Great Notion Brewing BBA 6 PM (2025)

BBA 6 PM (2025)

 

Great Notion Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
7.79
ABV: 14.4% IBU: - Ticks: 4
BBA 6 PM is an Imperial Stout aged in Elijah Craig Bourbon barrels for 36 months. For this project we finished 6 PM with several vanilla bean varieties from around the globe including Peruvian Pompona, Guatemalan Cribbiana, Thai Planifolia, and Comorian Planifolia.
 

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8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Dark brown. No head. The aroma is massive vanilla. On the palate, it comes across somewhat hot, with a lot of vanilla and of course some sticky stuff underneath. The stout character is heavy on the chocolate, which gives it kind of an Oreo cookie vibe, or at least a bourbon-barrel aged Oreo cookie. The body is rich, the finish sweet and warming. There’s plenty of bitterness to lend support as well.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2025 at 04:27


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8.8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

500ml @ Ryan's shared with Josh.
Aroma: heavy, sweet, nice vanilla, some chocolate and American oak, somewhat like a chcocolate cookie notes.
Taste: along the same lines, viscous, moderately to highly sweet, some toasted barrel, chcocolate, and nicely balanced vanilla.
Overall: very good.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2025 at 02:49


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from 500mL bottle. Very dark brown with almost no beige head. Lots of nice vanilla and feint chocolate on the nose. On the taste, the vanilla is quite floral with underlying bourbon barrels. Quite nice.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2025 at 02:45


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

500mL bottle, pours jet black with a small light brown head. Aroma is rich, with intense vanilla beans, big bourbon barrels, dark sugars, and some marshmallow. Flavour is rich and complex as hell, with huge bourbon, lovely dark sugars, vanilla beans, and some marshmallow. Huge vanilla and deep bourbon. Endless complexity. Beauty.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2025 at 08:08