Richly creamed dark chocolate coats bittersweet vanilla beaning as well as hop-charred nuttiness and burnt wood tones of robust nightcap. Tarry mouthfeel cakes thick vanilla-chocolate residue to the tongue.
BIG UGLY TWENTY TWO VANILLA PORTER
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BOLERO SNORT DON’T TELL JASON IT’S ANOTHER DARK LAGER BALTIC PORTER
Maple-sapped burnt caramel sweetness contrasts dry black patent malting as figgy date, desiccated prune and dry burgundy illusions flutter above brown breaded base. Closer stylishly to a mocha-dried dark lager than a more robust Baltic Porter.
OEC COOLSHIP LAGER BLACK
Dry dark lager with dark-roast barley and dark-roast chocolate and earth-scorched Noble hops given Czech lager yeast base. Beneath the surface, sharp walnut, Brazil nut and cola nut respite snags smoky rye enticement and black coffee smudge.
EVIL TWIN NYC THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF OPERATING A BUSINESS STRONG DARK ALE
Merging caramelized whiskey, ESB-like peated Scotch and figgy cherry-plum tartness above brown chocolate roast. Strong dark ale (with hidden 12.5% ABV) retains dewy mocha resonance, picking up light carob, pipe tobacco and rum-dipped cigar illusions.
KAGUA ROUGE
Quirky Japanese-styled Belgian dark strong ale combines mellow yuzu lemon zesting with citric sansho peppering plus cologne-perfumed clove, nutmeg and ginger spicing over palm-sugared wheat base. Latent light brown tea bittering caresses slight mandarin orange tease.
AECHT SCHLENFERLA WEICHSEL
Utilizing cherrywood instead of rauchbier-derived beechwood gives peaty smoked German its fiery hickory sear that fizzles as snappy lemon spritz prickles brown-sugared cocoa malting contrasting ancillary black peppered herbage slipping into salami-smoked cured meat zone.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN KRAMPUSZ
“Harmonious mulling spices” sweeten winning winter ale. Spiked by cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and allspice, snazzy Christmastime celebrater (with hidden 8.2% ABV) obtains tertiary dried fruiting and mild cola nuttiness atop powdery cocoa base.
BACK BAY WITCH OF PUNGO PUMPKIN ALE
Mild pumpkin spicing nearly pushed aside by lemony ginger snap and butternut squash earthiness. Needs more prevalent cinnamon, clove, allspice and nutmeg seasoning by the bland gourd finish.
SOUTHERN TIER CHESTNUT PRALINE IMPERIAL ALE
Fascinatingly resonant confectionery winter warmer regales brown-buttered cake battering for praline-candied chestnut roast and caramelized pecan glaze. Rummy nutmeg swirl adds further Christmastime luster as creamed coffee, vanilla custard, creme brulee, cinnamon toast, cream soda and butterscotch niceties receive sprinkled powdered sugaring for luxurious 8.6% ABV nightcap.
MORTALIS HYDRA ZOMBIE
Slushy Smoothie lets chewy marshmallow vanilla sugaring thicken tart raspberry, boysenberry and blackcurrant adjuncts and lightly vinous purple grape tannins. Sangria-like fruitiness surges as jellied red grape jam burrows thru pureed raspberry-boysenberry frontage given slight perfumed musk for richly creamed fruited pastry dessert.
IMPRINT TRAINING DAY SCHMOOJEE SOUR ALE
Slurry blackberry and raspberry pureeing plies jellied sweetness to lactic chocolate-syruped vanilla ice cream base. Thick marshmallow fluff further sweetens fruited pop alternative.
TIMBER ALES SLEEPLESS SKYLINES NEIPA
Limey guava-gooseberry bittering and lemon verbena herbage contrast peachy tangerine tang, picking up earthen compost waft for slightly offbeat, hazily yellowed, Citra-Mosaic-hopped NEIPA – leaving stylish orange-peeled grapefruit zesting and resinous pine in the dust.
