Skeleton Key
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.68
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A Bellwoods take on spiced rum, this imperial stout was aged for a year in rum barrels with a melange of ginger, all spice, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, and juniper berries. What has emerged is a refined, smooth, warming, and lethally delicious spiced stout that’ll induce sharp pangs of nostalgia long after your final bottle is empty. And though it’s our highest alcohol beer to date, you’ll find the beauty is in the balance.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A deep dark stout with a very thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with light coca cola, light mineral notes, a bit old and tired. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, light spices, licorice, alcohol warmth, pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2026
at 21:46
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2025
at 20:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the brewery. One of the darkest, thickest beers I've ever had.. Jet. Black, motor oil, with a medium dark brown head. Dark soy, loads of spices, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and all spice. Earthy, sticky sweet rhum barrel, vanilla, black strap molasses, charred coffee. Thick, oily, luscious mouth feel, with a super soft carb. Medium bitterness, sticky, sweet, so complex, incredible.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:50
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
On tap at the brewpub on a snifter. Jet black pour, with a big, full mocha head. The aroma is a boat load of roasted malts, soy, charred malts, burnt coffee, dark ripe fruit, and some woody, vanilla sweetness. The aroma is intoxicating and quite complex. As it warms the fruity sweetness of the rum comes through. The body is thick and luscious, with a soft carb. The finish is velevet on my tongue. Super satisfying, but still quite bitter. Huge roasty notes, sweet wood, vanilla, a slight herbal notes that fades quickly to a snappy pine resin hoppiness, then a crescendo overly ripe, overly sweet fruit, and slme soy. Wow, what a masterpiece,
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml @ yngwie. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, allspice, alcohol, oak and spices. Taste is heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, oak, spiced and roasted finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2024
at 23:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 50cl. A black one, with a small tan head. The aroma has lots of spices, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cardamom, too much I think, with dark chocolate, coffee, toffee and some dark dried fruit. It's full-bodied and warming, nicely carbonated, with a good dash of sweetness. Spiced flavor with dark chocolate, coffee, booze, oak and some sweetness. Brown sugar, toffee. Cardamom, cloves, allspice, ginger. Lasting finish. Too spiced this one, else really nice. 241019
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2024
at 23:34
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Aus der Fass im Muted Horn im Sommer 2023 getrunken. Dieses kräftige, vollmundige Stout zeigt deutlich Gewürzwinflüsse und das Rum BA. Ein tolles Stout!
Tried
on 29 Dec 2023
at 12:44
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Vom Fass im Muted Hord 2022-12 getrunken. Dieses kräftige, vollmundige Stout zeigt deutlich Gewürzwinflüsse und das Rum BA. Ein tolles Stout!
Tried
on 04 Feb 2023
at 19:55
8/10
Tried
on 23 Dec 2022
at 17:19
4/10
skeleton key 2017 at BXLbeerfest 2022
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Oct 2022
at 19:39