On tap at Doherty’s, soft-toned rye porter spreads brown and black chocolate malting across dry-spiced hop char. Belgian chocolate-spiced dark cocoa, smoked molasses, roasted coffee, espresso and toffee undertones increase creamy mocha soothe.
RAVENOUS COFFEE MILK STOUT
On tap at Doherty’s, dry milk stout brings Rustica coffee bean roast to nutty chocolate opulence. Beneath the surface, black chocolate, Godiva chocolate, frothy espresso and vanilla bean illusions pop up alongside Brazil nut, hazelnut and cola nut nuances. Soft mineral-watered smoothness provides crisply clean flow for milk-creamed coffee finish. In the bottle circa ’18, mild coffee-roasted espresso bean presence competes favorably with bittersweet black chocolate tones and hop-charred walnut-cola conflux, finishing with a silken carbolic briskness.
RUSHING DUCK DED MOROZ IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, hybridized boundary-broadened Imperial Stout contrasts expectant black patent-malted dark chocolate roast with stylishly divergent dried fruiting and vinous port wining. Soured fig, cherry and prune illusions as well as tannic grape notions get just as much space as mild coffee-stained chocolate Kahlua stead.
EVIL TWIN I LOVE YOU WITH MY STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, masterful gypsy brewer (utilizing Two Roads Brewing) delivers beautifully complex chocolate dessert. Cookie dough yeast surrounds black chocolate frontage as well as creme de cocoa, coconut, toffee, vanilla and almond undertones. Light black cherry sweetness, mild burgundy-port wining and scant raspberry-blackberry tartness scurry across massive mocha-sugared resilience.
SPEAKEASY BLACK HAND CHOCOLATE MILK STOUT
On tap at Ambulance, creamily lactic milk stout offers mild cacao nibs influence to bittersweet coffee-roasted dark chocolate malting. Light vanilla bean, almond milk, dark cocoa, Baker’s chocolate and espresso undertones scatter beneath.
SIXPOINT BEAST MODE PORTER
On tap at Ambulance, vaguely stylized porter nearly puts expectant dark chocolate roast on the backburner for earthen wood-dried tangent and honeyed citrus spell. In the deep recess, nutty caramel-toffee sweetness fades away.
BAXTER WINDOW SEAT PORTER
On tap at Ambulance, nice dessert treat utilizes ‘coconut and almond’ to backup sweet mocha malting. Coconut-buttered toasted almond splendor drapes mildly creamed brown chocolate, vanilla and molasses sugaring, contrasting light charred hop bittering.
SINGLECUT GEORGE CALME ALE WITH WHISKEY MARINATED CASCARA
On tap at Ambulance, whiskey marinated herbal delight finds its sweet-liquored spirits whisked away by citra-hopped orange and lemon souring as well as wispy almond-marzipan nuances. Peppery Belgian yeast spicing enhances floral citric herbage at whiskey-dabbed finish.
PERENNIAL ARIA
On tap at Ambulance, respectable citric-soured Belgian pale ale gains musty barnyard leathering from fungi-like brettanomyces yeast. Orange-rotted lemon meringue tang, bittersweet herbal-honeyed whiskey nip, modest green apple tartness and wispy pineapple piquancy relegate moderate hop spicing.
KNEE DEEP STOW THE CROZE BARLEYWINE
On tap at Ambulance, summery dry-hopped barleywine gathers zesty citric fruiting to create crystalline India Pale Ale splendor. Bright navel orange, yellow grapefruit and pineapple overtones gain strength above sugary caramel malting. Minor alcohol astringency found at citric-candied finish.
PEEKSKILL SHOTGUN WILLIE IPA
On tap at Ambulance, easygoing moderation may be stylishly soft-toned, but never at the expense of riveting bark-dried yellow grapefruit bittering. Mild Nelson Sauvin hop tropicalia induces orange-peeled pineapple, mango, papaya, passionfruit and peach illusions as well as wispy gooseberry tartness to backup lemony grapefruit finish. Dry-grained rye wheat bottom seems sufficient.
BLACK HOG GINGA NINJA RED INDIA PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, hybridized IPA brings sweet ginger spicing to wood-dried grapefruit peel, orange rind and pineapple bittering, picking up light floral-perfumed nuances. Sharp piney hop bite reinforces citric nature.
