On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, luscious ‘classic campfire treat’ plugs bourbon vanilla sweetness into fudgy melted chocolate creaminess and marshmallow-toasted Graham Cracker sugaring. Sweet-toothed creme brulee, gingerbread cookie, brown-sugared cinnamon and pancaked maple syrup auxiliary drapes pastry dough-floured mocha malting.
On tap at Taphouse 15, Tiramisu-inspired stout combines richly bittersweet espresso-dried cocoa powdering with confectionery sponge-caked powdered sugaring of Ladyfinger biscuit, gaining chocolatey cappuccino sweetness, molasses cookie sugaring, vanilla custard egging and vanilla-creamed banana pudding daub. A fine digestif.
Fulsome rum and whiskey barreled stout with coffee and cacao nibs retains rich chocolate bourbon sweetness to contrast dry burgundy and port wining. Rummy molasses continuance gains toasted coconut, glazed pecan, hazelnut paste, gingerbread, toffee and anise illusions as well as dried fruited raisin, stewed prune and dark cherry daubs plus dainty floral wisps. Complex slow sipping nightcap.
On tap at Taphouse 15. Inspired by peanut butter and fluff sandwich, dry stout lets milk sugared peanut butter and marshmallow adjuncts get swallowed up by cocoa-dried coffee and anisette tones while brief chocolate mint stint wavers.
On tap at Cloverleaf, sweetish whipped coffee creaming contrasts debittered black malt dryness as oats-honeyed Maris Otter and Vienna malting surfaces alongside molasses-caked vanilla respite.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dry Irish stout given smooth nitrogenated creaming and nutty buckwheat influence in flattish mineral grain setting. Gentle coffee-roasted dark chocolate bittering buttresses tidy walnut, cola nut, cashew and hazelnut whims. A tad underwhelmingly unassuming.
Despite new label, ’22 version lacks creamy coffee richness and distinctiveness of earlier winter-released predecessors. French roast coffee tones pile on a tad too much acidity for sharp walnut-cola sear.
Offbeat stout pleats Bakers chocolate dryness into ‘candied orange peel’ tartness and mild piney hop resin as coconut milked souring, ashen cola-walnut scant and raw molasses bittering pick up weedy residue. Introducing Centennial and Sabro hops to a murky stout undermines its mocha appeal.
On tap at Taphouse 15, decadent porter conditioned on Ugandan and Haitian cocoa nibs and roasted hazelnuts gains brown-sugared vanilla sweetness for aggressive full-bodied blend. Creamy mocha latte continuance picks up mild dark cherry snips.
On tap at Cloverleaf, casual coffee-roasted dark chocolate entry picks up tobacco-stained hop char, raw molasses bittering and earthen walnut sear, leaving understated granola-candied Trail Mix on the backend.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dark-roasted cocoa powdered coffee grounds and slightly viscous Blackstrap molasses-embittered hop oils reach burnt pumpernickel base. Anyone for charcoal charred black onyx cocoa?
Lightly creamed milk sugaring coats reclining carrot cake battering as moderate cinnamon-spiced butternut, chestnut and almond triage receives ascending ginger minting. But its metallic hop alkalinity prohibits niftily unconventional carrot dessert.
