Silken pureed Italian plum influence buried beneath brutish mocha fruited Cascadian Dark Ale (a.k.a. Black IPA) tendencies. Stove-burnt coffee, dark-roasted chocolate and cocoa nibs affect pine-charred cola-pecan-hickory nuttiness as well as murky pinor noir-wined purple grape, black cherry, fig and date illusions. Distant charcoal burn picks up dewy earthen din at dried fruited finish.
Sublime 16th anniversary bourbon-barreled celebrator combines maple-smoked molasses sapping and dark-roasted chocolate malting with dark-fruited brandy wining. Sweet whiskey tone drapes ancillary coconut-toasted almond, pecan, vanilla and toffee illusions as well as black cherry, blackberry, raisin and prune snips. Gooey anise aftertaste picks up medicinal cough syrup astringency.
Baffling full-bodied cream stout never fully defined. Oily hop-charred bittering ransacks dark-roasted brown chocolate sweetness and lactic milk sugaring. Muddled stove-burnt coffee, Baker’s chocolate, cocoa powder, bruised black cherry, bourbon and anise undertones never penetrate the dirty mocha surface.
Cloying artificial sugaring disrupts natural blackberry juicing of grape soda-like malt beverage with pink-headed ruby magenta hue. Phenol hop astringency disrupts gunky blackberry jam, purple grape, raspberry, strawberry and black currant undertones to nasty corn syrupy bottom.
Draught-only Belgian tripel brings Fuggle-hopped dryness to sugary pilsner malting, mingling orange oiled musk and peppery lemon rot bittering with contrasting banana-clove sweetness. Heightened 10% alcohol splurge provides buttered rum waver. Authentic Trappist yeast funk inspired by Westmalle Tripel and Victory Golden Monkey works well for herbal-fruited overlay.
