Lovely sweet-toothed dessert. Powdered sugar glazes cinnamon-toasted, buttercream-frosted brown chocolate base as luscious maple syruped toffee, creme brulee, cream soda, spiced rum and sarsaparilla illusions scatter thru mild vanilla extraction of charming pastry-like confection.
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SEVEN ISLAND SANTA’S HOT CHOCOLATE IMPERIAL STOUT
Creamy marshmallow-sugared cacao nibs advance alongside sharp ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg spicing. Mild cinnamon burn never retreats as tertiary brown chocolate syruping and bourbon vanilla nip thicken slightly intricate pastry stout.
ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU WINTER ALE
On tap at Ambulance, rich winter warmer (2021) allows buttery rum warmth to infiltrate subtle fig sweetness, spiced orange tinge, noirish port wining, candied red cherry dab and caramelized apple glaze in a dewily brown-sugared chocolate setting.
ALEMENTARY FIGGY PUDDING
Engagingly tranquil English-styled barleywine with mild rum barrel influence picks up musky cellar funk and dewy tobacco leaf crisping for warm molasses-draped bourbon spicing draping dried-fruited fig, apricot, date and prune easement.
DREKKER CHONK MIDNIGHT SNACK SUNDAE SOUR
Frothily creamed lactobacillus-cultured pastry dessert (with chewy fruit chunks pervading its purplish red hue) lets mellow Thunder coffee caffeination underscore gunky Hallertau Blanc-hopped boysenberry, blueberry and plum tartness sweetened by milk-sugared marshmallow fluff. Subtle red grape, cherry and strawberry illusions add to spumy fruit-forward berry spunk punctuated by soft serve chocolate ice cream draping richly yogurt-thick Smoothie.
DREKKER BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE SLANG DU JOUR SOUR
Slushy magenta-headed, burgundy-bodied Smoothie brings lightly salted fruit juicing to creamy milk-sugared blueberry tartness and vanilla-beaned granola oats. Blueberry pureed tanginess then picks up ancillary pineapple, orange seltzer, red grape, cherry, raspberry and tangerine illusions for astonishingly complex and richly whipped-creamed Sundae knockoff.
DREKKER BRAAAAINS DOUBLE FRUIT SMOOTHIE SOUR (PINEAPPLE/GUAVA/DRAGONFRUIT)
Frothily creamed fruit pastry-like Smoothie kicks ass! Zesty vanilla bean-glazed pineapple, pink guava and dragonfruit tropicalia thickened by orange concentrate juicing and sweet marshmallow fluff given moderately sour lactobacillus-cultured sea salting. Ambrosia salad, lemon-limed orange marmalade, dragonfruit custard, pineapple cake and pink guava daiquiri illusions spark tart fruited Smoothie perfection.
HARDYWOOD RUM BARREL PUMPKIN
Sneakily boozy (12% ABV) autumnal farmhouse pumpkin ale lets mild Blackstrap molasses-draped dark rum warmth smoothly serenade drifting brown-sugared pumpkin pie spicing contrasting rustic leafy-hopped gourd earthiness and herbal-tinged lemon rot. Dryly phenolic vanilla tannins seep into tertiary Chardonnay wining, cinnamon-spiced apple dapple, sour orange tartness, banana liqueur whim and dehydrated lemon nip.
O’FALLON PUMPKIN BEER
Thin sugar-rimmed pumpkin spicing and drifting gingerbread sweetness drowned out by fizzy phenolic esters. Distant ginger-leafed gourd earthiness and leafy hop oiling contrast faded cinnamon-nutmeg-clove seasoning below the fragile surface.

LORD HOBO DOOM SAUCE BLACK DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, bold flagship Boom Sauce given coffee-driven black malt roast to coerce orange-candied tartness and sappy pine resin above earthen oats-flaked spelt base.
WET TICKET PINEAPPLE HOPPER
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, lightly creamed milk-sugared Madagascar vanilla sweetness secures juicy pineapple tang for heavily oated Milkshake IPA. Zesty orange-peeled grapefruit zing enhances marshmallow-fluffed pineapple rapture.
DREKKER BENEVOLENT INTENTIONS DOUBLE IPA
Softly creamed tropical fruiting retains mild herbal hop bittering above barley-flaked spelt base. Lemony orange and grapefruit zesting provides Citra hop pleasantry and humble grape-soured Hallertau Blanc hop tingle snags whimsical mango, guava and papaya salting while tertiary peach and banana wisps help sweeten fluffily fruity moderate body.