On tap at Capital Craft – East Hanover, well integrated 2020 Imperial Stout fermented with Italian red wine yeast gets barrel aged in bourbon and port for fulsome mocha-bound dessert. Rich dark coffee-chocolate tones seep into sweet red wine insistence to its cookie dough bottom. Wispy anise, blueberry, blackberry, brandy, oaken vanilla and vinous cider illusions stay subtler than tannic port-bourbon wining.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, mildly creamed dry porter utilizes oats-flaked Black malt bittering and earthen Glacier hops for briskly mineral watered dry porter. Staying smooth as ice, its silken cocoa nibs gain dark chocolate and dried coffee tones, overwhelming its mild hazelnut adjunct.
On tap at Coastal Craft, mellow English-styled barleywine conditioned on Willet Bourbon segues Scotch-whiskeyed cherry tones into oaken vanilla splendor above toffee-spiced chocolate rye malting. Subtle bourbon intrigue steadied.
Honeyed apricot persimmon adjunct slips into bleary plum-dried cider souring, moldy citrus zesting and slightly cinnamon-toasted amber graining over earthen dew for falteringly disorganized Belgian dark ale hybrid.
On tap at Coastal Craft, perky non-dairy oat-milked IPA raises yogurt-soured pineapple, peach and tangerine tartness as well as salted mango-grapefruit-orange conflux above modest vanilla creaming.
Lactose-soured milk sugaring lingers thru muzzled almond-crumbed toasted coconut adjunct and oaken vanilla tartness. Sour yogurt milking curdles limey guava-gooseberry conflux penetrating salty coconut watering.
On tap at Tavern 5, lactose-aided IPA integrates tangy peach pureed vanilla sedation with briskly sharp orange-peeled grapefruit zesting and piney hop oiling in lightly creamed caramel malt setting.
Sticky blueberry-pancaked syruping drapes whipped-creamed pastry dessert. Buttery blueberry pecan glaze coats contrastive juniper-embittered piney hops fortifying mighty citrus souring. Vanilla-topped blueberry pie tartness settles in latently.
On tap at Beef Trust, vibrant herb-spiced tropical fruiting takes hold above dry pine serenity and mild grassy astringency in floral-daubed double dry-hopped mineral water setting. Streamlined grapefruit, orange, peach, tangerine and cherry tang resonates.
Sunny gold-hazed NEIPA brings steadily mellow lemon-limed grapefruit bittering and modest orange-peeled pineapple-passionfruit-clementine tang to pine lacquered grassy hop astringency above dainty crystal malt sugaring.
On tap at Tavern 5, juicy ‘white mousse-headed’ yellow golden moderation plies spry orange-peeled red grapefruit tanginess and muted mango-papaya-pineapple-peach-tangerine slurp to mild herbal pining over satiny oats flaked malting.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, harmoniously integrating black currant-spiced raspberry tartness with spritzy grapefruit-orange juiciness and wispy vodka-nipped juniper bittering, crystalline NEIPA stays silky smooth. Piquant raspberry currant saucing and zesty citrus snap add wispy blueberry-boysenberry notions above delicate grainy pilsner base.
