On tap at Taphouse 15, robust autumnal-spiced Imperial Stout brewed with pumpkins and conditioned on cinnamon and nutmeg plies vanilla beaned dark chocolate bittering to sugared butternut squash and yam sweetness, picking up mild whiskeyed cherry and dry bourbon snips. Richly creamed dark chocolate syruping creates a pudding skin layer, ultimately outdoing autumnal vanilla spicing as mild shaved coconut and maple oats illusions flutter.
Stylishly offbeat, wispily barrel aged Imperial Stout stays dry, relinquishing any possible sweetness to Bakers chocolate-parched raw molasses and pine tar bittering. Dried anise surge placates tertiary chewing tobacco, charred hickory, vinified burgundy, dark espresso and cola nut illusions.
Bittersweet maple-smoked dark chocolate and sour coffee oiling coalesce for peaty stout. Roasted chocolate continuance gains earthy peat dewiness.
On tap at Taphouse 15, fine limited edition autumnal barleywine (vintage 2015) retains honeyed caramel toasting, pasty brown chocolate battering and candied toffee spicing above cardboard-bound rye bottom, picking up stiff dry bourbon influence at dewy finish.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, dry bourbon influence soaks up oaken vanilla tannins and dark chocolate richness as charred hop bittering lingers moderately. Lovely black cherry, mudcake and hazelnut-glazed mousse cake illusions drape the silken bourbonized mocha finish.
On tap at Taphouse 15, despite uniting oaken Tahitian vanilla, toasted coconut and peaty coffee with roasted hazelnut, pecan, almond, pistachio and macadamia adjuncts plus supplemental marshmallow and cinnamon wisps, dry English-styled (?) barleywine (6.9% ABV) may be ‘session’able, but its cluttered ingredients stay anonymous, drowned-out and insufficient.
Coffee-stained dark chocolate syruping drapes brown-sugared candied yam sweetness hidden behind hop-charred nutty bitterness. Wintry cinnamon-nutmeg coalition and fern-like tannins stay setback alongside burnt marshmallow adjunct of semi-rich holiday porter with scripted Have The Yams Stopped Screaming moniker.
Dry ginger minting and cold-brewed coffee tones outdo pumpkin pie spicing as dark chocolate bittering splatters milk-steamed espresso finish. Overall pumpkin latte spicing picks up wintry cinnamon-barked nutmeg, cumin and allspice seasoning as well as fern-like nuttiness and earthen gourd mildness.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, dry English porter retains coffee-stained dark chocolate roast infiltrated by wood-seared hop char, raw molasses bittering, mild walnut tannins and sour soy milking. At the finish, caramel-burnt mocha malting adds some contrastive sweetness.
On tap at Ambulance, soft-tongued beige yellowed Imperial IPA plies lemony mandarin orange zesting and mild guava-mango souring to compost-wafted herbal hop astringency in sessionable manner. Not sure of its overall taste profile.
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, mild crushed uziza peppering provides light burn to variant pale ale. Tempered by its lively lemon twist and steady cologne mist, sedate green and red pepper prod retains slightly sweet sway. Soothingly interesting pepper-plied moderation.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, ‘easy drinking’ generically named IPA retains dry nature as floral perfumed spicing tags lemony grapefruit tang. Peppery hop herbage sails beneath the tropical fruiting alongside desiccated pale malts.