Terrific mocha-leaning Cascadian dark ale with black grape intensity and cookie dough thickness discretely enriching lactic full body. Resinous roasted hop char deepens creamy chocolate malting and dry coffee oiling. Mint-y anise slipstream and nutty cola recess firm up backend.
Expressive entourage of juicy tropical fruits befits medium-to-full-bodied West Coast IPA. Not as briskly conformist as most stylish competitors, its softened hop bittering never undoes grapefruit-peeled pineapple, peach, cherry and quince medley or ascending floral potpourri. Chewy caramel malt backbone heightens bright fruitiness. Slight alcohol burn at sharp citric finish lingers.
Well-defined, well-balanced ESB firmly captures authentic English pale ale styling. Sugar-spiced fig regales rye wheat breading and capacious nuttiness to earthen peat bottom. Honeyed tea, raisin bread, and herbal leafy foliage provide ancillary niceties. But musty metallic tinning and sharp carbolic prickle agitate up-front profile.
Uproarious dark-roasted coffee bean theme heightened by tar-like hop-charred bittering and walnut-seared cola nuttiness. Milk-creamed espresso and vanilla creaminess add ancillary relief above earthen dewiness. But wait for lactic full body to settle in glass or brusque carbolic fizz will crowd out flavoring.
On tap at Barcade, enjoyable 14th anniversary wheat wine (aged two years) retains milder sedation than richer barleywine styling, but may lack subtle complexities. Caramelized butterscotch-honeyed wheat malting tapers off as serene grape-wined seduction makes presence felt. Candied apple, banana bubblegum, orange marmalade, red cherry, pineapple, mango and grapefruit illusions flutter across acutely astringent alcohol burn.
On tap at Barcade, rich obsidian-hued English-style milk stout retains lactic brown chocolate sweetness, sappy molasses sugaring and creamy vanilla buttering. Barley-roasted oats toasting picks up ancillary cola, hazelnut and walnut char.
Floundering soft-textured lactic porter searching for clear identity. Smoked caramel malting and Baker’s chocolate chalkiness fade into light cola-fizzed nuttiness, picking up wavered black cherry nuance and sweet vanilla subtlety. Minor molasses breading needs deeper thrust.
On tap at Barcade, approachable American brown ale brings soft Vienna-malted sweetness to oatmeal-toasted hop char. Dry ashen nuttiness shelters cocoa-buttered dark chocolate midst and oily coffee drift. Hazelnut, walnut, praline and pecan illusions reinforce lactic medium body.
Sultry fruit ale too washed-out and unassertive. Easygoing dessert treat combines flittering banana-skinned plantain placidity, squelched banana-leafed tranquility and pureed banana cream-pied ambiguity above mild peppery hop astringency. Advertised sultana (golden raisin) influence is a non-factor. Under-whelming banana liqueur nip and light vanilla sweetness quashed by soapy spell.
Approachable moderate-bodied session ale. Light caramelized creaming and doughy baked breading contrast subtly perfumed grassy hop bittering. Lemony grapefruit splurge picks up mild herbal tea nuance above wispy ethanol pungency, finishing with a zesty citric-spiced zip.
Chewy Belgo-American India Pale Ale retains musty Belgian yeast funk, lactic brown chocolate creaminess and black-peppered dried fruiting. Prune, raisin and fig illusions thicken multi-grain breading above reedy hop resin. A hint of bourbon and a snip of crème de cocoa found at coarsened chocolate-spiced finish.
Sessionable prune-browned tan-headed medium body layers sour soy-sauced cocoa powdering and sedate roasted hop bittering above creamy brown chocolate sugaring. Ashen walnut char, toasted pumpernickel breading and latent hickory nuances fill the dewy earthen gaps.