Blunt raspberry puree tartness nearly overwhelms creamy dark chocolate malting, bittersweet cocoa powdering and hop-charred chicory coffee dalliance. Black cherry, raisin and plum illusions deepen impact.
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MAUI ALOHA BAKTUN BELGIAN STOUT
On tap at Max’s, Hawaiian-brewed Belgian Stout gets a tad musty despite assured dark-roasted chocolate opening and bittersweet coffee bean salience. Sugary Belgian yeast soaks up powdered cocoa dusting and mild espresso dalliance. Soapy vanilla-creamed hazelnut, coconut, macadamia and cola illusions never reach fruition. Mild chipotle-peppered cinnamon spicing barely registers and the mocha finish becomes watered down.
SMUTTYNOSE ZINNEKKE BELGIAN-STYLE STOUT
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, bittersweet Belgian stout arouses green coffee beaning and cappuccino-milked creaming with sugar-spiced candi syrup. Modest bourbon barrel aging serenades loud mocha frontage. Hazelnut espresso, chalky cocoa and vanilla fortify dark chocolate interior, melting away some high end coffee tones. In deep recess, banana, cherry and plum nuances reside.
DUPONT MONK’S STOUT
Particularly peculiar soured stout (contentiously listed as a Belgian dark ale) provides cocoa-powdered chocolate chalking to wood-burnt molasses sapping, ashen nuttiness and dingy basement funk. Ancillary chicory, carob and ice coffee illusions and distant lemony tartness fill out mocha finish.
STILLWATER FOLKLORE
Vigorously strong dark ale takes lactic schwarzbier-like maltose on a dried-fruited journey through smoked molasses malts. Incipient cocoa bean bittering receives complementary Belgian-spiced dark chocolate roast over black cherry, currant raisin, plum and fig undertones. Dirty earthen soiling and deep-roasted hop bittering secure rich bottom. On tap at Ambulance Brewhouse, complexities abounded. Belgian yeast-inspired chocolate spicing receives deeper dried fruiting as bruised blackberry, brambleberry and blueberry sugaring contrasts dry port-burgundy wining. Anise, chocolate cake and chocolate-covered cherry illusions seep thru.
SAMUEL ADAMS THIRTEENTH HOUR DARK BELGIAN STOUT
Vigorous ‘Kosmic Mother Funk’ aged in oak barrels overlays sour Belgian yeast funk with dark-fruited rum, bourbon, burgundy, and Courvoisier toxicity as aromatic black pepper fills the air. Chocolate-spiced raisin, plum, fig and dried cherry illusions form at the vanilla-daubed molasses midst while back-tongued cardamom-nutmeg-ginger seasoning reaches a light-roast brown coffee simmer. Advertised ‘oaken’ aspect gets downplayed.
‘T HOFBROUWERIJKE HOFBLUES BELGIAN STOUT
Decisive dark browned full body raises peat-smoked mocha malting and cappuccino coffee creaming above viscous anise motif. Soured Belgian yeast funk picks up surging molasses-soaked dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and vanilla illusions, heightening dried-fruited black cherry, prune, raisin and fig nip. Midriff black currant bittering sidles massive mocha indulgence.