On tap at Plank Pizza, easygoing dark ale brings soft-watered dark chocolate/ black patent malting to char-coaled black cherry and purple grape tartness. Subsidiary port, cocoa and raw molasses illusions fill out soft-watered Baltic porter-leaning oatmeal stout.
On tap at Plank Pizza, strong black coffee roast (courtesy of Hasbrouck Heights’ Koffe Wagon) penetrates oats-charred hop bittering and black chocolate malting with necessary vigor and determination. In the can, mildly creamed Ethiopian-based Sidamo coffee bean roast never fades. Try in lieu of java.
On cask at Brew City Grill, soft-toned dry stout retains bittersweet oats-charred black chocolate theme atop subtle hop char, picking up casual cocoa, vanilla and coffee undertones.
Another fascinating Yeti! This time it’s a soothing Imperial Stout with ‘small’ raisin adjunct providing dried fruited complement to profound dark-roasted mocha malt influence and rolled oats sugaring. Gooey dark chocolate center enriches Nescafe instant coffee, powdered cocoa and cacao nibs illusions.
On tap at Plank Pizza, robust dry stout loads creamy black chocolate richness and espresso-milked cocoa chalking atop oats-roasted burnt caramel sweetness to contrast hop-charred wood resin. Ancillary chocolate truffle, light-roast coffee, fudgy vanilla, black cherry, molasses, cola nut and hazelnut illusions complete the score.
Mildly creamed nitro-injected oatmeal stout offers silken coffee-roasted milk chocolate soothe to oats-honeyed Cafe Vanilla Porter appeasement and mellowly caramelized Chestnut Porter nuttiness. Subsidiary vanilla, chestnut, espresso, caffè latte and macchiato illusions fade quickly.
On tap at One Mile House, delectable Imperial-styled oatmeal stout brings brown chocolate spicing and dark-roasted mocha malting to molasses-sugared oatmeal retreat. Sweet toffee midst aids chocolate-cocoa conflux as subsidiary black cherry, black licorice, vanilla, coconut and espresso notions add extra intrigue.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, 2015 nitro version of famous dark ale retains remarkable Guinness Stout-like nutty mocha creaminess. Mild black chocolate-informed coffee resonance gently flows into soft oats-flaked hop char, leaving peanut-shelled walnut remnant at mocha latte finish.
On tap at Ambulance, smoothly sweet and generously creamy dessert treat tastes like a Sugar Daddy candy bar. Sugary toffee, brown chocolate, syrupy molasses, burnt caramel and cookie dough illusions reach chewy nougat center as mild peat-smoked hop roast contrasts sugary oats-flaked mocha malting. Subsidiary light-roast coffee, vanilla, cocoa, espresso and bourbon illusions add resiliency.
On tap at Blue Ribbon Tavern, creamy vanilla bean version of fabulous dark ale spreads dark-roasted mocha malting across molasses-sugared flaked oats. Bittersweet vanilla piquancy deepened by black chocolate influence. Milked coffee, caramel latte, cappuccino, espresso, oatmeal cookie and chocolate chip illusions play superb backup for fine dessert treat.
“Brazen” is an advertising overstatement. Instead, this well-rounded Brit-influenced oatmeal stout maintains a likable dark-roasted mocha malting and oatmeal sugaring above its coarse toasted hop char. Black chocolate, day-old coffee, espresso and peat illusions do the job as backup.
Murkily off-the-beaten-track oats-flaked stout desiccated by sour coffee musk and ashen charcoal tarring. Shrill dark chocolate chalking inundates soy-soured cherry snip and ascending port-bourbon wining. Weird green olive pungency jilts dirty mocha finish.
