbena piquancy slips thru lightly vanilla creamed oated wheat sugaring. Superb!
