Outstandingly elegant full-bodied stout blended with Elijah Craig bourbon whiskey and conditioned on Ugandan, Mexican and Comoros vanilla beans retains velvety dark chocolate syruping. Bittersweet cocoa nibs influence enriches bourbon vanilla, brandy and burgundy serenity above honeyed Graham Cracker base. Subtle cafe latte, cinnamon coffee, gingerbread coffee, granola and grape nut pleasantries penetrate chocolate-vanilla surface. Highly recommended.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, variant Imperial Stout semi-successfully blends molasses rye, Madagascar vanilla bean and coconut into debittered and black chocolate malting. Mild milk-sugared coffee tones, caramelized Maris Otter malts and maple syruping add latent sweetness to expansive Imperial derivation.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, well regarded ‘signature dark ale’ from Cali stays creamily smooth as luscious cafe latte, milk-sugared coffee and cappuccino tones receive capacious vanilla-chocolate sweetness over molasses oats base. Vanilla coffee creaming picks up candied Milk Dud chocolate splurge as well as lesser glazed hazelnut, pecan pie, macadamia and candied walnut snips.
On tap at Ambulance, expansive dark-roast Cloud Cover coffee bittering and creamy dark chocolate resilience settle above treacly oatmeal base. Deep coffee resonance picks up charred walnut, bitter Brazil nut and sweet hazelnut illusions.
Semi-rich pastry stout goes for confectionery coconut-clustered dark chocolate candied Mounds Bar enticement. Expressive chocolate coconut splendor backed by vanilla-creamed marshmallow fluff, mild banana-chipped sugaring and dried cherry snip.
Superb richly creamed top-fermented English-styled barleywine (with plush ruby browned body and well hidden 12% ABV)) brings caramelized dried fruiting to dewy peat mossing and delicate floral spicing. Brown-sugared dried cherry, plum and raisin resonate alongside subtle burgundy, brandy and bourbon licks, picking up candied molasses sweetness. Possibly the best Polish beer marketed in US.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, relying less on typical citrus zesting and more on melon fruiting, perfumy orange-peeled grapefruit bittering of Eldorado-Simcoe-hopped NEIPA dangles honeydew, watermelon and pomelo tanginess plus salty passionfruit snag above dry pale malting.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, soft-toned, hazy golden glowed, double dry-hopped New England IPA plies orange-juiced yellow grapefruit and pineapple tanginess to salty guava-gooseberry souring and melon-y cantaloupe and clementine snips atop lightly creamed oats-flaked wheat base. Another worthy multi-hopped Veil IPA variant.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, brisk grapefruit-peeled orange and peachy pineapple juicing plus sour gooseberry, guava and green grape salting serenade sweet oated wheat vanilla creaming of busy double dry-hopped NEIPA utilizing tropical Galaxy varietal.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, zestful Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy and Nelson hops gather for tropical fruited medium body. Candied orange and pineapple tartness adds lollipop luster to yellow grapefruit bittering, salted mango tanginess and toasted coconut remnant as white peppered herbage seeps below next to sugared crystal malting.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, soft-toned New England-styled Imperial IPA crosses Citra-hopped lemony pineapple juicing, candied orange tartness and yellow grapefruit zesting with Motueka-hopped key lime souring and salty guava-mango zip as light herbal pining stays as subtle as its rolled oats base.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, fine Rocket Pop Ice knockoff lets limey cherry, blueberry and raspberry tartness reach sweet vanilla creaming as lightly acidic orange juicing gains salty respite. Based on a New England IPA recipe instead of a fruited sour, it’s another wonderful Abomination Smoothie! 