Fayston Maple - Bourbon Barrel-Aged
Lawson's Finest Liquids in Waitsfield, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.53
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Mocha head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Maple and vanilla aromas. Soft with hot vanilla, maple and cocoa upfront turning to coffee and esspresso in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft - Intense bourbon, maple and dark chocolate. Jet brown with a decent brown head. Boozy, barell notes, sweet maple and a long finish. This is almost too big for me. Maybe with some age it may mellow.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Poured a dark brown with tan circle. Aroma is maple sweet. Sweet tooth maple bourbon.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
375ml bottle thanks to Matt. Pours out a rich thick black topped with a small tan head. Nose is amazing sweet maple syrup rich roasted malt nice bourbon barrel touch brown sugar sweetness and a nice chocolate. Taste is more of the maple syrup nice Bourbon Barrel notes vanilla brown sugar molasses roast malt and a little coffee.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Nick. Pours a dark brown with beige head that lasts. The aroma is bourbon, maple, caramel, and wood. Thin mouthfeel with rich chocolate malt, light maple, sweet boozy finish. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle #125 of 350 at THE stouts tasting part 2, thanks to K-Dogg. It pours near black with a small tan head. The nose is smooth, vanilla, toffee, chocolate, coconut, cocoa powder and berry. The taste is roasty, toast, light tangy fruits, cherry, blueberry, bramble, earth, faint sourness, wood, bourbon and some bitterness. Medium-full body, moderate carbonation and oily mouth-feel. Nice tangy fruitiness and good balance. I like it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
19th March 2013
Stouts and Porters II. Bottle 125/350. Opaque dark brown beer, good tan head. Softish airy palate, semi dry. Rich dark malt but somehow not heavy. Mild tang. Medium bourbon and an overall medium sweetness. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at at Bruce’s, London during The Stouts Tasting, Pt. II - big thanks to Ken, the beer-acquiring wizard. Pours oily black-brown with a small but tight brown cream head. Dark malt nose, toasted dark bread, some chocolate, dried fruits, dirt. Big sweet flavor, certainly some boozy kick, lots of sweets dried dark fruits. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Chocolate, cherries, dark berries, mellow roast, some booze kick to finish, some baking cocoa. Very nice overall. Good baking cocoa linger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Big thanks for dak for opening this series of Imperial Stouts at the Annual Black Friday tasting. It pours with a dark brown body that supports a thin mocha colored head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, burnt malts, molasses and some smooth booze. The taste is wow, dark roasted malts, some burnt malts, rich molasses and brown sugar coated toffee. From there it picks up smooth bourbon notes and mild booziness into the finish. Yummy near nectar like richness, wow!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
2012 Vintage. Acquired this today at the Lawson’s Market in Waitsfield. It was great to see Sean and team! Enjoyed in a small Duvel Tulip at room temperature. New format is 375ML for $15. Red wax top.
A - Poured a thick and viscous midnight black. No head aside from a fine and thin later of coffee coloured bubbles around the edge of the glass. Amber hues but overall, midnight oily black. Not as viscous as a BCBS but quite heavy.
S - There’s a lot going on here but overall, the nose is weaker than I expected. There’s a lot of peat and charred oak. Lots of burnt wood, a very small hint of vanilla and molasses.
T - The start taste is very much a roasted toffee malts with hints of espresso beans and very dry baker’s chocolate.The middle is a very oaky sort of smokey peat taste. The finish is this boozy bomb of vanilla, oak, bourbon and heavy maple syrup sweetness like brown sugar.
M - Heavy body, very low carbonation but it’s this tongue covering thick oaky beer that sticks to every aspect and leaves a tingling sensation loaded with vanilla and coffee beans.
O - This was a great beer but I remember the 2011 being better. I’m no expert on stouts but there’s this balance that’s missing from the 2011...that vintage was less oaky and smoky. I have more of this so maybe it just needs some time.