Confectionery peanut buttered TastyKake variant starts with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup essence given spongy chocolate-caked maple sapping, burnt caramel nuttiness, candied toffee sugaring and dried cherry tartness, but oily hop residue works against luxurious pastry goodness.
Sweet vanilla creaming lightens alongside powder-sugared Cinnamon Swirl Pound Caking of golden strawed pastry knockoff. Tertiary vanilla cake, bundt cake, amaretti cookie, creme brulee, cinnamon babka and creamed coffee illusions flutter.
Efficient small-batch ’23 IPA retains soothingly soft-toned orange blossom honeyed citrus zing to counter musky dark-roast hop bittering. At the midst, dry pine-toned grapefruit and orange rind bittering contrasts pineapple-candied peach tang above caramel malt base.
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, holiday-spiced Golden Monk variant saddles its stylish candi-sugared plum, fig and raisin conflux, white-peppered white wining and modest fungi-cellared Belgian yeast with Christmastime brown-sugared cinnamon and nutmeg seasoning and spritzy cranberry-soured orange peel zesting for a somewhat boozy gingerbread cookie-like Belgian strong ale.
Smooth cold-brewed stout serves milk-sugared dark roast coffee tones to coarse hop-charred nuttiness and toasty barley-oats spine. Creamy café latte continuance gains mild vanilla and chocolate sweetness.
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, cloyingly effervescent lemonade-related radler pleases sugary summertime thirsts, but gets redundant flavorwise. Light ginger herbage seeps thru lemon-candied hop oiling (and lagered yeast) alongside syrupy pineapple, peach and grapefruit snips as frothy vanilla head recedes, leaving lots of tart lemonade sugaring.
On tap at Plank Pizza, ‘pillowy,’ dry-hopped, hazy New England-styled IPA brings juniper-spiced orange rind bittering to the fore above creamily lactic oats-wheat base without getting overbearingly harsh. Light cologne waft seeps into lemony orange-pineapple-grapefruit triage and laidback coniferous fern snip.
On tap at Morris Tap & Grill, aggressive dry-hopped medium body offers yellow grapefruit-saddled orange, tangerine, peach and apricot tang to resinous piney hop astringency and herbal-spiced snips. Fresh-watered cleanliness provides glossy smoothness to soft-tongued citrus finish.
Elusive clear golden pale lager with modest intentions. Mildly spiced lemondrop spritz tingles cereal grained carapils malting and alkaline astringency. Sedate Mosaic-Cascade-Citra-Chinook hop influence checkmarks unspecific citric-spiced neutrality.
On tap at Growler & Gill, tartly tangy blood orange adjunct receives daintily sweet agave syruping above sugared pale malts. Polite piney hop bittering and candied grapefruit-tangerine subtleties complement blood orange misting.
“Celebratory” winterized wheat ale brings sweet hefeweizen-like banana, bubblegum, clove and coriander template to lightly lingered white-peppered citric hop bittering and mild herbal notions over tempered torrified wheat base. Zesty orange-peeled lemon spritz picks up sugary vanilla creaming and holiday-spirited nutmeg niche to boost spicy banana luster.
Duping a classic German confection with mixed results, pithy black cherry influence never takes hold as equally bittersweet dark roast chocolate malting gets mired by distractingly astringent oily hop resin. Needs more focused Black Forest Cake likeness. Dried cherry blurt gains subtle cocoa, prune and grape wisps.
