On tap at Ambulance, Lucky Charms breakfast cereal marshmallow fluff serenades vanilla cream-topped brown chocolate, candied maple toffee and tart black cherry. Confectionery milk stout anchored by ascending Black Forest Cake, Dutch cocoa powder, marshmallow chocolate cake and chocolate eclair sweetness.
Lovely milk-sugared coffee creaming picks up dark chocolate bittering and ancillary dried fruiting given slight hop char above maple oats base of bold 11% ABV breakfast stout. Mighty mocha penetration allows latent brandy, rum and whiskey tones as well as dark cherry, raisin and blueberry whims and distant mulling spices to advance.
On tap at Taphouse 15, robust Irish whiskey-aged stout with coffee-roasted dark chocolate frontage and sweet bourbon boozing (13% ABV) reaching treacly molasses oats base. Milk-sugared coffee sweetness sustains while oaken vanilla center caresses tertiary dried cherry, red plum and glazed fig illusions plus brief cinnamon spicing.
Botanical sloe gin-fizzed cocktail spirit too low in the mix to perk up stylishly underwhelming barleywine. From the limited edition “Irish Punch Up Series,” caramelized citrus fruiting glides above biscuity cereal grained base, leaving subliminal orange, tangerine, peach and pineapple illusions to undermine any initial juniper berry bittering. Interesting, but inessential.
On tap at Ambulance, dryer-than-sweet medium-full body shows off subtle complexities with fair accuracy. Casual chocolate vanilla-caked sweetness, mild molasses creaming and milk-sugared coffee tones anchored by dark-roast hop char. Desolate fig and raisin illusions enter the silken mix latently.
On tap at Blind Tiger, indeterminate medium-full body lets toasted coconut adjunct get lost amongst murky caramel-burnt chocolate spicing as well as coffee-burnt cola, hazelnut and walnut sequence. Distant red and purple grape esters waver.
On tap at Growler & Gill, indefinite medium-bodied brown ale brings modest macadamia nuttiness to dry-spiced chocolate roast and lightly charred hop astringency.
