On tap at Taphouse 15, “decadent” amped up Gunner’s Daughter gains richer chocolate nougat center, deeper espresso-milked black coffee tones and subtler peanut buttering than original version. Beyond the nutty mocha insistence, caramelized banana, bourbon vanilla, hazelnut paste and Nutella illusions further sweeten impressive milk stout.
On tap at Taphouse 15, milk-sugared hazelnut chocolate sweetness and banana pureed creaming unite for rich confectionery stout. Chocolate-dipped banana dessert treat picks up hazelnut, walnut and buttered pecan snips.
On tap at Ambulance, peppermint bark-dried stout brings subtle menthol minting to bittersweet cocoa nibs chalking as teasing burgundy, black grape and oaken vanilla illusions flutter. A tad too dry and murkily flavored.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry mocha-bound full body brings black-malted coffee tones to dark-roast chocolate malting and nutty hop char above oats-toasted smoked wheat.
Creamy peanut buttering consumed viscous porter, retaining chocolate truffle, toasted almond and hazelnut chocolate bark illusions to contrast mild walnut-charred hop roast.
On tap at Ambulance, light-roast coffee splatters mild charred nuttiness, Baker’s chocolate dryness, raw molasses bittering and salty soy snip.
On tap at Plank Pizza, pink lace sits atop crimson body of sensational heavily creamed milkshake IPA. ‘Lush’ vanilla bean sugaring sops up tart strawberry adjunct as raspberry, boysenberry and blackberry respite deepens fruitful dessert. Thickly creamed marshmallow fluff sweetens oated wheat base. A heavenly strawberry milkshake.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry soft-toned NEIPA lets buttered grapefruit-orange salting and tropical pineapple-papaya-mango tang serenade sedate wildflower and apple blossom honeyed oated wheat base. Dank piney hop bittering stays distant.
On tap at Taphouse 15, ‘aggressively dry-hopped’ New England IPA collab with new Morris Plains brewery, Autodidact, puts lemony orange peeled peach and pineapple tang across light vegetal herbage and atop buttery pale malts. Lacks stylish oats-creamed sour yogurt dimension.
On tap at Ambulance, OK collab with Pittsburgh’s Dancing Gnome Beer. Lightly spiced lemon zesting surges as orange marmalade, candied pineapple and tart white grapefruit reach mild vanilla-creamed pale malt pasting.
Zestful 2022 redux brewed once a year to celebrate brewers’ anniversary is superb. Luxurious double dry-hopped NEIPA with sunny Mosaic-Citra-Vic Secret-hopped tropicalia allows juicy lemon-spiced orange peel tang and mildly embittered yellow grapefruit splash to pick up dank herbal resin as well as perfumed juniper bite above creamily oated wheat base. Versatile fruited profile gains ancillary salted mango, white peach, pineapple, mandarin orange and tangerine illusions.
On tap at Plank Pizza, dry San Diego-styled IPA utilizes Simcoe-Centennial-Columbus hop triage for musky lemon-soured grapefruit, pineapple and tangerine entry sidled by resinous piney dankness riding atop rye-like mineral graining.
