Maple-sapped burnt caramel sweetness contrasts dry black patent malting as figgy date, desiccated prune and dry burgundy illusions flutter above brown breaded base. Closer stylishly to a mocha-dried dark lager than a more robust Baltic Porter.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, dark-roast coffee bittering gains wood-smoked Blackstrap molasses tarring, blackened hop char and debittered Black malting to contrast less prominent maple oats-sweetened chocolate gunk and licoricey anise respite.
On tap at Taphouse 15, luxurious Baltic porter brings cherrywood-smoked chocolate malting to the fore as molasses coffee, glazed hazelnut, espresso and cappuccino niceties glide by. At the finish, burnt wood tones amplify hop-charred bittering countered by dark chocolate spicing.
On tap at Cloverleaf, casual coffee-roasted dark chocolate entry picks up tobacco-stained hop char, raw molasses bittering and earthen walnut sear, leaving understated granola-candied Trail Mix on the backend.
On tap at Growler & Gill, lightly smoked dark roast chocolate malting gains wispy dried currant and raisin adjuncts as well as toffee-spiced sweetness to fend off mild hop-charred burnt coffee bittering. Casual hybridized dark ale spinoff entices brown ale, spice ale and holiday stout imbibers.
On tap at Ambulance, cardamom bun-pastry spicing sweetens Columbian coffee roast of hybridized collaboration with Sweden's Dugges. Cardamom-spiced mocha theme enhanced by chocolate mint, dried star anise, sweet orange peel, cumin and cinnamon illusions above dewy peat base.
Rich Polish Baltic Porter brings semi-sweet dark milk chocolate to caramel-burnt molasses sugaring and latent dried fruiting over maple-sapped mocha malting. At the midst, cocoa-dried chocolate resonance picks up dark-roast coffee tones to embitter ashen wood-burnt hop char as recessive prune-raisin-plum conflux and distant pumpernickel, pipe tobacco, toffee, walnut and carob flour illusions soak into the mighty mocha mass.
On tap at Ambulance, richly creamed black chocolate syrup coats anise-spiced blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry tartness while wood-seared hop char strengthens bitter end of bold mocha porter.