Mellow cold brewed coffee nuttiness resonates thru wood-seared dark roast hops and mild rye spot. Well-designed lightly embittered Black-malted El Salvadorian coffee bean setting.
ICARUS YUKON CORNELIUS COFFEE PORTER
CAPE MAY HONEY PORTER
Semi-sweet honey glaze counters Blackstrap molasses bittering given Bakers chocolate powdering and smoked coffee nuttiness for moderate-bodied English-styled porter. Oily hop char seeps into dark caramel sauce preceding molasses coffee finish.
DU CLAW PASTRYARCHY AIRPLANE COOKIE IMPERIAL BROWN ALE
Molasses biscuit pastry variant pervaded by dark chocolate-bound cinnamon toasting, burnt coffee onrush and slight peppermint twist. At the finish, much of its molasses cookie sweetness (and teensy black grape-cherry wisp) overwhelmed by blackened mocha bittering. Stylishly wayward brown ale.
LEINENKUGEL WHITE MOCHA STOUT
OK golden stout lets lightly creamed vanilla and light roast coffee get scoured by moderate hop astringency, coarsening its white chocolatey pale malt base (and letting carbolic fizz drown out its sweet side). Mild marshmallow, lemon cookie, vanilla cookie and honeyed oats illusions drift by.
AECHT ERLE
Rauchbier-derived alder smoked malting redirects debittered dark lagered schwarzbier. Sweet campfire sear coats smoked salami swagger and lesser ashen cocoa bittering. A certain dark-roast hop harshness evading better Aecht smoked beers fastens less defined cured meat finish.
CARTON REITGERTE GERMAN-STYLE BLACK LAGER
Tarry black coffee-stained bittering lingers as deep espresso flurry thickened by Hallertau hop-charred walnut sear and bitter Black malt bottom. Beneath the musky mocha surface, dark-roasted chocolate wheat malts and dehusked carafa malts lightly sweetened by cereal-grained pilsner malts.
DREKKER FLUFF STUFF – RASPBERRY
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, fluffily creamed marshmallow-bound Smoothie variant spreads hard-candied raspberry tartness all over briny lemon, tangy strawberry, Bing cherry and ripe banana residue. Richly sweet vanilla-daubed raspberry juicing thickly condensed.
LINDEMAN’S PECHERESSE INDULGENT PEACH LAMBIC
Effervescent pureed peach juice soaks in white wine esters for tartly sweet low alcohol (2.5%) lambic. A sparkling beer, champagned-like with its spritzy sparkle, picking up sweet lemonade sway before tertairy peach blossom, apricot and tangerine illusions join in above barley-sugared wheat base. Nearly cloy, but never slick.
WELDWERKS / FIDENS JUICY AXE HAZY IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, easygoing New England-styled IPA (with Citra-Mosaic-Galaxy-El Dorado hop tandem) brings waxy tropical fruited goodness to the fore. Sunny lemon-salted grapefruit zesting, sweetly spiced orange peel tanginess and teasing pineapple-mango-cantaloupe conflux push up against dank pine resin above pale-malted oated wheat creaming.
DISTRICT 96 FEAST MODE
Intense 11.5% New England IPA gives sunny lemony yellow grapefruit frontage a rummy vodka edge. Tropical mango-guava-gooseberry tartness, sweet melon-nectarine frolic, redcurrant tang and pinot gris white wining add depth. Underneath, resinous pine bittering contrasts oated wheat creaming.
BEER TREE FOGGY VALLEY NEW ENGLAND IPA
Semi-sharp Citra/Cashmere-hopped NEIPA allows salty lemon-limed yellow grapefruit, pineapple and passionfruit tang plus spritzy orange peel sweetness to reach piney Amarillo-hopped center. Tropical fruited sunshine anchored by soft oats-flaked white wheat base.
ROUND TABLE UNGA MUNGA!
Briskly clean lemon-seeded yellow grapefruit bittering picks up tingly candy-coated tartness spreading tropical sunshine on softly herbal-spiced hop pining atop delicate oats base. Well balanced, easygoing summertime quencher.
