Richly creamed Italian cookie-inspired pastry stout perfectly combines pureed raspberry, honeyed almond, cocoa and vanilla adjuncts as ancillary red grape, black cherry and blackberry illusions heighten lively dried fruitiness draping vanilla-frosted chocolate caking.
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VARITAGE WASHINGTON ST. RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE STOUT
Partnering with nearby Anthony’s Cheesecakes, flurried raspberry puree tartness engages rich vanilla creaming and pastry-like chocolate caking of confectionery milk stout. Persistent raspberry, vanilla and milk chocolate sweetness reaches honeyed Graham Cracker base.
NEW HOLLAND DRAGON’S MILK RESERVE: RASPBERRY HIBISCUS BOURBON-AGED STOUT
On tap at Taphouse 15, light bourbon wisp sweetens tart raspberry hibiscus adjunct reaching creamy dark chocolate center and mild nut-charred coffee snip over earthy truffle setting. Mild bourbon vanilla sway may be underwhelming but candied raspberry chocolate sugaring truly engages fine dessert treat.
GLENMERE WICKED WITCH
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, deciduous black raspberry-infused black malted Imperial Stout retains dry bittering as dark-roasted black chocolate malting picks up charcoal-stained wood sear and charred walnut scamper, causing black raspberry tartness to fade early.
ICARUS BRUNCH HARD: THE FRENCH TOAST STORY IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, wayward French Toast-inspired raspberry stout with maple syrup and cinnamon adjuncts completely lacquered by rich dark chocolate bittering. But pastry-like French Toast expectancy and deadened cinnamon spicing fade below tart raspberry chocolate caking.
SIXPOINT BARREL-AGED BIG RASPY IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, salty Berliner Weisse-affected raspberry tartness puckers bitter black chocolate malting and tannic Widow Jane Bourbon subtlety, retaining lactic-soured mocha response. Mild oaken bourbon tangent gains subtle port-burgundy wisps at sour raspberry pureed smoked chocolate finish.
LEFT HAND RASPBERRY MILK STOUT
Tart raspberry souring draped immediately by bittersweet black chocolate syruping, retaining ashen walnut-seared hop char. Ancillary coffee roast enjoins wavered cola nut, cocoa nibs and black cherry illusions lost in aridly phenol setting that rids any mocha creaminess.
BRADLEY WE PLAYING (RASPBERRY AND CHOCOLATE)
On tap at Poor Henry’s, softly creamed lactobacillus-soured stout collides lemon-oiled raspberry puree tartness with bitter cocoa-nibbed dark chocolate malting. But the sour raspberry rasp never quite congeals with its mighty mocha romp or latent vanilla bean murk.
DISTRICT 96 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RASPBERRY IMPERIAL STOUT
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, dry soft-toned stout layers creamy vanilla-beaned black chocolate syrup atop more prominent tart raspberry adjunct. Dewy midst gains mocha-bound black cherry, blackberry and boysenberry notions.
TERRAPIN RASPBERRY TRUFFLE WAKE-N-BAKE COFFEE OATMEAL IMPERIAL STOUT – 2017
Luxurious fresh-brewed coffee entry superseded by tart raspberry pureeing for rich (9.4% ABV) Wake-N-Bake variation. Dark chocolate insistence and liquid cacao adjunct catch up to hop-charred coffee bittering midway, coalescing with bittersweet raspberry truffle scheme at fulsome Black Forest cake finish.
CHATHAM RASPBERRY WHEAT
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, tartly bittersweet sour-candied raspberry rasp fades above frail white wheat base. Dulled-out raspberry tartness gets soapy and murkily lemon-cranberried souring falters beneath.
DEFIANT RUGBURN CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY STOUT
On tap at Defiant, bittersweet dark chocolate malting picks up tartly phenolic strawberry essence that slowly fades over dry hop-charred bittering. Sweet ‘n sour raspberry aspect allows casual blueberry-boysenberry illusions to enter the fray, but its mighty dark chocolate essence overrides pureed berries.