On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, serene dark-roast coffee integrates bittersweet black chocolate malting with burnt nuttiness over tar-like hop resin.
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FREE WILL SPECIAL COOKIE
On tap at Cooper’s Seafood, inspired by popular Speculoos cookie, vibrant Imperial English brown ale evenly spreads cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg spicing across vanilla-creamed gingerbread cookie sweetness and brown-sugared caramel malting to its oats-honeyed Graham Cracker spine. A buttery nut cookie alternative.
BURIAL BOLO COCONUT BROWN
On tap at Ambulance, veritable “granola-like” medium body features toasted coconut adjunct and fudgy mocha-spiced nuttiness above brown-sugared barley oats. Lightly creamed vanilla-sweetened cinnamon and cumin seasoning as well as latent almond-walnut-cola conflux tease dark-roast chocolate and coffee overtones as well as fading coconut sweetness and candied toffee reminder. In the can, subdued toasted coconut entry overcome by creamy black chocolate roast as mild hop-charred nuttiness contrasts ancillary vanilla, oatmeal cookie and cocoa sweetness.
CIGAR CITY MADURO BROWN ALE – NITRO
On tap at Cooper’s Seafood, smoothly watered nitro version of world-class English-style brown ale hits the tongue like a fudged brownie, gaining gentle vanilla creaming over light hop toasting. Original version’s stove-burnt coffee tones fade below mellowing nutty brown chocolate finish.
MAGNIFY UNCHARTED TERRITORY : BALTIC PORTER
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, slight oak char affects dark-roast coffee frontage, cocoa nibs-influenced dark chocolate syruping and bitter tobacco-chawed hop resin of crisply clean-watered porter. Beneath the bittersweet mocha surface, charred walnut respite contrasts tangy black cherry, fig and blackberry spell.
FORGOTTEN BOARDWALK TIGHT ROPE WALKER BALTIC PORTER
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, nutty coffee-burnt Bakers chocolate bittering overwhelms dried-fruited blackberry, black cherry and raspberry tartness and light anise spicing above crisp-watered caramel-burnt black malt base.
GREAT DIVIDE BARREL AGED HIBERNATION ALE
On tap at Ambulance, “luscious” English-styled winter ale receives barrel-aged Stranahan’s Colorado whiskey adjunct to sedate original Hibernation’s orange, cherry and peach fruiting as well as soured fig-date smidge. Rising out of the rum-spiced whiskey interior are brown chocolate, sugared coffee, toasted coconut, vanilla bean, molasses and marshmallow illusions.
MAGNIFY SMELL YA LATER
On tap at Poor Henry’s, peculiar 9.5% ABV collaboration with New York’s Finback brings raw-honeyed plastique nature to mild wood-dried hop bittering and dank hemp oiling, leaving orange-peeled grapefruit and pineapple tang in its wake.
EVIL TWIN NO MORE BRUNCH
On tap at Poor Henry’s, easygoing moderation lets Nelson Sauvin hop acidity bring subtle grapefruit, orange, gooseberry and passionfruit tropicalia to the fore, becoming slightly astringent by the citric-soured finish.
THREE 3’S BUGG JUICE IPA
On tap at Poor Henry’s, “juicy” India Pale Ale brings tangy mango-papaya-grapefruit-orange tropicalia to sour lemon lime luster and resinous piney hop bittering above fennel-tinged pale malt base.
VICTORY VITAL IPA
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Hoboken, easygoing moderate-to-medium body brings lemony orange-pineapple-grapefruit tang to mildly pungent floral-herbed piney hop bittering. Pleasant sugar-spiced citrus continuance and dainty carapils malting will please pale ale enthusiasts.
PIZZA BOY THE STRANGER IPA
On tap at Ambulance, well-integrated and refreshingly clean India Pale Ale plies off-dry Citra and Centennial piney hop bittering to juicy orange, grapefruit, pineapple and mango tang. Tropical splendor underlined by crisp celery watering.