On tap at Beef Trust, complex ultra-creamy tan-headed brown body conditioned on milk-sugared cocoa nibs maintains extremely rich mocha sentiment as fudgy brown chocolate syruping turns to tarry Blackstrap molasses-embittered hop char by the boldly unfolding finish. Along the way, dark cocoa continuance picks up peaty Scotch licks, cinnamon spicing, hazelnut pasting and vanilla creaming over dark rye malting.
Richly creamed black cherry-infused stout loads cacao-nibbed dark chocolate syruping onto tarry Blackstrap molasses bittering, leaving mild bourbon-burgundy wining upon grape-jammed bruised black cherry tartness and pasty almond-hazelnut snag fortressing amplified mocha finish.
On tap at Taphouse 15, confectionary stout uploads toasted coconut, honey-glazed hazelnut and sweet Maraschino cherry onto vanilla-creamed brown chocolate goodness. Mounds Bar chocolate-coconut candied sway infiltrates chewy finish, leaving its hazelnut-cherry-vanilla adjuncts in the dust alongside wispy cinnamon bourbon whims.
On tap at Taphouse 15, sumptuous Imperial Tiramisu Pastry Stout coalesces toasted coconut, Honduran coffee, Tahitian vanilla and brown chocolate in rich lactose setting. Its bourbon vanilla alacrity ascends above creamy coffee-chocolate loft anchored by Graham Cracker wheat sugaring. Best Estonian beer yet.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, lovely white chocolate ensemble gains milk-sugared coffee tones before cocoa-powdered macadamia nuttiness comes aboard. Yellow-caked vanilla creaming sweetens ancillary marshmallow, toasted coconut, almondine and powdered sugar pastry illusions. Only its meandering phenol hop astringency seems outta place.
Ambitiously perplexing pale-toned breakfast buffet conditioned on cinnamon and milk-sugared coffee remains weirdly chameleonic hodgepodge. Somehow connecting cold-brewed coffee overtones with smoky cinnamon bark spicing, powdered sugar marshmallow fluffing and pancake-battered maple syruping, its spritzy lemon twist rims the light-roast java stead but the limey cologne waver sometimes clutters the spiced coffee finish. An intriguingly offbeat cinnamon coffee cake elixir.
Creamy banana-clove insistence gains strength against zesty lemon pith bittering, herbal Belgian-like yeast phenols, nectarous rum sugaring and starchy plantain snip to secure bolder stylistic urgency.
Wispily bourbon barrel-aged stout needs richer resolve although brown-sugared maple syruping glides above light-roast coffee tones and vanilla pastry creaming with great ease. Pancake breakfast treat retains doughy powdered sugar buttermilk intrigue as distant dry bourbon, dark cherry and grape jam illusions graze latent burnt-toast hop char.
Politely creamed vanilla sugaring gains toffee-spiced brown chocolate sweetness and Blackstrap molasses coffee tones above mild hop-charred pine tarring for efficiently integrated dark ale.
On tap at Beef Trust, fruity Regular Coffee spinoff finished on raspberries plies milk-sugared coffee creaming to pastry-caked breakfast confection. Raspberry jellied tartness sweetens yellow-caked coffee caking for fine proprietary derivative.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, raw-honeyed dry maize sinew contrasts corn-flaked vanilla sugaring of pale malted cream ale (with a snazzy dessert-like Creamsicle twist). Doughy Danish pastry finish picks up cannoli, zeppole and marshmallow sweetener that absorbs mild tea latte snip. Fairly unconventional stylistically.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, fizzy purplish amber-cleared Berliner Weiss (with bubbly pink champagne head) lets tart raspberry rasp receive sour lemon spritz and delicate floral daubs to its earthen-dried salty bottom. Mildly acidic raspberry adjunct picks up subtle oaken cherry, cranberry and pomegranate illusions.
