Rich porter infused with vanilla beans gains moderate coffee roast, milk chocolate creaming and hot cocoa reminder. Fine mocha vanilla blend.
NO COAST AGRICULTURED RYE PORTER
On tap at Brass Tap, black-malted rye breading gains dark chocolate, dry cocoa and roasted coffee tones. Earthen peat dankness, warming whiskey wisp and teensy charcoal singe seep into dry chocolate rye finish.
LONE PINT KNECHT RUPRECHT IV – 2017
On tap at Brass Tap, rich milk-sugared coffee entry and moderate cocoa nibs follow-up sit atop mild charcoal tarring. Dry espresso tones and nutty reminder subtly embitter fuzzy java warmth.
GREAT RAFT OLD MAD JOY
On tap at Brass Tap, dry Baltic Porter leaves charcoal-stained chocolate and cocoa souring upon black grape esters and earthen minerality. Soy-sauced black cherry, prune and fig illusions waver below.
BUFFALO BAYOU SAM’S WAKE AND BAKE
On tap at Brass Tap, creamy milk-sugared coffee tones and sweet vanilla adjunct pace approachable breakfast-styled blonde ale. Bittersweet vanilla-coffee cadre then consumes mild Graham Cracker-like wheat malts as well as crème brulee, almond and pecan snips.
TEXAS ALE PROJECT SOMETHIN’ SHADY PORTER
Nearly ‘sublime’ full-bodied porter thrusts roasted chocolate and coffee overtones at molasses-smoked brown breading and recessive hop-charred walnut bittering. Creamy mocha richness never tapers off.
MARTIN HOUSE FRIDAY IPA
On tap at Flying Saucer – Garland, juicy yellow grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering picks up perfume-spiced floral resonance to contrast oncoming lemon-rotted herbal hop dankness.
TUPPS DOUBLE DRY HOPPED IPA
On tap at Taverna Rossa, lemony grapefruit tang befits crisp Mosaic-Citra-Galaxy hop vibrancy. Sweet honeyed fruiting contrasts sour citric slash as gluey malt grouting repeals herbaceous dankness below the surface.
PETICOLA’S TOO SOON INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Meddlesome Moth, soft-toned IPA with moderate resin hop bittering and dewy fungi earthiness gains musky burnt orange dribble, bruised lemon wedge and dried fig snip over dry pale malting. Resembles tea-like English IPA a tad.
STILLWATER STROBE LIGHTS IPA
On tap at Poor Henry’s, concise soft-toned medium body (brewed at Boston’s Dorchester Brewing) lets spritzy lemon-peeled grapefruit juicing receive subtle mandarin orange and clementine riffs as well as distant passionfruit, pineapple, papaya and mango tropicalia. Grassy hop astringency and resinous pine hints contrasted by sugared pale malting.
OAK HIGHLANDS DERELICT IPA
Sharp piney citrus bittering rouses grassy hop astringency and dankly resinous earthiness to contrast floral-spiced crystal malting in surprisingly easygoing manner. Pleasant yellow grapefruit and orange rind bitterness never relents. For less bitter hop-heads.
RABBIT HOLE OFF WITH YOUR RED IPA
Efficiently blending red ale-like amber grain toasting with citric IPA-styled pining, smooth medium body never fails to delight. Resinous pine sap lingers atop sweet orange peel, zesty grapefruit, grilled pineapple and juicy mango fruiting. Light baguette bottom underscores tropical resilience.