On tap at Ambulance, ‘traditional easy drinking’ dark lager retains mild toffee sugaring for dewy fungi soiling and toasted grain crisping.
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INTERBORO / OXBOW ALL CITY
On tap at Ambulance, simple golden-hued Vienna lager amiably aligns mellow chocolate roast to mild earthen fungi Noble hop musk and mild citrus spicing. 
BONN PLACE MOOEY ESB
On tap at Hop Daddy’s, dewy mineral grained fungi must and musky lemon skunking infiltrate biscuity cracker base of ‘ordinary’ bitter. A fine “sparkling pub-styled” Extra Special Bitter with lightly frothed head, steady moderate body and delectable restraint.
ANGRY DAD AMBER ALE
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, smooth off-dry flagship moderation saddles amber-grained caramel malt toasting with lemony orange-spiced spritz and gentle earthen wood hop astringency. A straightforward pale ale for bolder amber lager heads.
LOGSDON LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned wet grain musk spreads across herbal-hopped lemon spritz and light pale malt spicing of polite German pilsner. Relaxing light-bodied fare.
SLY FOX HELLES GOLDEN LAGER
On tap at Hop Daddy’s, easygoing pilsner-malted/ Saaz-Hallertau-hopped Bavarian-styled golden lager stays delicately dry. Yeasty sourdough breading gains skunky grain-hopped musk (and slight cabbage patch) and mild lemon-seeded grassy hop bittering above biscuity pale malt base.
VON TRAPP KELLER LAGER
Classic German lager retains robustness despite light body. Muskily cellared mineral graining, husked maize dryness and floral lemon twist glide over herbal hop astringency with dead-on precision.
ZHIGULEVSKOE LAGER
Standard Russian pale lager brings corn-sugared pastry malts to honeyed dough spine and fizzy hop phenolics like a cheap pale lager. Its sticky glutenous sweetness skirts being cloy – barely. Still, for caramelized suds, it’s OK.
DUGGES / STILLWATER COCOA CACAO
Joyously mocha-fudged collaboration with Stillwater embellishes ‘punchy’ dark-fruited cocoa nibs creaming and rich dark chocolatey molasses syruping with bitter wood-seared hop char. Thick cocoa entry embraces prune-stewed raisin and dark cherry illusions as well as burgundy-brandy wining, bourbon vanilla alacrity, mint chocolate chip snip and glazed hazelnut sweetness.
ALLAGASH MAP 40 BELGIAN STYLE STOUT
Utilizing Speckled Ax cold-brewed coffee roast to rise above moderately hop-charred nuttiness, dark cocoa powdering and Bakers chocolate bittering (while contrasting less effective candi-sugared Belgian yeast spicing), full-bodied stout loses some resilience by flattened java finish.
BACKLASH THE GREAT MOLASSES DISASTER IMPERIAL STOUT
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the disastrous Great Boston molasses flood, tarry black treacle bittering rides above wood-singed hop char. Bitter Blackstrap molasses entry gains fudgy black chocolate thickness and rich dark cocoa powdering. Recessive burnt caramel, seared walnut and gingerbread illusions drown in raw molasses sap.
CAPE MAY KING PORTER STOMP CHOCOLATE PORTER
Fudgy dark chocolate creaming picks up chalky cocoa bittering and latent coffee influx while bitter smoked hop char sinks in. Lactic soy-sauced souring contrasts burnt caramel sweetness beneath the surface.
