Marvelous Drayman’s Porter spinoff utilizing Dean’s Beans burrows medium roast chicory coffee indulgence thru caramel-burnt dark chocolate, blackened nut char and tarry Blackstrap molasses residue. Try in lieu of black coffee in bed. Recommended.
Despite milk-sugared maple syruping and chocolate-chipped cocoa, graham cracker, and marshmallow adjuncts, Bernie Sanders sendoff wreaked by weedy prune-soured cellar musk. Day-old coffee remnant and bitter anisette smidge don’t help.
Chai-spiced cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and clove illusions tingle thru ‘creamy latte’ midst (with a hint of anise). Dry chocolate roast persists.
Contrasting toasted pumpkin seed salting and musty orange oiling against sweet cinnamon-nutmeg spiced pumpkin pie crust, briny gourd-ridden autumnal moderation lets leafy hop astringency seep into corn-sugared Vienna malt grist.
Compact chestnut brown porter closer to a nut brown ale as its charred walnut bittering and ashen hop sear counter sweet almond-chestnut subtleties in wavering chocolate-roasted caramel setting.
Peaty spelt wheat redirects coffee-roasted black chocolate bittering a tad as cedar-smoked molasses, glazed pecan, hazelnut cake and dark cherry illusions drift thru dry anise-spiced midst. At the smoked mocha finish lies brown buttered spelt chocolate cookie remnant.
Mellow cocoa nibs bank nutty caramel roast and muted dark fruiting above bread-crusted chocolate oats base.
Elegant 15.1% abv barleywine aged in cognac and bourbon barrels given brown-sugared British pale and crystal malting plus figgy raisin-prune dried fruiting and spunky whiskeyed cherry glaze over bittersweet dark cocoa base. Spirited dry burgundy, sweet sherry and blackberry brandy serenity daubs evolving bourbon vanilla-spiced warmth. Spectral array of Anisette liqueur, candied cherry, burnt molasses and Graham Cracker illusions indulge the busy backend of luscious nightcap.
Dry sour saison (a funky earthen Belgian farmhouse ale) pleats lemony green grape esters to light white wining showcasing Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigios splendor above acidulated wheat base. Distant white peach, prickly pear and sharp cider illusions flutter.
Aged on tart raspberry, plum and Flanders Red-like oaken cherry souring, brettanomyces yeast-induced red ale picks up vinous lemon-juiced green grape tannins over acidulated raw wheat. Distant blackberry, cranberry and pomegranate snips penetrate musty dried fruited surface.
Lightly marshmallow-fluffed vanilla creaming caresses strawberry tartness and banana sweetness as mouth puckering orange concentrated lemon juicing ascends thru lactic strawberry-banana Smoothie. Only its pencil shavings-like graphite tinge works against the finishing berried banana cheesecake richness.
Assorted berry yogurt entry of puckered fruited sour regales loud blackberry-blueberry tartness and wispy strawberry-huckleberry-elderberry reprieve in salty acidulated wheat setting. Soothing blackcurrant tang stays recessive.
