Fieldwork Brewing Company Bad Conduct

Bad Conduct

 

Fieldwork Brewing Company in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Brown Ale - Imperial Winter
Score
7.37
ABV: 12.0% IBU: - Ticks: 10
Brewed for the holidays and designed to relish in each of the seven deadly sins; Bad Conduct is our Chocolate Maple Imperial Brown aged on vanilla beans and American hard maple. We start with an oversized Brown Ale loaded with notes of cocoa powder and toasted almonds then drown it in Vermont maple syrup till it's gurgling for help. While serving its month long sentence in the fermentor we rain down cocoa nibs like locusts till Bad Conduct tastes like a chocolate dipped waffle in Dam Square at 3am. Once it tastes just right we ship the beer off to rest on vanilla beans, maple wood, and even more maple syrup. The vanilla is to help bridge the maple and chocolate flavors to the roasty nutty ogre of a base beer. The American hard maple adds a nice level of tannins that helps to balance out the giant body and viscosity of this beer, and also provides subtle flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg. Lastly adding more maple syrup simply exemplifies our disdain for restraint when brewing for the holiday season. When all is said and done, Bad Conduct Chocolate Maple Imperial Brown is an unforgettable head on collision where breakfast meets dessert and Thanksgiving meets Krampus.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and vanilla aroma. Milk chocolate flavor with vanilla and maple. Medium bodied. Vanilla and milk chocolate linger with light caramel and maple.

Tried from Draft on 17 May 2017 at 10:46


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draft @ the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty maple caramel and chocolate aroma. Fruity malty spicy maple caramel and chocolate flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy maple and caramel finish.

Tried from Draft on 27 Apr 2017 at 11:46


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

pint can courtesy of Buckeyeboy, cheers Jeremy ! Can # 546/750 brune, col épais crémeux café au lait. Arôme est facilement noté sur l’effet d’érable - en sucre fermentescible? la vanille ajoute une pointe de douceur qui est assez dominante. Malt en rétro avec effet de crystal et pâle et qcq touches de chocolaté. Palais est épais et donne de suite le ton avec ses 12%. petite touche résiduelle du sucre avec un effet de sirop d’érable qui rajoute encore à cette effet de douceur tout en gardant le côté naturel de l’érable. Chocolaté noir assez plaisant avec un effet de poudre. Petite amertume liée à ce chocolat arrive à percer avec en fin de bouche un autre ajout amer liée aux houblons - ces derniers sont dans une lignée américaine d’agrumes. Les 12% sont clairement en avant et la vanille arrive en retrait - cette douceur est par ailleurs un peu de trop sur la fin surtout pour une cannette à boire seul. Retrouve une finalité des malts versant sur le chocolat, pâle et crystal.

Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2017 at 05:47


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

From tap at the brewery. Clear dark brown color with light beige head. Malty aroma, light roasted, caramel, maple, chocolate, vanilla, coconut, spicy.Heavy sweet and light bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 27 Mar 2017 at 16:46


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

[1/29/17] Bottle/Can/Crowler/Growler at a bottle share at Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. Brown. Nuts, vanilla, chocolate, maple. Sweet. Rounded mouthfeel.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2017 at 06:42


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at City Beer Store. The beer is dark brown with a small beige head. Some lacing. The aroma is overflowing with maple and vanilla. It smells like some sort of wonderful candy syrup thing. A touch of nuttiness and just a hint of cola. Tons of flavor. Quite sweet but it works for the beer and doesn’t get cloying or anything. Lingering vanilla and maple - it just keeps going and going. Smooth, full mouthfeel. Coats the palate. Wonderful dessert beer.

Tried from Draft on 18 Feb 2017 at 02:02


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16oz can pours out cola brown color topped with a small head. Nose is maple bourbon barrel big vanilla plenty roast malts. Taste is more of maple syrup sweetness roast malts chocolate.

Tried from Can on 29 Jan 2017 at 01:41


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Beer Revolution. It pours a dark brown color with a khaki head. The aroma is extremely intense with dense chocolate, maple syrup and malted milkshake. Some strong vanilla notes too. The flavor is the same. Intense chocolate, vanilla, maple and nougat. Very sweet and a little smoky/roasted. The body is thick and lightly boozy. No off flavors, just a massive, sweet, boozy maple brown ale. A good sipper if you like this kind of beer.

Tried from Draft on 10 Jan 2017 at 09:54


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On draught at Ale Arsenal. Syrupy maple aroma and flavor. Clear brown with an off-white head. Sweet like a dessert. Would taste very nice on pancakes! Not sure I was in the right mindset for this - I look forward to re-trying this and perhaps upping the score.

Tried on 16 Dec 2016 at 00:16


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can thanks to Dan. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is vanilla, roast, cocoa, maple. Medium body, nice roast, vanilla bean, chocolate, maple, wood, very nice.

Tried from Can on 11 Dec 2016 at 02:16