On tap at Plank Pizza, worthy collaboration uniting Jersey City’s Departed Soles with Linden’s nearby 201 Ton utilizes “gingerbread maple syrup” to enhance bittersweet Madagascar vanilla bean adjunct as well as creamy molasses-sugared chocolate malting. Smooth dewy peat earthiness and tertiary cocoa-cinnamon illusions stay below.
On tap at Plank Pizza, Jersey City brewer hooked up with local ModCup Coffee to make mild milk stout with midrange cold-brewed coffee roast upending bittersweet black chocolate complement and dark-roast nut remnant. Lightly creamed mocha nut char at finish reminiscent of dry Irish stout. In the can, mild coffee bean roast, dry espresso sashay, distant nuttiness and tarry black licorice licks define light-bodied collaboration.
On tap at Plank Pizza, easygoing light-bodied kolsch spreads cotton-candied lemon meringue tartness, tingly spiced mandarin orange sentiments and mild pear snips across polite gluten-free sorghum base.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, legit gluten-free dry body takes on Cascadian Black Ale style with relative success. Designed to taste like a “Black & Tan shaken up,” robust ebony-hued Jerseyite layers charcoaled medium-roast coffee bittering atop hop-charred black grape, pineapple and grapefruit illusions. Resinous pine tones deepen the bitter end.
