Luxurious whiskeyed chocolate nightcap soaks cocoa nibs, vanilla beans, cinnamon and ancho chili peppering with 15-month barrel-aged Pedro Ximenez sherry and Basil Hayden bourbon. Fudgy brown chocolate syruping greets caramelized whiskey sweetness, bourbon vanilla spicing and mild chili burn, picking up spunky dried fruiting and maple-glazed pecan nuttiness over peaty rye surface. Superb!
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WICO STREET FATALITY BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT BLEND 2
Bold barrel aged Imperial Stout conditioned on vanilla beans and blending French oak red wine with Basil Haden double oak and Heaven Hill bourbon oak. Sweet bourbon whiskey warmth serenades vanilla bean bittering contrasting brown chocolate-spiced sweetness and fruitful Sangria wining. Lusciously ‘spirited’ vanilla-chocolate dessert nightcap.
WICO STREET FATALITY BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT BLEND 4
Robustly rich stout variant blended in rye whiskey, sherry and herbal liqueurish fernet barrels with bourbon vanilla ice cream, salted caramel and espresso coffee bean adjuncts. Stupendous full body lets sweet bourbon vanilla spicing and caramelized whiskey tones get lathered in fudgy Hershey’s brown chocolate syrup topped by thick Graham Crackered chocolate pudding crust. In the recess, sticky anise, chewy marshmallow, nutty chicory coffee, hazelnut paste, cinnamon toast, dark cherry and brown raisin illusions emerge alongside sherry, burgundy and pinot noir wining to deepen its spiritedly fireside bourbon vanilla-chocolate warmth. Mighty decadence!
WICO STREET FATALITY BARREL AGED IMPERIAL STOUT BLEND 5
Luxurious barrel aged stout given 15 months in French oak red wine vat then splendidly blended with rye whiskey and Heaven Hell bourbon and finally conditioned on cocoa nibs. Sweet bourbon entry gains syrupy brown chocolate sugaring and rummy whiskey splendor plus latent bruised black cherry, prune and fig influence.
WICO STREET BEER CO.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Alongside Checkerspot, M8, Diamondback and Pickett, WICO STREET BREWING CO. is another upstart brewery in close proximity to the Baltimore stadiums. Opened November ’22 in the Industrial red brick section of Pigtown at the vintage Wicomino building, Wico Street’s cement-floored, high ceilinged, 4,200 square-foot pub features spiffy cartooned wall paintings, pinball games and a 10-seat L-shaped bar alongside several round tables and a few wooden benches near the right side tanks.
Experienced brewmaster, Jordan Mc Graw, spent time at nearby Columbia’s Hysteria and Baltimore’s Pratt Street Alehouse and DuClaw after learning the art of brewing at Myrtle Beach’s Liberty Tap Room. Creating a diverse array of stylish brews, Mc Graw (along with his partnered cousin, Mike Richardson) will craft more sour ale variations in the future.
In January ’24, my wife and I toured M8, Diamondback and, in between, Wico Street on a snowy Sunday afternoon.
Labeled ‘yellow fizzy beer,’ Steel American Lager, plied sweet corn and rice to musky Galena hop herbage with a mild whiskey back.
Dewy Extra Special Bitter-like mossing met herbal Hallertau/Tettnanger hops and caramelized Vienna-malted chocolate whims for sessionable helles lager, Hella Steez.
Dry New England pale ale, The Price Is Always Right, let lemony orange-peeled grapefruit tanginess pickup mild guava souring and resinous pine sliver over mild caramel malting.
Sunny lemony grapefruit-sugared orange peel sweetness and peachy pineapple tanginess led pillowy soft-toned Yeah Dude Kinda Hazy IPA, leaving slight herbal pining on the lightly creamed oated wheat spine.
Chameleonic fruited sour ale, But Different, sunk milk sugared white chocolate into tart lemon liming, white peachy grapefruit tanginess, salted guava-lychee spree, redcurrant tartness and strawberry rhubarb licks.
Unique oak foeder-aged Gabriel The Younger, a conditioned Vienna lager, plugged oak-toasted rye and whiskey tones plus wildflower honeyed botanicals into red wined vanilla tannins.
Honey-roasted oats flaking contrasted smoky Blackstrap molasses-embittered dark-roast cocoa beaning for ashen hop-charred Imperial Stout, Game Over, leaving sticky anise remnant.
Interesting 12.5% ABV nightcap, Fatality: Blend 4, got soaked in rye, whiskey and herbal-spiced fernet barrels, retaining luxurious bourbon vanilla sweetness, creamy brown chocolate goodness, caramelized whiskey tones and coffee beaned espresso bittering.