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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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at Beer Run. Dark brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of roasted malts, ginger, chocolate, brandy, vanilla. The taste is ginger, chocolate, brandy, wood, mint. Medium bodied, low carbonation.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2016
at 20:44
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle from the release pours a oily rootbeer brown with some swirling, brown head. Nose has a lovely cinnamon bouquet, honey comb, cinnamon candies, brown sugar, molasses, spiced cookie, clove too, nutmeg, some heavy dried ginger. Flavor follows, the interplay between the spice and the chewy molasses/malt is very nice, crystallized ginger, vanilla, cinnamon stick, light chicory, some cream soda, honey. Finishes, sweet, spicy and a little sticky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2015
at 16:50
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
8-10 oz draft pour at Hardywood, plastic cup. Consumed on 12/19/2015. Black with tan head. Aromas of apples, chocolate, spices. Tastes of spiced apple, chocolate, gingerbread, some brandy. Full body with a dry finish. Very tasty! 8/4/9/4/18
750 ml bottle poured into a Bruery tulip. Black with two fingers of light tan head. Consumed on 12/25/2015. Aromas of distinct brandy, oak, apples, cinnamon spice, a little ginger and cocoa. Tastes of chocolate, brandy, ginger, cinnamon spice, caramelized apples. More ginger and brandy as it warms. Very good but Bourbon GBS is still my favorite of the barrel aged GBS’s. 8/4/8/4/17
750 ml bottle poured into a Bruery tulip. Black with two fingers of light tan head. Consumed on 12/25/2015. Aromas of distinct brandy, oak, apples, cinnamon spice, a little ginger and cocoa. Tastes of chocolate, brandy, ginger, cinnamon spice, caramelized apples. More ginger and brandy as it warms. Very good but Bourbon GBS is still my favorite of the barrel aged GBS’s. 8/4/8/4/17
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2015
at 13:51