On tap at Julian’s Restaurant, fabulous milk stout, aged to perfection in muscatel barrels, seamlessly blends chocolate with red wine. Creamy molasses-sapped black chocolate overture enriches sweet dessert-wined muscat grape segue. Plum-sugared black grape, green raisin, blueberry and sherry undertones reinforced by soy-milked hop char. Subtle mocha illusions of chocolate cake, cocoa and vanilla waver beneath.
Subtle rust-hued English-styled barleywine brewed with chestnut honey and orange zest (and packaged in fancy carafe glassware) will please fans of Innis & Gunn’s mellow Scotch-barreled eccentricities. Delicate rauchbier-like kiln-smoked peat malts serenade cedar-chipped pecan, almond and rum raisin illusions. Dry tobacco-leafed crisping affects ancillary almondine, armagnac, almond biscotti and marzipan pleasantries. Advertised orange zest adjunct seems nominal. Soft-toned whiskeyed caramel finish melts on tongue.
Highly expressive peach-juiced Belgian ale (a.k.a. Bush Peche Mel) mixes Bush Amber Ale with brewers’ peach lambic. Enthralling candied peach tartness lingers above sugary malted wheat sweetness. Ancillary tangerine, necatarine, apricot, sugarplum and yellow grape illusions invigorate peachy overtones alongside less pronounced papaya-mango-pineapple tropicalia. Syrupy peach schnapps boozing and peppery peach lambic souring regale the fruitful finish.
Caustic hybridized black lager (a.k.a. schwarzbier) liberally douses hop-charred black chocolate malts atop rauchbier-like kiln-smoked beechwood sear. Hickory-singed molasses sinew, stove-burnt coffee acridity and tertiary vanilla bean bittering deepen pungent mocha prominence to contrast sullen dried fruiting.
Instead of relying strictly upon stylistic leafy autumnal foliage and mild dried fruiting, bright citric spree perks up spunky medium-bodied seasonal. Clementine, navel orange, honeyed lemon and yellow grapefruit illusions elevate sweet tea scamper. Light maple sugaring coats soft maize-parched, millet-grained wheat spine.
Heavily herbaceous golden-hazed pale ale brings sunny lemon spritz and musty fungi aromatics to peppery Belgian yeast. Lemongrass, pink peppercorn, sage, thyme and sandalwood illusions influence alfalfa-grassed citric rot. Fern, pine nut and evergreen undertones add rusticity to unique herbal splendor.
Vaguely categorizable berry-infused medium-bodied amber ale stays crisply carbolic as unobtrusive berry notions flutter by. Tart raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, boysenberry, blackberry and gooseberry fruiting fades into sharp hop-oiled graininess. Rotted lemon, dried orange and yellow grape undertones wither.
Totally awesome full-bodied ‘milk stout’ definitely gets heart thumpin’ with freshly-roasted black coffee pungency contrasting creamy cappuccino-sugared froth, rich cocoa-nibbed black chocolate stead and penetrative vanilla bean thrust. Though completely robust, soft-watered flow tempers mighty mocha muscle.
Judicious chocolate-covered raisin sweetness enriches lusty stewed prune, sugared fig and bruised cherry adjuncts. Maple-sugared molasses, caramel, toffee, coconut and vanilla illusions contrast aggressive hop spicing. Sweeping bourbon boozing infiltrates Belgian chocolate-spiced finish.
Dignified bourbon-barreled Imperial Stout brings whiskeyed chocolate spicing to rich molasses-sapped rye wheat base. Oaken vanilla mellowing deepens sweet bourbon luster. Brown-sugared pecan, hazelnut and praline undertones make small impact. Tertiary dark cherry, anise, coffee and cocoa illusions activate the backend.
Respectable copper-hazed full body brings musty fungi-like Belgian yeast peppering to lemon-bruised orange rot souring, contrasting sugar-spiced caramel malting and tingly brandy-wined sweetness. Pungent 9.8% alcohol musk never overrides ancillary citric-candied banana, cantaloupe, melon, pineapple, pear and peach fruiting.
Quirkily herbaceous sour-fruited saison places white-peppered perfume hops and sour lemony orange respite above oats-sweetened torrified wheat spine. Mild acetone lacquering unexpectedly affects wispy banana-clove sweetness and vapid apple-peach conflux. Grainy barnyard acridity seals off-dry template.