“Luxuriously silky” bourbon stout allows intense bourbon vanilla entry to pick up complementary brown chocolate-spiced caramel, molasses, coffee and cocoa tones. In the midst, gooey anise sinew coats the tongue while latent charred wood bittering contrasts vanilla-creamed mocha decadence and sweet bourbon sedation of lusty 10.8% ABV full body.
Basically, fabulous Guinness Export Stout sold initially only to the Belgian market. Smoothly creamed molasses-sapped dark chocolate milking gains hickory-smoked cedar sear over light hop-charred barley roast. Bittersweet chocolate malting further enhanced by vanilla bean, coffee, anise, blackcurrant and rum raisin illusions. A must have.
On tap at Ambulance, hybridized black-bodied stout brings juicy orange tang and earthen truffle nuttiness to reclining black chocolate fudging. Minor fungi must, teasing cocoa powdering and soy-sauced splurge lean towards the dry side. Orange puree, orange marmalade and orange liqueur illusions relegate chocolate finish.
On tap at Ambulance, Andean Brewing (known for its Kuka line) crafts Naptime’s durable Imperial Stout circa 2018. Creamy cocoa-powdered dark chocolate malting picks up sugary molasses tone to contrast ashen nuttiness and mild coffee snip as mild dark-roasted hop bittering deepens its resilience.
Extremely popular Dead Guy Helles Bock soaked in Dead Guy Whiskey Barrels retains soft-toned oaken vanilla buttering, creamy sugared malting and tangy orange spicing. Dry rye whiskey sedation soaks into brown-sugared grain malting as well as caramel, toffee, almond and coconut undertones.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, creamy cold-brewed coffee entry gains black chocolate roast and mild dark-roast hop char for smoothly mocha-bound medium body.
On tap at Ambulance, eccentric French farmhouse ale with foraged chanterelle mushrooms and toasted maple bark fermented with mixed yeast cultures and aged in red wine barrels ‘yields apricot flavor’ over earthen truffle mustiness and dank cellar musk. Honeyed herbal spicing and vermouth-like alcohol whir sweeten the back end.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, powdered sugar accents cinnamon-spiced French Toast entry as sharp hop astringency contrasts subtle maple, nutmeg and vanilla adjuncts of 9% ABV medium body. Smoked cinnamon finish gets intense.
There’s simply not enough peaty beechwood smoke, meat-charred nuttiness or campfire embers to satisfy any true German rauchbier fanatic. Band-aid-like beechwood sear stays tepid as misplaced lemon spritz and pasty pale malting deplete smoky maple bacon wisp.
On tap at Ambulance, relegated dry hop pungency plied to easygoing orange, pineapple, grapefruit and mango tang as well as zesty lemon zip above lightly creamed honeyed pale malts. Mainstream likability.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, frontloaded tannic oaken leathering enhances sour tangerine tartness above compost-wafted barnyard acridity. Moderate lemony orange acidity gains wispy pineapple, peach and grapefruit tease.
On tap at Ambulance, worthy collaboration with Long Island’s Barrier Brewing (described as ‘tropical citrus bomb’) brings bitter orange rind, sour grapefruit pith, zesty lemon licks and sweet pineapple-mango-peach illusions to musky compost dankness, mild piney hop dryness and rustic herbal notions above dry pale malting.
