On tap at Beef Trust, creamily thick slow sippin’ stout seamlessly integrates smooth honey-roasted peanut buttering with Ecuadorian cocoa pasting and Indian vanilla goo.
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SOUTHERN TIER NITRO COCONUT TRUFFLE IMPERIAL MILK STOUT
On tap at Birdsall House, decadent nitro milk stout regales marshmallow-sugared toasted coconut splendor with creamy sea-salted chocolate richness, bourbon vanilla luxuriance and caramelized hazelnut froth in earthen truffle setting. Highly recommended. In the can, silken dark chocolate syruping joins sweet coconut toasting and sea-salted caramel for creamily fudged nitro stout. Brief coconut truffle buttering seeps into tertiary marshmallow, cinnamon, Graham Cracker and hazelnut illusions as well as bourbon-brandy-burgundy wining. Finishes like a sophisticatedly liquified Mounds Bar.
CZIG MEISTER TOASTED COCONUT COFFEE STOUT
Dryly flattish dark-roast coffee nuttiness blitzkriegs sweet toasted coconut adjunct and hop-charred wood sear, leaving latent dark chocolate bittering in earthen soil.
CRICKET HILL MILKMAN OATMEAL STOUT
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, semi-sweet dark chocolate chalking encases maple molasses oats as briskly carbolic phenols add clean watered pep and dark-roast hops embitter brief dried coffee stead and mild cola nuttiness.
KANE SHIFTING SQUALL IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Taphouse 15, hybridized stout utilizes dry Golden Promise pale malts and IPA-like citric pine resin to perk up bittersweet dark cocoa residue in slick setting. Its Cascade-Bravo-Chinook hop conflux provides schwarzbier-like waver as Muscat wine esters and ashen cola nuttiness waver.
RUSTY RAIL CRUNCH BOT CARAMEL PEANUT IMPERIAL BROWN ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, lovely roasted caramel peanut influence quickly gains brown-sugared cinnamon toasting as vanilla, almond and buttered toffee illusions add further sweetness. Crunch ‘n Munch Gourmet Caramel Popcorn liquified to perfection.
TIMBER ALES VANILLA MARIS
Stupendously rich 2021 limited edition English-styled barleywine dupes dessert-like Imperial Stout styling with luxurious mocha richness deepening its chewy vanilla bean-aged lusciousness. Molasses-sugared bourbon vanilla creaming topped off by brown chocolate syrup as sweet-toothed fudged brownie, vanilla cafe latte, cherry chocolate cake, caramel latte, spiced toffee and brown raisin illusions prosper.
SCHILLING EARSTUS TRIPEL
On tap at Ambulance, dryer-than-usual Trappist-styled tripel brings peppery herbal-spiced Noble hop lemon zesting and mild orange-banana-pineapple tropicalia to candi-sugared crystal malting in winning fashion.
ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU CUVEE 800
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, 800th anniversary Belgian pale ale remains steadfastly subdued as bubble-gummed banana and clove sweetness pervades zesty lemon briskness and honeyed tea sugaring while polite chamomile-lemongrass-peppercorn stint beckons below.
ICARUS DRINKING FOR BREAKFAST BERLINER WEISSE
On tap at Taphouse 15, worthy breakfast cereal-styled Berliner Weisse conditioned on blood orange, toasted coconut and marshmallow works heavily wheated oats sugaring into its sweetly soured tropical fruiting. Tart blood orange salting overloads toasted coconut adjunct, relying instead upon ancillary lemon custard, key lime pie and tangy tangelo illusions.
SKYGAZER WATERCOLORS RASPBERRY BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE CREAMEE
On tap at Taphouse 15, unique bubble-bursting magenta crimsoned pastel hue matches idiosyncratic nature of fruitful hybridized berliner weiss. Pureed raspberry and blueberry adjuncts provide boisterously tart Pez-candied sweet ‘n souring over milk-sugared vanilla cheesecake creaminess laced with sharp lime salting. A delightfully chewy blueberry-caked raspberry cheesecake alternative.
EVIL TWIN NYC ET STAY HOME 17 SOUR IPA
On tap at Taphouse 15, stupendous purplish amber-hazed sour IPA packs marshmallow whipped creaming atop amplified pureed blueberry-raspberry tartness and sharp sour-candied lemon lime pucker. Heavy creamed vanilla sweetness fervently contrasts limey berried salinity of thick-bodied tartly fruited elixir.
