Interesting year round mocha porter aged on incense-like palo santo wood loads mildly creamed dark chocolate syrup upon Madagascar vanilla bean bittering, toasted coconut sweetness, mild espresso milking and minty anise spicing. Slight burnt wood-toned chicory undercurrent laces robust mocha finish.
Sticky dark Belgian candi syrup drapes cinnamon stick-sweetened orange peel adjunct as well as whiskeyed dark cherry tartness, picking up a sharp medical kick at the viscous fruit-glazed finish. Bruised orange, Grand Marnier and tangerine liqueur illusions find meager space.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, ‘audacious’ 25th Anniversary Belgian dark ale lets honeyed date and green raisin adjuncts sweeten beside dark candi sugaring. Molasses-sapped vanilla bourbon whir and sustained brown chocolate influence outlast fig-dried berried fruiting of rich oak-aged elixir.
On tap at Growler & Gill, Mexican piñata-styled cocktail pivots pineapple-pureed toasted coconut juicing and milk-sugared vanilla creaming above sour lactic acidity like the finest hybridized hazy-yellowed New England IPA’s. Subtle grapefruit-orange tang and tart lemon-candied spurt amiably relegated by pineapple-coconut caking. Another durably original lactic NEIPA.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, ‘vibrant’ lemony grapefruit juicing brightens hazy orange-yellowed New England-styled IPA. Sunny citrus setting gains limey coconut milking and tangy mango-papaya-peach punch seized by herbaceous floral cluster above mild oats base.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, creamy oats sugaring, lactic yogurt souring, pasty herbal hop grouting and earthen dewiness enjoin peach-glazed grapefruit, orange and tangerine tanginess for mossy English-styled Americanized IPA.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, swaggeringly hybridized IPA truly knocks off sweet breakfast treat. Powdered sugar glaze seeps into syrupy strawberry-honeyed French Toast splendor, hiding its stylish lemony grapefruit-orange tropicalia beneath the surface. Recommended to sweet-toothed fanatics.
On tap at Hoover’s, crisply clean-watered medium body freshens tongue with grapefruit-juiced tangerine, passionfruit, pineapple and peach tang as well as zesty lemondrop souring above dry pale malting. Mildly resinous floral-herbed hop dankness gains grassy astringency to fend off piney citrus finish. In the can, ‘sassy’ semi-sharp Canadian IPA lets grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and ancillary tangerine, pineapple, mango and passionfruit tang receive danker piney hop resin.
On tap at Beef Trust, hard-candied sour fruited entry lacquers peach-glazed orange tang, bittersweet grapefruit-pineapple juicing and musky pine tones over rye-like pale malting.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead – Haledon, ‘aggressive’ Mosaic-hopped hazy New England-styled IPA stays crisply clean. Juicy tangerine tang leads the way for lemony grapefruit, mango and peach regalia above biscuit pale malting. Mild dank wood resin soaks into tropical fruiting.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, amber-hazed New England-styled IPA pits honeyed tropical fruiting against citric-dried Azacca hop bittering. Syrupy sweet mango, nectarine, cantaloupe and pineapple perfuming guarded by spicy pale malting against dank wet-grained pine tones.
On tap at Beef Trust, wort-derived kettle hops lacquer lemony mango assertion, bitter grapefruit zesting and sour gooseberry snip with crayon-like waxing above pilsner-bound white wheat malts.
