Fudgy dark chocolatey confectionery stout resembles a sweet mocha-drenched cookie as impressionable maple-sapped treacle, Sugar Daddy candy, creme brulee sugaring, bourbon chocolate syruping, Black forest cake richness and tingly anise spicing consume full-bodied dessert. Oreo cookie crust finish maintains aggression while slight raspberry-cherry fruitiness contrasts latent dark roast-hopped espresso in way back.
Dark roast walnut coffee entry gains tarry hop char as black chocolate bittering and Blackstrap molasses fortify fine dry Irish stout.
Confectionery Snickers candy bar entry picks up peanut-laced toffee sweetness (and slight cedar fragrance) to contrast overdone astringent hop phenols. Nutty caramelized milk chocolate sweetness barely has time to register before charred hops sear its whimsical sugar smack.
Marvelous Drayman’s Porter spinoff utilizing Dean’s Beans burrows medium roast chicory coffee indulgence thru caramel-burnt dark chocolate, blackened nut char and tarry Blackstrap molasses residue. Try in lieu of black coffee in bed. Recommended.
Despite milk-sugared maple syruping and chocolate-chipped cocoa, graham cracker, and marshmallow adjuncts, Bernie Sanders sendoff wreaked by weedy prune-soured cellar musk. Day-old coffee remnant and bitter anisette smidge don’t help.
Chai-spiced cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and clove illusions tingle thru ‘creamy latte’ midst (with a hint of anise). Dry chocolate roast persists.
Contrasting toasted pumpkin seed salting and musty orange oiling against sweet cinnamon-nutmeg spiced pumpkin pie crust, briny gourd-ridden autumnal moderation lets leafy hop astringency seep into corn-sugared Vienna malt grist.
Compact chestnut brown porter closer to a nut brown ale as its charred walnut bittering and ashen hop sear counter sweet almond-chestnut subtleties in wavering chocolate-roasted caramel setting.
Peaty spelt wheat redirects coffee-roasted black chocolate bittering a tad as cedar-smoked molasses, glazed pecan, hazelnut cake and dark cherry illusions drift thru dry anise-spiced midst. At the smoked mocha finish lies brown buttered spelt chocolate cookie remnant.
Mellow cocoa nibs bank nutty caramel roast and muted dark fruiting above bread-crusted chocolate oats base.
Elegant 15.1% abv barleywine aged in cognac and bourbon barrels given brown-sugared British pale and crystal malting plus figgy raisin-prune dried fruiting and spunky whiskeyed cherry glaze over bittersweet dark cocoa base. Spirited dry burgundy, sweet sherry and blackberry brandy serenity daubs evolving bourbon vanilla-spiced warmth. Spectral array of Anisette liqueur, candied cherry, burnt molasses and Graham Cracker illusions indulge the busy backend of luscious nightcap.
Dry sour saison (a funky earthen Belgian farmhouse ale) pleats lemony green grape esters to light white wining showcasing Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigios splendor above acidulated wheat base. Distant white peach, prickly pear and sharp cider illusions flutter.
