Creamy vanilla ice cream sugaring tops guava pureed sherbet milking for frothily sunny golden hazed milkshake IPA. Sweet guava ice creaming gains lemon meringue tartness and key lime pie zesting as soft piney reminder lingers below tangy tropical confection.
MAMARONECK, NEW YORK
In the tony Westchester County town of Mamaroneck, DECADENT ALES opened during June 2016. Connected to the second Half Time Beverage (the firsts’ in Poughkeepsie) in a dark gray brick warehouse just off the center of town, this dual beer threat beer haven may be the most ambitious brewpub/beer store combo in the Northeast.
A rustic gray cement floored, 4,000 square-foot tasting room depot with several community tables, some silver metal 4-seat tables and 12-stooled aluminum bar, Decadent features twenty taps, multiple TV’s and multiple stainless steel brew tanks (stationed behind the bar). There’s an outdoor space beyond the overhead door that includes blue aluminum tables, picnic benches and strewn about beer barrels.
Part of Mamaroneck’s industrial zone renovation, Decadent’s enormous catalogue of Big Beers and traditional styles run the gamut from opulently fruited IPA’s and Sour Ale Smoothies to ambitiously designed stouts.
Duke’s Burger Joint served flatbread pizza, sandwiches, burgers and seafood to go alongside the creative homemade draughts.
My wife and I visited this cavernous pub during a cold Friday afternoon, February ’23.
A brusque German-styled pilsner for the proleteriat, Regular Beer slipped musky maize-dried raw graining into dankly resinous hop herbage and mild vegetal earthiness, perked up by lemon seltzer fizzing.
“Pacific Punch” variant, Peach Apricot Punch IPA, let mild peach-apricot pureeing pick up lemony grapefruit bittering and yogurt-soured marmalade, passionfruit and gooseberry tartness above light Smoothie-like vanilla creaming.
Snazzy dry-hopped hazy IPA, Vega, parlayed slightly embittered orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and mango tanginess plus mild pine lacquer over vanilla-creamed pale malt honeying.
Decadent Imperial Stout, Snowball, put chocolate-fudged Madagascar vanilla beans and toasted coconut sweetness at the reins while caramel latte, marshmallow and cappuccino illusions enriched its honeyed Graham Cracker bottom.
Decadent’s biggest beers made fantastic use of Willett spirits, proving to be intriguingly full-bodied barrel-aged nightcaps.
Chewy chocolate cake dessert, Molten Lava Cake, integrated Willett rye to light chili peppering and toasted cinnamon spicing in a rich maple syrup setting, gaining bourbon-spiced vanilla goodness, black cherry puree tartness and banana sweetness, leaving confectionery chocolate pudding, donut and cookie remnants.
Impressive Imperial Stout (Double Barrel with Vanilla) blended Old Elk and Willett bourbon with Madagascar vanilla in a richly fudged brown chocolate empire, leaving delicately warm burgundy, brandy and port illusions on the mocha vanilla finish.
For equally tranquil Imperial Stout (Willett Bourbon aged with Coffee), milk-sugared Counter Culture coffee settled alongside brown chocolate and vanilla sweetness as mild bruised black cherry, black grape, coconut and hazelnut notions swept thru the decadent libation.
Sticky blueberry-pancaked syruping drapes whipped-creamed pastry dessert. Buttery blueberry pecan glaze coats contrastive juniper-embittered piney hops fortifying mighty citrus souring. Vanilla-topped blueberry pie tartness settles in latently.
Lusciously sweet coconut-toasted vanilla creaming consumes zesty lemon sunshine and light rum spicing of limey Pina Colada takeoff. Its sugary marshmallow center and lemony mango-grapefruit spritz add further luster to tropical dessert cocktail.
Concocting a liquified maple donut out of maple syrup and caramelized sugar, citrus-juiced IPA makes fine vanilla-creamed milkshake IPA dessert fodder. Creamy vanilla sweetness guards zesty lemon-peeled grapefruit and orange tang against mild piney hop bittering, sour lemondrop tartness and herbal lemongrass snip.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, sugary cotton-candied surge countered by lactic yogurt-soured zing as zesty lemon spritz bursts forth. A lovable moderate-medium-bodied sweet-toothed confection.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, sour cherry blossom entry contrasted by vanilla-sugared marshmallow fluff and a slight lemon twist.
On tap at Growler & Gill, combining a lightly salted Pina Colada with a milk-sugared Pineapple Lassi, tropical yogurt-soured summertime moderation leaves lemony orange zest upon tart coconut-pineapple pleasantry and sweet crème de cocoa licks.
Well-designed lactic soured Imperial IPA celebrates sweet-tart blackberry influence with vanilla creamed sugaring nicely contrasting milk-soured yogurt acidity. Its lemon meringue tartness and key lime pie piquancy deepen the blackberry-soured midst, gaining tropical clementine, mango, passionfruit, pineapple and guava wisps and a hint of blueberry along the way.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, swaggeringly hybridized IPA truly knocks off sweet breakfast treat. Powdered sugar glaze seeps into syrupy strawberry-honeyed French Toast splendor, hiding its stylish lemony grapefruit-orange tropicalia beneath the surface. Recommended to sweet-toothed fanatics.
Vivacious dry-hopped hazy-glazed New England-styled IPA collaboration with Bronxville’s Beer Noggin (and brewed at Dorchester Brewing) succeeds as a Hawaiian Island “tropical jubilee.” Juicy orange-peeled pineapple and guava tanginess gains zesty lemon verbena, yellow grapefruit, clementine and mango resilience as brisk Seltzer-like carbolics add sparkle. Lovely fruitful frontage enjoined by crystalline juniper-like gin bite, softly spruce-tipped pine sap, creamy vanilla spicing and finishing resinous hop linger.
