On tap at Three Wise Monks, busy hybridized ‘hopped up’ brown ale collaboration pleats mocha porter sweetness to IPA-fruited dark saison souring. Chocolate-covered cherry tartness straddles soured red grape esters and ripe nectar juicing. Ashen hop bittering and chalky cocoa acridity contrast its chewy caramel core.
Vapid summertime moderation with negligible orange-peeled hibiscus influence and musty phenol spicing fails to make proper impact. Bland cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg illusions drape weak caramel malting. Pallid Belgian yeast strain is insufficient and ill-defined, lacking peppery citric resolve.
Thin chartreuse-hazed German weiss/ American fruit ale hybrid offers dainty elderberry influence to washed-out banana-clove sweetness and coarse hop spicing. Light floral-tinged blueberry, blackberry and boysenberry illusions hit the nose but recede flavor-wise.
Treasonous Belgian dubbel re-creation snubs stylistic barriers for a novel deconstruction relying more on nutty brown-sugared dried fruiting than peppery candi-sugared yeast spicing. Peanut-shelled cola-pecan-praline illusions, maple-sapped fig-date-prune-cherry nuances and molasses-draped sarsaparilla snips crowd the caramel-burnt toffee malting. Coarse ashen hop astringency counters the lovely soft-watered effervescence.
Soft vanilla creaming depreciates by astringent phenol-hopped midst. Caramel-toasted almond, coconut and marshmallow illusions run out of steam while vacuous chocolate roast never materializes. Oily diacetyl buttering ruins the lame vanilla-sweet finish.
Desultory oatmeal-flaked dark ale fails to properly integrate. Dessicated grain-roasted dark chocolate malting picks up blunt lactose souring as raw cocoa nibs chalking, dry Baker’s chocolate astringency and musty vanilla bean snip get foiled by acrid hop char.
Extremely complex, richly creamed autumnal dessert collaboration perfectly blends dark-roasted caramel nougat sweetness with Madagascar vanilla bean luster and molasses-sapped pumpkin spicing. Dried-fruited black cherry puree, raspberry, blackberry and raisin illusions push up against gingerbread-sugared nutmeg-allspice-clove seasoning as well as vegetal butternut-squash-yam nuances. Weedy earthen dewiness and ashen hop char deepen cocoa-dried black chocolate malting. Even a hint of marshmallow seeps into the busily eccentric mix.
Unsustainable coffee roast entry, wispy dark-roasted chocolate nuttiness and fudgy cocoa snip washed-out by phenol carbolic fizz. Mildly creamed mocha froth gets soapy above wary oats-sugared spine. Inconsequential obsidian-hued brown-watered oatmeal stout.
Affluent cocoa-seeded dark chocolate roast and reedy hop char ascend above ashen pine-tarred tobacco chaw bittering. Oncoming espresso coffee contingent deepens creamy smoked mocha finish. Butter pecan, burnt caramel and toffee sweetness inundate the back-end. Casual dried fruiting (red plum/black cherry), delicate bourbon whir and wispy anise snip find tertiary space.
‘Brash’ cold-brewed coffee sugaring surges forth over bitter espresso followup, chewy yeast sinew and gooey black licorice. Maple-sapped honeyed oats secure affable mocha java theme. Tertiary marshmallow, cappuccino and vanilla illusions found below radar.
Gregarious bittersweet coffee entry picks up subtle dark fruiting over barley-flaked hop oils. Exceptionally smooth java theme really overwhelms distant pink grapefruit, lemon rind, blueberry, raspberry and tangerine twang. Lovely coffee roast convincingly soaks into resinous wood-toned Tomahawk hop splotch.
Pour slowly hybridized Imperial Stout (with dried fruited Flanders Red-styled souring) or risk carbolic overload. Musky Belgian chocolate spicing receives ascending cocoa chalked astringency, slick caramel malting and murky pecan-chestnut smear, drenching the mustily tart cherry-berry-fig acridity. Dirty earthen peat bottom negatively coarsens the roasted hop bittering until the mildly creamed mocha tendencies all but disappear.
