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.
OAKFLOWER MERROW DRY IRISH STOUT
TROEGS CHOCOLATE ELF HOLIDAY ALE
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.
TROEGS MAD DREAMS HOLIDAY ALE
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.
POHJALA B.P. DAY 2025
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.
KOMES RASPBERRY PORTER
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.
SOUTHERN TIER APPLE CRUMBLE BROWN ALE
Wintry dessert treat with brown buttered cinnamon apple crumble theme advanced by apple cobbler, cinnamon streusel and caramelized apple illusions. Rummy vanilla creaming rises to the surface, allowing fizzy cream soda spritz to tickle the nose.
ALLAGASH HAUNTED HOUSE HOPPY DARK ALE
Nifty autumnal Belgian dark ale spreads candi-sugared nut spicing across semi-rich fluffily creamed dark chocolatey rye toasting. Dewy moss saturates maple-glazed almond, chestnut, cola, pecan and hazelnut sweetness and slight black peppering sprinkles day-old coffee spell of cocoa-bound stylistic merger.
IMPRINT SCHMOOJEE 7EVENTH ANNIVERSARY CAKE
Chewy marshmallow-centered fruity Smoothie lets tart strawberry-blueberry puree plus juicy raspberry, red cherry and red grape subsidy entice red velvet cake battering, picking up custard-like egg cream froth given mildly acidic orange concentrate onrush.
ROUND TABLE OPEN 360 WILD ALE
Dryly fruited pink glowed ‘wild ale’ brings salted raspberry tartness to limey lemon oiling. Sour lactose yeast provides horse-blanketed barnyard mustiness to acidulated malt base.
KINGSTON STANDARD BARREL 16 LAMBIC
Spontaneous wild fermented sour ale with musty cellared funk, leathery barnyard acridity and lactobacillus yeast spiking salted lemon-limed dryness and tannic green grape esters. Spry Sprite soda spritz contrasts cat-pissed ammonia whiff below the mouth-puckeringly sour surface.
AXEMANN HOP ALLOY INDIA PALE ALE
Sharp lemony grapefruit seeded bittering graces piney juniper-berried hop spicing, dark floral residue and latent mango-tangerine slither of slightly offbeat West Coast IPA reliant on somewhat unconventional multi hop bill.
CAPE MAY MOP WATER 5-SPICED ALE
Wintry multi-spiced chestnut brown holiday ale props up sharp ginger-nutmeg-allspice seasoning and cinnamon-toasted Apple Jack sugaring given caramelized vanilla sugaring to counter oncoming phenol hop astringency.
