On tap at Ambulance, resounding bourbon barrel-aged Assassin Stout variant drapes honey-glazed coconut sweetness with peanut buttered chocolate fudging above rich cookie dough bottom. Mild bourbon whiskey alcohol burn persists as chocolate pudding reminder completes coconut mocha macchiato-like nightcap.
On tap at Taphouse 15, decadent 6th anniversary pastry stout subtly dabs Buffalo Trace whiskey across lactose-aided Madagascar vanilla creaming, cinnamon-spiced maple syruping and honeyed Graham Cracker spine for French Toast breakfast cereal-inspired knockoff. Dough-fried churro, spiced bourbon and mint chocolate illusions add recessive pleasantries.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, creamy Ethiopian Yirgacheffe cold brew coffee entry gains seared walnut bittering and mild berry tartness. Mellow vanilla-tinged cocoa sweetness underscores milked coffee nuttiness.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, creamy peanut butter-smeared dark chocolate richness gains walnut-seared cola nip and mild gingerbread coffee riffs, finishing like a heavily peanut-oiled Reese’s Pieces confection.
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, lactose milk sugaring seeps into buttercream-frosted vanilla sweetness and maple-molasses cinnamon toasting guarding loosely defined brown ale. But phenol citric-tinged astringency slightly hampers maple-syrupy French Toast finish.
“Beguiling” barrel-aged dubbel steeped in red wine and bourbon stays mellow as caramelized dried fruiting soaks up chewy brown chocolate sweetness. Brown-sugared bruised cherry, red grape, green raisin and fig tones caress whiskey-bent bourbon serenity for mild complexity.
Fizzy pale green cleared Berliner Weisse relegates tart blue raspberry souring for lime-salted kiwi, pineapple and mango tropicalia, but it gets way too cloy despite moderate citrus acidity. Sweet-Tart Pez candied pucker glides into salt-rimmed Margarita reminder. A slick 7-11 kiddie cocktail knockoff.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, tart blood orange-pureed blackberry adjunct reinforces fruited candy souring of pinkish blush sour ale. Salted grapefruit, kiwi and mango tropicalia plays possum.
On tap at Ambulance, tannic ruddy amber Flemish-styled red ale (aged in red wine barrels) drapes balsamic vinegar atop oaken cherry tartness and leathery barnyard funk. Sharp cherry-cranberry-crabapple souring submerges musky grape skin tannins and dry limey bittering.
On tap at Taphouse 15, tart pastry-styled Imperial Sour Ale dupes strawberry rhubarb pie with frosty milk-sugared marshmallow sweetness. Tart strawberry midst locates mild lemon-candied orange oiling and bubbly champagne misting.
On tap at Ambulance, curious mixed culture saison combines brown sour ale and golden sour ale for a tannic Flemish Red hybrid. Bubbly champagned-licked lemon liming gains fizzy white wining, oaken cherry tartness and dry peppercorn spicing over barnyard-dried herbage. Vinous lactobacillus yeast provides dry wined acidity for soured wild ale.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, muted lemony blackberry tartness lingers softly above musty fungi-induced barnyard acridity and spicy saison yeast peppering. Needs more pronounced blackberry influence.
