On tap at Kitchen And Beer Bar, tantalizingly rich pastry-creamed salted caramel sweetness given butter pecan, spiced toffee, maple molasses, honeyed granola, creme brulee and butterscotch auxiliary to contrast cedar-burnt hop sear.
BOLERO SNORT SHAMOOROCK SHAKE IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Beef Trust, nifty St. Patrick’s Day confection offers spiffy Junior Mint/ York Peppermint candied promise. Mildly creamed dark chocolate-centered vanilla and marshmallow adjuncts guard minty freshness.
SOURCE PADDY’S DAY – NITRO DRY IRISH STOUT
On tap at Beef Trust, soft-tongued nitro flow allows nutty dark chocolate bittering to engage mild hop as arid carbolic fizz detonates. Brazil nut, walnut and cola nut tags.
FLOUNDER INDULGENCE
Closer to a dry Irish Stout than a sweet lactose milk stout with its dark chocolate-y cocoa nibs assault, black malted Blackstrap molasses bittering and dark-roast hop char taking hold. Espresso-foamed day-old coffee remnant and ashen Brazil nut sear deepen the mocha bitterness while wispy blackberry, black cherry and blackcurrant illusions wander below.
FLOUNDER FOR PEATS SAKE SCOTCH WEE HEAVY
Dewy peat-smoked grist sweetens pumpernickel rye toasting of mossy wee heavy. Below the wet grain surface, sugared pastry malts lag alongside desiccated prune, apricot and orange slivers.
CAPE MAY CHOCOLATE-COVERED STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKE IPA
Straight-up chocolate strawberry milkshake brings mild vanilla creaming to the party as creme brulee, chocolate strawberry mousse cake and strawberry taffy illusions flirt with dried cacao nibs in the fluffy background.
ASLIN BREWER’S SERIES MILKSHAKE IPA #2
Approachably unassuming pale golden-hazed milkshake IPA brings waxy grapefruit-orange-pineapple salting, zesty lemon liming and toasted coconut shavings to mildly creamed milk-sugared pina colada cocktail reminder.
SOURCE VALENTINE’S DAY TRIPLE MILKSHAKE IPA
Vibrant purple-foamed pink belly conditioned on milk-sugared strawberry, blackberry and blueberry retains vanilla-creamed strawberry sweetness punctuated by grapefruit-soured blood orange tartness and teasing floral wafts. Strawberry-pureed blackberry and blueberry compote provide Danish pastry filling for viscous vanilla gelato midst and zestful Citra-Mosaic-Moteuka hop combo. Anyone for strawberry vanilla ice cream?
DECADENT COCONUT SWIRL! TRIPLE IPA
Lusciously sweet coconut-toasted vanilla creaming consumes zesty lemon sunshine and light rum spicing of limey Pina Colada takeoff. Its sugary marshmallow center and lemony mango-grapefruit spritz add further luster to tropical dessert cocktail.
BRIX CITY YOU HAVE MY SWORD
Delicate Imperial IPA brings floral-bound grapefruit zest to sugary wheated oats base. In the shadows, sweet orange-peeled tangerine and clementine tanginess stays calm alongside lightly salted passionfruit-pineapple-papaya piquancy.
BATTERY STEELE FLUME DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, sunshiny orange-peeled yellow grapefruit tanginess joins juicy pineapple-mango-clementine onrush, tart green grape esters and yogurt-soured vanilla creaming above sugary oated wheat base in lightly pined lupulin powdered Citra-Mosaic hop setting for brewers’ well-balanced flagship.
BURLINGTON BEER PEASANT KING DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
Easygoing citrus zesting and light piney hop resin greet sessionable summertime softie. Lemony orange peel tang wispily gains salted pineapple-mango-papaya-clementine zing, herb-licked floral subtleties and clean lemongrass vodka whisk. A simple moderate-bodied pleasure.