Apple Brandy Barrel GBS
(has 3 batches)
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.80
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Gingerbread Stout Aged in Apple Brandy Barrels
In this limited edition variant, our Gingerbread Stout blends in perfect harmony with the cinnamon kissed oak staves of the apple brandy barrels in which it was matured. This barrel aged imperial milk stout crescendos with notes of honey, chocolate and fragrant cinnamon.
In this limited edition variant, our Gingerbread Stout blends in perfect harmony with the cinnamon kissed oak staves of the apple brandy barrels in which it was matured. This barrel aged imperial milk stout crescendos with notes of honey, chocolate and fragrant cinnamon.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
12oz? stubby bottle. Consumed 3 years after purchase. Poured a pitch black color. Aroma was amazing apple brandy, still holds up after all this time. Gingerbread still there. No oxidation at all. Still super smooth, maybe even more-so than before. Booze is there, I guess, but well masked for be perfectly honest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2026
at 05:58
7/10
Tried
on 23 Mar 2023
at 20:34
7/10
Apple brandy, milk stout, chocolate,
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2023
at 17:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split at L6 at the Tipple's had tasting, thanks to Leighton, 17/04/19. Black with a well presented tan head. Nose is chocolate, dark malts, light spice, brandy notes. Taste comprises chocolate, toffee, oak, mellow brand tones, calvados, light black peppery spice, dried fruits, raisins. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced kiss of alcohol at the curtain call. Decent enough impy stout but lacking any wow factor for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2020
at 11:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster pour at bottle share -- thanks Stacey (2017 vintage). Appearance is opaque black with no sparkle thin ring of beige head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is mild apple (almost like Apple Jacks) mild chocolate and sweet roasted malts. Taste is strong apple brandy covers up the base stout. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth thin texture soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall nice but not complex and the apple brandy is too strong in the flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2019
at 23:51
9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
2017 vintage. Did the full vertical side- by- side. Aroma has slight apple brandy with cinnamon. Flavor is absolutely fantastic! Mild chocolate, light coffee, hints of ginger bread, with a mild underlying apple brandy. Damn!!! Completely awesome!
Tried
on 21 Sep 2019
at 20:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from bottle thanks Stacey black brown with a cocoa head. Aroma is brandy, coffee, gingerbread, molasses. Taste is nice, well balanced, nicely integrated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2019
at 19:51
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2019
at 15:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Craig's. Pours black, nose is gingerbread, chocolate, caramel, brandy, taste is similar, chewy, sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2019
at 14:16
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home ... Dark black ... small tan head ... big ginger .. soft malts .. soft roast malts .. massive ginger roast ... light soft roast ... mellow roast .. soft spicy ginger... rich roast ... ligth ginger ... soft dry ginger .. soft sweet brandy ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2019
at 19:36