On tap at Ambulance, inventive Valentine’s Day Box of Chocolates with floral-perfumed rose waft lets bittersweet black chocolate roast pick up bruised black cherry tartness. Fine creamy dessert treat for all chocolate lovers.
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CARTON UNJUNCT STOUT
On tap at Poor Henry’s, bustling full-bodied dark ale gains dark-roast coffee edge over molasses-dried black chocolate syruping, bittersweet dark-fruited sanctuary and teasing vanilla extraction. Ashen wood char and mild plasticine grouting skew its base while tertiary bourbon, black cherry and blackberry nuances run amok alongside latent cola-hazelnut hints.
CARTON COSMONAUT RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Poor Henry’s, sinister Russian Imperial distorts sweet brown chocolate setting with hop-charred grain roast and dry-spiced vanilla sweetener for ‘freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream’ sedation. Mild black-malted mocha smokiness, teasing strawberry nip and distant blackberry rip fortify soy-sauced coffee backdrop. Not sure everything’s balanced, but it sure is uniquely qualified to satisfy bolder dark ale imbibers.
CARTON TO WONG BREW, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! SMOKED MILK PORTER
On tap at Poor Henry’s, mild (4.5% ABV) milk-soured porter brings light-roast smoked coffee grounds to mild lactic yogurt acidity, picking up lemony espresso respite. Sour black grape and black cherry tartness gain vinous white wining over polite black pepper spicing at the charred mocha finish.
CARTON SAKURA CHERRY BLOSSOM SALTED SOUR ALE
On tap at Poor Henry’s, delicate floral-bound cherry blossom tartness and rice-dried salted spicing defeat ‘languid summer doldrums’ with lightly soured citric acidity as sour raspberry, oaken cherry and bitter lemon rind coerce balmy sea salting of light-bodied gose.
CARTON HARVEST 2016 EKUANOT
On tap at Taphouse 15, rye-spiced moderation gains dry-hopped lemon bittering as wavered floral-perfumed herbal tones drape the pale malt base. Only a touch of rye peaks thru the citric-herbed finish.
CARTON ALL ORANGE EVERYTHING
On tap at Ambulance, approachable (despite mighty 10% ABV) Imperial IPA with zesty orange peel perfuming and easygoing mango-passionfruit-tangerine tang gains astringent pine musk as wispy grain alcohol burn soothes polite citric finish. Mandarina Bavaria hop profile brings latent blood orange, mandarin orange and clementine influence to the surface.
CARTON EDEN
On tap at River Of Beer, simple moderation works well as a low-alcohol table beer, but its jasmine-flowered grains of paradise adjunct loses luster as white-peppered lemon wisp tingles the tongue ever so gently above light pale malt spicing.
CARTON BREWING DOES IT AGAIN WITH CHURRO FLAVORED ELIXIR AND WEEDY BLUNT KNOCKOFF
CARTON CAFE Y CHURRO
On tap at Ambulance, brewers’ creamy milk-sugared Regular Coffee (an extremely popular and iconic Jersey-based cream ale) receives fried dough pastry treatment as vanilla-sweetened cinnamon spicing pervades light-roast coffee bittering. Subsidiary espresso, cappuccino, coconut milk, caramel latte and mochaccino hints favorably affect lusty cinnamon vanilla pancaking. Perfect dessert treat in lieu of a sugar-glazed doughnut.
CARTON GRAPE SWISHER
On tap at Plank Pizza, uniquely hybridized rauchbier takes cannabis-derived blunt cigar flavoring to a new level. Dark-roasted mocha malting drapes dry Concord grape adjunct, tobacco-roasted peat smokiness and hash-oiled lupulin musk. Oak-smoked wheat influence, dank earthen soiling and charred walnut sear add depth.
CARTON COMMA BLACK SAISON
On tap at Copper Mine, unique black-peppered saison loads Indian accents atop black patent malts, winey citric herbage and fern-like pine nut hints for semi-dry medium-full body. French saison yeast brings out spicy cumin, curry and cinnamon accents. Well-hidden 10.2% ABV allows varied flavor profile to fully form.