Lusciously creamy charcoal-seared hop-roasted baltic porter (imbibed at Manhattan’s d.b.a. on tap). Coffee ground piquancy embitters lactic black chocolate rampage and dry espresso surge. Ripe prune-plum-cherry distention accrues teasing vanilla sweetness to rich, assertive mocha finish.

Nutty medium-bodied ruby-browned Baltic-styled porter with bittersweet black chocolate upsurge, chewy caramel nougat center, and roasted hop-charred hazelnut-cashew-cola-walnut clip informing creamy maltose saunter. Illusions of stove-burnt coffee, bitter espresso, and anise register above dried prune-fig souring ’til cocoa-chalked lactose finish thaws to polite bourbon whir.

Robust porter pours thick like full-bodied stout, as surfeit black chocolate creaminess, tart purple grape esters and raisin-browned prune usurp contrasting dry coffee sourness. Toasted hop sharpness extend frothy mocha richness. Mild hazelnut illusions sunk deep into complex wintry-spiced retreat. On second passing ’15: cocoa-dried chocolate richness gains sedate black licorice, bourbon and dark cherry illusions to counter distant hop-charred tobacco chaw bittering.

Tributary champagne-bottled jet black Baltic porter celebrates gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson. On tap, bittersweet cocoa-powdered dark chocolate coarseness befits tar-like burnt coffee bittering topping smoked molasses malting, dry Cascade hop roast, and charred bark recess of syrupy 9.2% alcohol sinew. In 12 ounce bottle, slick hop-oiled coffee roast, astringent caramel-chocolate malting, and nutty citric reminder falter just a tad, lowering appeal.

Enthusiastic brown-bodied tan-headed stout porter catapulted by creamy chocolate richness, burnt caramel sweetness, and sugar malt titillation. Sour mocha juxtaposition provides further complexity to thick milkshake finish and off-dry mocha-peat aftertaste of tremendously frothy full-bodied dessert treasure.

Originally drank #58 and #210 of this sophisticated (formerly limited edition) bone-dry porter. Soured cranberry bean tartness, punctual raisin-fig conflux, and syrupy mocha malt residue overtake sinewy chocolate caking, settling to barleywine finish. Coffee undertones gain authority when given a few minutes to breathe in a glass. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Exemplary black-bodied salami-wafted rauchbier-like baltic porter integrates bourbon-casked whiskey whir with frothy mocha tendencies. Chewy milk chocolate creaminess invades lactic frontage. Ancillary powdered cocoa, Blackstrap molasses and caramelized vanilla illusions seep into char-hopped hazelnut-macadamia-cashew clout as earthen moss bottom forms. Freshly crushed cherries absorb ‘several hardwood’ notions of cedar, hickory and oak. Anise hints deepen its backend bitterness. A triumphant lactose-laden slow sipper.

On tap, lactose-aided brown chocolate gush showers dried cherry and red grape adjuncts before burgundy and rum raisin midst receives teasing walnut remnant informing bittersweet mocha finish. Vanilla seed illusion deepens mocha resilience.