Creamy Dunkin Donuts spinoff re-creates chocolate-glazed donut with black coffee. Black-malted dark roast coffee permanence gains vanilla bean-embittered hop char as well as chalky cocoa powdering. Mild cola, walnut and hazelnut illusions reinforce rich mocha mass.
Richly creamed chocolate peanut butter porter gets infused with espresso beans. Dark-roast coffee tones pick up smoky cocoa, black chocolate and vanilla hints while hazelnut, macadamia and cola nuttiness reinforce peanut-buttered hop oiling above soily earthiness. By the finish, its milky espresso sentiment clears the way.
Mild dark-roast chocolate milking gains smooth coffee tones above blackened hop char for fine dry porter. In the distance, dark cocoa bittering counters caramel-burnt toffee sweetness.
Fine English-styled brown ale lathered in maple syrup retains crisp autumnal hop foliage, subtle chestnut sweetness and light vanilla spicing. In the backdrop, bittersweet wattle-seeded chocolate and cocoa illusions receive brittle tobacco roast.
Sessionable English-styled brown ale stays mild as bittersweet cocoa-dried chocolate chalking slithers lightly alongside desiccated dried fruiting and ashen nutty respite. Walnut-seared hazelnut, chestnut and grape nut illusions scorched by coarse earthen hops to contrast muskily caramelized chocolate malting. An efficient English-styled pub ale for the proletariat.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, superb Belgian candi-sugared strong ale (well hidden 10% ABV) retains vanilla-creamed fruitfulness and funky herbal bittering. Honeyed peach, fig and raisin luster gains rummy banana daiquiri sweetness along with dried cherry, red grape, orange marmalade, honeydew and white-peppered Chardonnay illusions. A fruitily caramelized tripel with chewy viscosity and whiskey-stained alcohol finish that’s perfect as a rich dessert treat.
Dubiously “sophisticated” limited edition ’18 Grand Cru stays slick, bordering on cloy as its overripe peach syruping gains 12% ABV medicinal acridity. Ancillary prune-stewed apricot, fig and raisin illusions deepen alcohol-soaked pureed peach overtones. Strictly for Peach Madiera fans.
Dry pumpkin ale brings earthen gourd/ squash influence to sharp ginger herbage and muted cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice seasoning. Underwhelming 2018 autumnal release.
Creamy café-styled New England IPA caresses juicy Citra-hopped fruitiness with piquant vanilla beaned sweetness. Polite grapefruit-embittered orange peel tang shines brightly above bready pale malt base. Orange-sugared vanilla creaming recalls a Creamsickle. Mild Banana’s Foster, tangerine and peach illusions show up at the vibrant citrus finish.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, inscrutable anti-autumnal golden-hazed India Pale Ale boasts no seasonal pumpkin spicing but retains soured tropical fruiting and fungi-shadowed cucumber watering. Despite advertised blackberry boysenberry and grape influence, tartly soured mango-guava-pineapple illusions, lemon-rotted lime zest and wispy Sauvignon wining gain traction over light piney hop dankness. A weirdly eccentric hybridized IPA sour ale fans may grasp.
Crisply brisk East Coast-styled IPA lets sharp hop-spiced citrus zest spread across light pine resin and wispy floral herbage. Juicy grapefruit, orange and pineapple tang replete with ancillary mango, peach, tangerine and melon illusions above dainty caramelized oats.
Tart raspberry adjunct given sharp orange-peeled grapefruit pith bittering and piney hop resin (indicative of an India Pale Ale). At the finish, mild strawberry rhubarb and berry tea illusions graft its polite raspberry piquancy.
