Unique pastry stout utilizes almond-pasted Thistle honey to enrich lactose dark cocoa creaminess and spiced vanilla resonance. Milk-sugared coffee, cappuccino and espresso tones fortify its honeyed chocolate intensity as tertiary caramel latte, toffee, black cherry, black grape, hazelnut, cola and almond illusions contrast underlying charcoal-seared hop astringency.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, creamy dark chocolate syrup drapes sweet pumpkin spicing as brown-sugared cinnamon, nutmeg and clove contrasts lightly hop-charred roasted pumpkin brining. Buttery cocoa powdering and slight coffee swipe consume rich pumpkin-spiced finish.
On tap at Ambulance, dry bruised black cherry tartness saddles nutty cocoa nibs base for pleasingly easygoing nitrogenated Black Forest-caked stout.
On tap at Taphouse 15, enhanced brown ale plies coffee, hazelnut and cinnamon to lightly maple molasses-sapped chocolate malting, gaining ancillary sarsaparilla, almond and bourbon vanilla splendor. Cinnamon-hazelnut coffee frontage holds steady.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, less quirkily distinct than advertised ‘coconut rum tiki cocktail,’ this Diamond Unicorn antecedent reveals a more conventional NEIPA prototype. Mellow yellow grapefruit bittering and milder papaya-mango-guava tropicalia quietly step forth above setback earthen pine tones.
On tap at Taphouse 15, fourth annual Breast Cancer Awareness month brew stays straightforward stylistically. ‘Pillowy soft’ hazy NEIPA brings juicy orange-grapefruit tang to grassy hop astringency above sugary caramel malts.
Maybe the most easygoing, soft-toned, dry-bodied NEIPA ever. Misty grapefruit-peeled mandarin orange and clementine sparkle, subtle lemon-limed pineapple zesting and floral-spiced caramel malting contrasted sparingly by teasingly bitter pine needling. On tap at Rebar – Lodi, pop art-inspired tropical zester stays briskly clean as lemony orange-tangerine tang receives dry hemp-like hop resin above papery pale malt spine.
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry hazy IPA coalesces citric white-wined Nelson Sauvin hops with earthen black tea-like Cryo Idaho 7 hops above heavily oated pale malts. Easygoing grapefruit-seeded orange rind and lemon pith bittering picks up tangy sentiment.
On tap at Ambulance, tartly tropical fruited medium body tempers Nelson Sauvin-hopped candied papaya, white grape, guava and pineapple thrust with Galaxy-hopped peach, orange and tangerine illusions as well as Enigma-hopped Pinto Gris tannins and green apple souring.
Glass-sugared grapefruit, orange and tangerine tang plus spicy pale malting pick up gluey cheap vodka grouting. Unspecific East meets West moderate-to-medium body.
On tap at Taphouse 15, vodka-licked lemon, grapefruit and orange zesting plus dank pine smidge ride atop pasty pale malt buttering. Tertiary papaya, pineapple and guava tropicalia adds vibrancy.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, crisply clean dry-bodied NEIPA brings vodka-nipped yellow grapefruit-embittered orange rind sedation to juniper-licked coniferous hop pining and mild dried grass astringency contrasting honeyed oats sugaring. Ancillary peach, pineapple and mango tropicalia add to plentiful fruitfulness.
