On tap at Ambulance, bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout utilizes milk-sugared Ethiopian coffee creaming and chocolate-fudged Ugandan vanilla bean rampage. Bourbon vanilla sweetness gains resilience fortifying chocolate-y coffee stead while tart black cherry, toffee and molasses undertones settle beneath.
On tap at Hoover’s, bold breakfast stout blends Kona-Sumatra coffee bean bittering with fudgy Belgian chocolate sweetness above maple-sugared flaked oats. Expansive mocha richness spreads thru cedar-seared hop char, picking up warm whisky nip, mild cola-hazelnut sashay and peaty earthiness.
On tap at Hoover’s, velvety winter warming nitro Imperial Stout (with beautifully cascading tan head slowly rising above mahogany body) impressively dupes Mexican-spiced hot chocolate. Creamy cookie dough-thickened milk chocolate fudging surges thru cocoa-powdered cayenne peppering and toasted cinnamon sugaring, picking up mild vanilla sweetness. A luscious cinnamon-spiced mocha dessert with just a hint of peppery heat.
On tap at Growler & Gill, embracingly fulsome hybridized breakfast stout succeeds at knocking off syrupy maple-laced pecan pancake. Sweet milk chocolate fudging gains dark-roast coffee bittering to contrast molasses-sapped pecan glaze and subsidiary spiced toffee, creamed vanilla and cinnamon illusions. Decadent!
On tap at Beef Trust, impactful Belgian candi-sugared milk chocolate richness drapes sweet hazelnut-pistachio adjunct and fulsome dried fruiting over dewy peat soiling. Bittersweet dark chocolate syrup glazes nutty crème brulee center while pureed black cherry, prune, brandy and bugundy illusions prove fertile.
On tap at Growler & Gill, transitionally deviant dry Irish Stout goes rogue as coconut-toasted milk chocolate sweetness secures casual dried fruiting along the way. Coconut-floured chocolate caking gains dark cherry, stewed fig and green raisin illusions as well as residual dark rum, spiced toffee and Irish coffee whims – ultimately contrasting its expansive dark-roast hop bittering.
On tap at Hoover’s, ‘freshly baked oatmeal cookie’ knockoff brings dark-roasted black chocolate syruping to brown-sugared flaked oats and sharp hop char in efficient manner.
Chameleonic dry export stout (with creamily tan head frothing above rich mahogany body) lets hickory-smoked bacon, country ham and maple syrup adjuncts pick up lovely peat-seared cedar char and dark-roast hop oiling to relegate black chocolate malting. In the recess, hickory-smoked cured meat frontage transforms to unlikely black cherry pureed tartness.
Soothing caramelized chocolate fudging relegates medium roast coffee bittering and mild vanilla creaming of well-rounded full body (brewed at Great South Bay). Coffee-vanilla theme continually loses out to cocoa-dried dark chocolate malting while bitter Blackstrap molasses-coated wood char gains access.
Silken milk-sugared coffee creaming receives surging cocoa-powdered dark chocolate bittersweetening over barley-flaked Maris Otter malts. Lactic mocha continuance picks up latent vanilla sweetness, day-old coffee resonance and burnt caramel smidge, but phenol carbolic fizz undoes the acrid finish.
On tap at Hoover’s, dark-roast black chocolate malting gains dry nutty coffee tone, raw molasses bittering and charred hop remnant for moderately creamed cocoa-nibbed full body.
Rich Polish Baltic Porter brings semi-sweet dark milk chocolate to caramel-burnt molasses sugaring and latent dried fruiting over maple-sapped mocha malting. At the midst, cocoa-dried chocolate resonance picks up dark-roast coffee tones to embitter ashen wood-burnt hop char as recessive prune-raisin-plum conflux and distant pumpernickel, pipe tobacco, toffee, walnut and carob flour illusions soak into the mighty mocha mass.
