On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, barrel-aged applewood-smoked porter drapes rummy maple molasses creaming atop oaken vanilla-daubed dark chocolate as well as bourbon-dried brandy, port and sherry wining plus bruised black cherry sweetness – hiding most of its massive 16.6% ABV. In the midst, chocolate pudding-skinned surface and red-wined chocolate truffle scuttle counters wood-burnt, dark-roast hop char.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, boastful Greatest Of All Time jargon set aside, this one’s a tad too staid. Creamy black chocolate bittering, soothing milked coffee serenade and sweet molasses oats base pickup mild chocolate cookie nuance as slight peanut, hazelnut and walnut illusions reach the surface. But it’s less creamy, less mocha enriched and less nutty than bigger oatmeal stout’s by the finish.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, striking NEIPA plies lemony grapefruit, orange and pineapple tanginess plus mild guava-gooseberry-dragonfruit souring to lightly frothed vanilla-creamed oated wheat base. At the midst, soft-toned crayon waxed tropical fruiting gains floral-daubed cannabis oiling.
On tap at Taphouse 15, experimental multi-oat and spelt grained India Pale Ale lets light vanilla creaming saturate floral citrus spicing. Mild grapefruit-sugared orange and tangerine tang meets lime-salted mango and guava spritz, lemon meringue tartness and tannic white grape esters, leaving clean citric vodka licks on the tail end.
Dry grapefruit peel, sweet pineapple tang and candied orange tartness pickup dank piney hop resin, light floral spicing and misty passionfruit-guava snips above slightly vanilla creamed pale malting of Foley flagship. Durable piney citrus finish lingers.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, vibrant juicy fruited collab with Vermont’s Prohibition Pig. Expansive flavor profile merges orange peel-sweetened tangelo, tangerine and white grapefruit zesting, sour white grape tannins, pineapple tanginess and mango tartness while lightly creamed vanilla froth contrasts mild salted herbage.
On tap at Taphouse 15, zestful double dry-hopped IPA lets perfumed citrus spicing pervade mild oated wheat base. Bitter yellow grapefruit-peeled lemon liming, white grape esters, salted mango-pineapple tang and peachy papaya tease (from expressive Citra-Nelson Sauvin hops) brighten alongside gentle piney Simcoe hop dryness.
Brisk sunshiny tropical fruiting blissfully settles alongside floral perfumed sweetness contrasting modest herbal pining. Bittersweet grapefruit-peeled orange zesting, polite lemon liming and peachy pineapple-mango tang glide above lightly creamed oated wheat base of terrific New England-styled pale ale (with definite sessionable IPA aspirations).
Yet another lovely piney fruited pale ale with high IPA aspirations. Subdued lemony orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and mango zesting rivals Nelson Sauvin-hopped gooseberry/guava souring, Strata-hopped cannabis resin and lightly salted herbage above dry pale malting.
Puckering fruited tartness and lingered tannic acidity bring the funk to complex fouder-aged sour ale. Tartly salted raspberry, plum and cherry adjuncts provide rigid sour edge to candied Sweet-Tart powdering. Ascending white grape vinegaring, hard cider sharpness and oaken cherry desiccation outdo bittersweet faux-Framboise lambic raspberry juicing.
Roasted pumpkin salting and earthen butternut squash edge out docile pumpkin pie spicing as herbal ginger minting, zesty lemon spritz and slight wood varnish outlast lightly brown-sugared nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, clove and star anise seasoning above modest crystal malted wheat base.
Fuzzy lemon spritz blurs blackberry adjunct and salty juniper-tipped hibiscus flowering as brisk piney citric IPA-like bittering gathers above delicate white wheat base. Crisply clean but a tad nebulous stylistically.
