Serviceable dark ale moderation lacks sufficient mocha richness, becoming a tad watery by the lactic milk chocolate finish. Powdered cocoa, Baker’s chocolate and black coffee tones counter vanilla-creamed brown chocolate sweetness as well as latent brownie-fudged dark toffee alacrity. Dark-roasted hop bittering deepens the back-end.
Excellent nitro version of increasingly popular milk stout maintains similar attributes of original, though resinous bullion hop bittering seeps deeper into dark-roasted chocolate malting and nutty coffee roast. Lactic sugaring contrasts raw molasses acridity, dry espresso milking and burnt wood wisp at downplayed black currant midst. Guinness fans should give it a go.
Frothily creamy full-bodied winter stout spikes aggressive chocolate-spiced molasses richness and dark-roasted caramel malting with wood-smoked campfire embers. Chewy cookie dough thickness enhances anise-sweetened mocha theme. Chocolate eclair, chocolate liqueur, milk chocolate, nutty coffee, bourbon and rum undertones gain momentum.
Restrained Kenyan coffee roast dries out above dark-roasted hop char, milk-sugared molasses creaminess and oats-flaked maple base of watery 4% ABV breakfast fare. Easygoing espresso, black chocolate and cocoa powder subsidies keep lactic java stout highly sessionable.
Well-balanced Cascadian Dark Ale underscores coffee-roasted dark chocolate bittering with piney molasses sugaring and caliginous dried fruiting. Black patent malting picks up minor anise-fennel snip as ascending orange-dried blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry fruiting sweetens the unflagging mocha decisiveness.
‘Intricate’ Belgian-spiced candi sugaring, sourdough breading and herbal peppering inundate delightful yellow-fruited moderation. Below lemon-soured orange compote tartness lies cotton-candied Vienna malt sweetness that contrasts wispy lemongrass-peppercorn salting and earthen musk.
Revived pre-prohibition recipe of clear copper-bronzed light body debunked by murky sour citric acidity. Rancid navel orange tartness, musky lemon bruise and tertiary apple rot foil leafy hop astringency. Musty earthen soiling deadens perfunctory nut-grained influence.
Novel fruited summer ale brings juicy blood orange tang to citric Cascade hop spritz. Sweetly tangy and sourly tart tangerine-candied midst picks up burdening plastique astringency. Subsidiary mandarin orange, tangerine and clementine illusions reinforce blood orange theme fairly well.
Redonkulous ultra-dry Berliner weiss grabs immediate attention flogging purple-labeled Teen Beat mag design while devising tartly acidic blueberry scour. Hooking up with gypsy Dane beer designer, Evil Twin, South Carolina’s finest brewery, Westbrook, bottles and kegs this mightily lactic magenta-pinked sour ale. Puckering lemon-juiced blueberry vinaigrette souring receives vinous green grape, oaken cherry and green apple pungency over crisp-watered minerality. Syrupy woodruff illusions waver beneath bubbly champagne sparkle. Here’s another interesting lactobacillus-injected competitor.
Mellower double bock styling allows chewy raisin sweetness to penetrate brown-sugared caramel malting contrasting mild dry-hopped bittering. Subtle fig, plum and prune illusions receive light maple molasses sweetening. Distant dark rum, toffee, pecan and marzipan undertones get splattered.
Adequate straw-paled moderation brings mild lemony orange-peeled tang to subtle white-peppered hop bittering and resinous pine nook. Ancillary pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine and mango illusions slither by. Crystalline-watered crisping, fresh herbal nuances and white-breaded spine further soften the mood.
Dynamic cold-filtered ‘strong pale lager’ loads dry-hopped tropical fruiting atop mild leafy hop bittering. Bright grapefruit-peeled orange rind and lemon pith impressions lean forward above soft-toned floral herbage. On the sweet side, ripened tangerine, peach, pineapple, mango, papaya and guava illusions shine on.
