On tap at Pompton Craft House, gunky 20th anniversary KBS (Kentucky Barrel Series) variant loads blueberry puree onto dry coffee-stained black chocolate bittering and sweet bourbon vanilla onrush. Fudgy mocha finish never depletes tartly syruped blueberry adjunct of overly ornate fruited dessert stout.
On tap at Taphouse 15, smoothly creamed barrel aged full body brings bittersweet Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla bean plus mild coconut toasting to fudgy brown chocolate base, picking up milk-sugared coffee, espresso and cappuccino illusions as well as bourbonized black cherry, prune and plum daubs. Lusciously silken mocha vanilla finish resonates.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, lusciously rich breakfast stout drapes thick sugar maple syrup over creamy milk-sugared coffee tones. Sappy molasses continuance picks up sappy cedar-burnt dark chocolate sweetness as well as pancake batter, creme brulee, fudged brownie, lava cake, burnt caramel, buttercrunch toffee, Nutella mousse and cappuccino illusions. Perfect wakeup elixir makes delightful treacly dessert confection.
Bittersweet cacao nibs provide dark chocolate entry rallying past hop-charred nuttiness, Blackstrap molasses bittering and dark toffee scamper. Tertiary black grape tartness, anise spicing and seared wood nuances complete fair ’22-introduced stout.
On tap at Pompton Craft House, variant Imperial Stout semi-successfully blends molasses rye, Madagascar vanilla bean and coconut into debittered and black chocolate malting. Mild milk-sugared coffee tones, caramelized Maris Otter malts and maple syruping add latent sweetness to expansive Imperial derivation.
Luxurious ’22 holiday stout brings massive nuttiness to fudgy dark chocolate creaming. Sweet bourbon pecan and toasted coconut-marshmallow adjuncts surge alongside chewy cacao nibs resilience. Silken smooth mocha nuttiness gains vanilla creme brulee resonance as well as tertiary hazelnut-pasted maple oats sugaring and teasing black cherry, raisin and prune illusions.
Well integrated 3rd anniversary stout springs ancho chili peppering upon bittersweet dark chocolate and vanilla bean insistence. Alongside the moderate ancho heat, bitter Blackstrap molasses drapes wood-burnt hop char and mild pine tarring enveloping cinnamon-barked mocha stead. Distant Peppermint Patty candy, chocolate-covered cherry and molasses oatmeal cookie illusions waver.
On tap at Ambulance, fulsome bourbon barrel aged stout blends brown chocolate sweetness with less prominent peanut buttering for Reese’s candy bar knockoff. Creamy chocolate resilience gains dry bourbon and sweet whiskey tones, picking up mild black peppering. There’s even a slight chocolate chip cookie nip.
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, rye-like dark wheat influence pervades Scottish heavy yeast fermenting as soily hop-charred peat pervades roasted black chocolate residue securing lightly soured black cherry and black grape tartness plus dry burgundy swerve. Offbeat Imperial Stout for probing dark ale fans.
On tap at Taphouse 15, creamy dark chocolate bittering and black coffee remnant drape wood-burnt hop char as ashen nuttiness ensues over polite Blackstrap molasses-tinged flaked oats base.
On tap at The Helm, charming milk-sugared Cinnamon Crunch cereal knockoff with lightly creamed vanilla coffee stead sweetened further by caramelized dark chocolate. Try in lieu of a pastry for breakfast. In the can, lovely cinnamon cereal sendup soaked up by dark chocolate-coffee scrum, picking up fudged toffee, vanilla cream, maple syrup, banana chip and peppermint illusions.
On tap at Taphouse 15, luxurious Version 3 of ever-evolving Imperial Stout. Sweet chocolate syrup tops coconut-toasted candied pecan confection, hazelnut coffee caramelization and vanilla-beaned cocoa nibs bittering of richly well-integrated nutty mocha nightcap.
