Well-balanced medium-bodied Belgian-styled hybrid offers rye-flaked spelt graining to honey-spiced dried fruiting and mild ancho chili peppering. Soured prune-raisin-fig nuances infiltrate peated rye breading. Lightly creamed carbolic fluff softens caramel fruited finish.
Celebrating its newfound independence with a friendly dismissal to ‘contract brewers,’ complex 7-malt/ 7-hop Cascadian Dark Ale piles dark-roasted mocha malting to less distinct dried fruiting and acrid charcoal-burnt pine ash. Dark chocolate, dusty cocoa and stove-burnt coffee crowd earthen peat midst, where pineapple, grapefruit, apple and orange undertones fight for space. Distant walnut, cola nut and Brazil nut illusions deepen overall mocha richness.
On tap at Dog & Cask, rich dark chocolate malting, kiln-roasted coffee bittering and piney hop-charred fruiting find a balanced blend. Capacious grapefruit-pineapple-lemon tang leaves permanent impression upon heavy mocha molasses romp. Ashen pine embers and resinous evergreen cinders bring mild pungent acridity to burnt black bread bottom.
Well-integrated 1st anniversary medium body coalesces velvety molasses-smoked black chocolate malting with grain-charred hop roast, picking up brownie-battered cocoa nibs, dusty cocoa and mild coffee undertones. Desiccated black cherry tartness lingers softly beneath musty mocha pervasiveness.
On tap at Three Wise Monks, bold 17th anniversary celebrator ransacks dark-roasted black chocolate creaming and wood-charred black patent malting with volatile sooty charcoal astringency. Mild black coffee stead deepens burnt toast acridity and hop-charred nuttiness. Anise, vanilla extract, raw molasses, cocoa powder and cola nut illusions seep into the burly mix.
Sludgily rich and immensely creamy high-gravity Imperial Stout (12%abv) magnifies chewy dark chocolate syruping with glutinous anise affluence, tarry molasses sugaring and densely compact roasted barley flakes. In the midst, fudgy chocolate-caked sweetness serenades black cherry, bourbon and burgundy sentiments. At the finish, hickory-smoked mocha malting spreads across tertiary chocolate eclair, chocolate truffle, chocolate liqueur and cappuccino undertones.
Ineffective copper-hazed Octoberfest-styled rauchbier loses initial beechwood-flamed campfire sentiment and peat-smoked barleymalt access to less appealing lemon-soured briskness. Maple-glazed bacon niche muted by arid carbolic fizz.
Intimate Christmas ale gathers wintry cinnamon-ginger-nutmeg seasoning for honeyed citric splendor. Maple-sugared caramel malting contrasts lilting orange and lemon peel bittering. Pine nut, plum, fig and date undertones casually stride by. Subtle ethanol burn lingers softly.
Embracing a nuttier coffee affluence than Atwater’s Vanilla Java Porter, full-bodied dark ale layers caramel-burnt black patent malts, dark chocolate richness and coffee bean roast atop ashen hazelnut-walnut-cola conflux. Raw molasses bittering and dark-roasted hop char advance malleable mocha mass.
Better updated version (2013) loads creamy French vanilla bean roast and lovely milked coffee sedation into caramel-burnt hop char. Fudgy black chocolate midst contrasts raw molasses bittering and wavered black pepper snip. Latent cappuccino hints abound. 2019 version let mildly creamed cocoa-dried vanilla bean bittering hover alongside cedar-seared Blackstrap molasses hop char, but minor phenol aridity beckons.
Sessionable and well-rounded moderation thrusts illustrious honey fruited bouquet into mild grassy hop resin. Sweet peach, nectar, mango and mandarin orange vibrancy fades slowly as bitter lemon-seeded yellow grapefruit and pineapple briskness increases. Some musty cellar dankness disrupts its delicate crystalline flow.
Fair lawnmower fare in purplish golden can spreads mild orange-peeled coriander adjunct across white-peppered Belgian yeast and soft-watered backdrop. Lightly sugared pink grapefruit, lemon pith, yellow apple and white grape illusions add distant flare.
Stylistically robust clear-yellowed tin-canned helles lager works maize-dried sorghum and straw wheat into corn-flaked neutrality. Off-putting musty hop astringency and minor metallic tinniness disrupt tepid lemon spritz.
