Decadent dessert layers fudgy dark chocolate richness with bitter cocoa nibs and tart red cherry tartness, leaving creamy mocha resonance upon dry wood-burnt dark roast hop char. Bulky chocolate cherry cake finish picks up red grape tannins, red raspberry rasp and grenadine syruping plus mild chocolate donut, honeyed baclava, butterscotch vanilla, molasses cookie and hazelnut coffee illusions. Bold, luxurious confectionery nightcap (with unassuming 9.4% ABV).
Bold milk stout aged on Kentucky bourbon and conditioned on ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, honey and coffee lacks creaminess but promotes spirits as dry bourbon-burgundy wining and whiskeyed chocolate lead the way for boozy Christmastime celebrator. Its dry side adds oaken vanilla, Bakers chocolate and coconut milk to contrast subsidiary maple syrupy gingerbread sweetness, but the Brazilian and Sumatran coffee influence stays neutral.
Combining renowned brewers’ Parabola and Velvet Merkin, excellent S’mores-inspired stout aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels relies on vanilla bean richness, cocoa nibs fudging and brown-sugared cinnamon sticks to awaken rummy marshmallow-centered Graham Cracker base. Rich dark chocolate syruping drapes oncoming hazelnut brownie, biscotti anisette, dark cherry and dried fig illusions. Another fascinating nightcap by FW.
Decadent rum barrel aged variant of popular stout lets syrupy cane-sugared rum spicing reign upon toasted coconut adjunct and vanilla-daubed cocoa creaminess enriched and contrasted by dark-roast hop char. Like a coconut-flavored white rum (or Malibu liqueur) spread atop a Graham Cracker.
Rich whiskey barrel aged dessert treat loads capacious blueberry pie sweetness upon fudgy chocolate milkshake creaminess and gingerbread respite. Syrupy blueberry continuance picks up scattered dark cherry, raspberry, boysenberry, prune and plum illusions as well as wintry nutmeg spicing plus whiskey-backed bourbon and burgundy sedation.
Velvety limited edition (2025) 10% ABV Imperial Stout lodges fudgy dark chocolate next to bittersweet cocoa nibs and oaken vanilla given dewy wood-seared peat mossing. A slither of Angel Food Cake and snips of dried fruit waver.
Conditioned on Congolese coffee from Barrister Coffeehouse, its smoky dark chocolate nuttiness and dark-roast-hopped oats char secure the black peppered coffee beaning. Coffee cola, burnt coffee and maple molasses illusions persist.
Mellow nut-charred medium roast coffee overtones and slight black chocolate bittering unite for modest dry Irish stout. Dark-roast hop char pervades lightly creamed mocha insistence.
Blending Troegs’ Grand Cacao Chocolate Stout with Mad Elf’s spiced-up Belgian strong ale, boozy (8.7% ABV) Christmastime celebrator links creamy chocolate brownie fudging to outweighed pureed cherry bruise. Along the way, chewy toffee sweetness gains sturdy date-fig-raisin conflux, latent cola-hazelnut-macadamia splurge, holiday mulling spiciness and roasted coffee perk before finishing like a chocolate cherry cordial.
Combining Mad Elf’s wildflower honeyed cherry splurge with Dreamweaver Wheat Ale’s white-peppered banana and clove sweetness, durable blended Christmastime celebrator utilizes funky cellared herb-spiced Belgian yeast. Sweet-tart cherry bruise rides atop sugary wheat base, picking up mild red apple riffs in boozy vodka-like whir.
Complex Estonian Baltic Porter (11% ABV) utilizes bison grass to add herbaceous oaken vanilla aspect to whiskeyed dark chocolate syrup coating wood-smoked cinnamon coffee, casual dried fruiting (prune-plum-blackberry) and black licorice. Dark-roast hop char ascends to contrast honeyed Graham Cracker bottom.
Sweet-tart raspberry puree crowds bourbon vanilla-daubed cocoa nibs given light chili pepper heat. Syrupy raspberry continuance joined by apple-juiced black cherry, blackberry, boysenberry and blueberry onrush. Try in lieu of bourbonized raspberry chocolate cake.
