Easygoing Octoberfest-styled German lager plies modest cereal graining to leafy hop astringency, light floral spicing, dried fig snip and distant chestnut roast.
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FAT ORANGE CAT BAVARIAN KITTENS FEST BIER
Soft easygoer betters most marginal marzen/ Oktoberfests. Dewy leaf moisture receives modest caramelized Vienna malting (with cardboard-like graining) and mild orange spicing atop musty earthiness.
ATTIC WISTER WOODS VIENNA LAGER
Streamlined copper cleared moderation with wet leafy foliage and earthen moss contrasting dewy Vienna malts and oats-creamed flaked maize. Slight orange and chestnut whims beneath.
HI-WIRE CHURRO 10W-40 IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck. Sweet cinnamon-spiced, deep-fried pastry dough entry of fab Mexican Churro confection gains creamy vanilla chocolate resonance as well as nutmeg cookie, sugared coffee, candied toffee and spiced rum illusions in viscous mix. Perfect Christmastime dessert.
HI-WIRE COCONUT CHOCOLATE 10W-40 IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Growlers To Go – Duck, coconut-toasted brown chocolate sweetness scurries across creamily lactic cocoa nibs and vanilla adjuncts. Coconut shavings top Hershey’s chocolate, Mounds Bar, toffee pecan and burnt caramel richness for superb confectionery 10W-40 variant.
DEEP RIVER 4042 CHOCOLATE STOUT
Pastry-styled milk stout brewed with cocoa nibs, Madagascar vanilla beans and milk sugar draping coffee-roasted dark chocolate syruping over glazed hazelnut, burnt caramel and toffee sweetness contrasting less effective oily hop char.
CENTRAL WATERS SATIN SOLITUDE IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Plank Pizza, creamily eggshell-headed, mahogany-hued full body unites bittersweet dark chocolate, vanilla bean and cocoa nibs influence with tarry molasses-draped pumpernickel breading. Ancillary charred nuttiness counters latent caramelized coffee sugaring.
EDMUND’S OAST CORDIAL OFFERING: TAHITIAN VANILLA
Creamy vanilla-beaned cocoa nibs sweep to the syrupy black chocolatey front end of creamy stout variant as tarry molasses drapes latent burgundy-bourbon warmth, slight anise bent and ice cream sundae wisp.
CLOUDS CRIMEA RIVER BALTIC PORTER
Offbeat stylistically, lacking creamy mocha spunk as unexpected oily burnt coffee nuttiness picks up mossy earthiness for latent stewed prune and Blackstrap molasses in chocolate-bound lager yeast setting.
ATTIC COMMON NIGHTJAR 13
Excellent Czech dark lager utilizes six malts and lightly charred Saaz hops for muskily nutty mocha chalking. Mild walnut, Brazil nut and cola nut presence counters sweet chestnut-pecan-almond influence as ground coffee surge beckons at caramel-burnt dark chocolate base.
OMNIPOLLO BIANCA BLACKBERRY MAPLE PANCAKE LASSI GOSE
Opulent ‘Lassi gose’ variant drapes lactic powder sugared maple syrup atop briny lemon-limed blackberry puree tartness, gaining rock-salted blackcurrant-pomegranate splurge, oaken vanilla bittering, dried cherry-fig scrum, vinous green grape tannins and candied orange glaze. Almost keeps all flavonoids in balance.
ALPHABET CITY SUGAR PLUM FAIRY DARK ALE
‘Complex’ Belgian-styled dark ale brewed with plum puree and Belgian candi syrup provides richly bittersweet winter warmth. Trappist yeast fortifies caramelized dried fruiting as plum-pureed stewed prune, rum raisin and dark cherry pick up sappy molasses sweetener plus crisp tobacco roast to contrast desiccated fig and sour grape esters over Carapils-malted chocolate spicing. Wispy earthen gourd, burnt cedar and charcoal wisps waver. Robust full-bodied
