On tap at Taverna Rossa, middling wheat ale drips sweet and sour honey adjunct over delicate grassy-hopped yellow fruiting and cream ale-like corn grits(?). Mild brown tea-like musk and raw-grained malt dryness relegated.
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ARMADILLO BRUNCH MONEY
On tap at Taverna Rossa, respectable stout-inspired golden ale succulently combines creamed coffee capaciousness with sweet maple-sugared vanilla and bittersweet black chocolate malting for rich pancake-battered brunch time dessert. Ancillary toasted coconut illusions waver.
ARMADILLO HONEY PLEASE
On tap at Taverna Rossa, easygoing pale body utilizes bittersweet wildflower honey, subtle cinnamon-sugared mesquite beans and mild hop bitterness to engage lagered yeast. Blood orange tartness and oaken vanilla smidge backup.
SAINT ARNOLD 5 O’CLOCK PILSNER
On tap at Flying Saucer – Garland, sessionable Saaz-hopped Czech-styled pilsner brings musty maize-dried earthiness, muskily perfumed floral dankness and grassy lupulin oiling to doughy biscuit base, leaving zesty lemon spritz dancing on the tongue.
903 CERVEZA POR FAVOR
Crisply clean Mexican-styled light lager utilizes maize-flaked lager yeast and dry cereal graining to provide easygoing South of the Border haven. Mildly hop-embittered lemon lime spritz provides carbolic fizzing.
BRECKENRIDGE SNOW GLARE HOPPY WHEAT
On tap at Biggie’s, lush yellow grapefruit tang embittered above malted wheat sugaring. Floral citrus-spiced sweetness and candied orange-tangerine-pineapple conflux sour lemon-lime licks for tropical medium-bodied wheat ale. As crisply refreshing as its label.
EQUILIBRIUM GENERAL RELATIVITY STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, milky chocolate syruping and coffee-sugared moderation pick up nutty hop-charred bittering over serene oats malting. Mild molasses-smoked cocoa smidge and tardy burgundy, brandy, blackberry, black cherry and anise illusions play possum.
STONE TOTALITARIAN IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT
Invigorating jet black full body veers from molasses-licked brown chocolate roast to bitter oak-charred hop sear. Syrupy chocolate caked midst picks up ancillary cocoa nibs, vanilla, coffee, black licorice and cinnamon bun illusions. Boldly righteous.
TWO ROADS IGOR’S DREAM RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT – 2018
On tap at Growler & Gill, serene oak-aged whiskey tone guides treacly rye adjunct and rich dark chocolate malting above mild soy-sauced earthen peat scorch. Sweet vanilla, toffee, caramel, cocoa, coconut and black cherry illusions saddle cookie-like chocolate rye finish.
PIPEWORKS / INTERBORO TONIGHT AT NOON RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, robust (10% ABV) Chicago-Brooklyn collaboration loads peppery mocha richness atop treacly caramel nuttiness. Dark chocolate creaminess gains mild coffee roast and nascent cola, burgundy and bourbon illusions.
URBAN FAMILY TWILIGHT STONE FRUITED PORTER WITH PLUMS
Noirish English-styled porter fuses dried plum essence onto ashen charcoal-like hops and musty mocha malts. Musky cellar earthiness crowds tart plum frontage as molded fig, bittersweet prune, dry burgundy, oaken cherry and sour grape illusions relegate Baker’s chocolate, Blackstrap molasses, cocoa powder and day-old coffee spunk.
DARK CITY URBAN DECAY IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Mohawk House, sweet-spiced brown chocolate roast gains sweet toffee, vanilla and pecan illusions for bold brown body (with creamy tan-headed froth). Piquant chocolate truffle resilience works in brown-sugared cumin, cinnamon and nutmeg smidge to contrast lightly lingered Chinook hop astringency. (This version was not Cabernet barreled as label below shows).
