Confusingly indistinct ink black porter closer to banal Schwarzbier. At opening, Russell Stovers chocolate-covered raspberry cream candy essence loses footing to chalky powdered cocoa bittering and musty grape-dried oaken cherry souring. Protruding raspberry puree tartness pervades coarse dry-hopped finish, but funky mildewed vegetal waft and vinous acidity ruin confounding digestif.

Remarkable lactic porter makes excellent dessert fodder. Vanilla bean bittering absorbs sweet brown chocolate, cappuccino, coconut, creme de cocoa and molasses-toffee scintillation. Peat-smoked roasted hop char stabilizes anise, hazelnut, cookie dough and cherry puree illusions. At maple malt finish, casual bourbon-sherry whim detected. On tap, initial vanilla-mocha intensity receives whimsical dried fruiting, watering down burnt caramel malting a tad.