Hinterland
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.75
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Step into the Hinterland and lose yourself in the darkness...
This pitch black oatmeal stout is as rich and complex as they come, but as smooth as chocolate milkshake.
Smoky, coffee and cacao aromas lead into rich chocolate ganache, bitter espresso and cocoa powder, with a warming plum brandy hit and a roasty bitter finish that balances out the chewy sweetness, while a liquid honeycomb mouth-feel lifts the bitterness and lets the vanilla shine through.
Malts: Carafa, Chocolate, Crystal, Flaked Oats, Pale, Wheat
Hops: Bramling Cross, Sorachi Ace, Willamette
This pitch black oatmeal stout is as rich and complex as they come, but as smooth as chocolate milkshake.
Smoky, coffee and cacao aromas lead into rich chocolate ganache, bitter espresso and cocoa powder, with a warming plum brandy hit and a roasty bitter finish that balances out the chewy sweetness, while a liquid honeycomb mouth-feel lifts the bitterness and lets the vanilla shine through.
Malts: Carafa, Chocolate, Crystal, Flaked Oats, Pale, Wheat
Hops: Bramling Cross, Sorachi Ace, Willamette
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Old rating - A 330ml bottle from Love Wine in Jersey some 4 years ago. Stored in my cellar, opened & poured 11/05/2020. It's a dense jet black colour with a small beige head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, dark fruits, smoke, treacle, hints of vanilla & rich malt. Excellent
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2025
at 17:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Last bottle. Noticed this had just passed the 10 year brewed on date so it seemed about time. It's lasted well tbf. Pours near black with tan foam. Aroma & taste: chocolate & coffee, decent body for an oatmeal stout. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
at
BrewDog DogTap Ellon
on 09 Jun 2025
at 21:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught. Deep brown colour with a mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is cocoa, liquorice, some alcohol and mild toasted tones. Flavour is liquorice, cocoa, mild toffee, syrup and some nutty tones. Alcohol shows a wee bit in the background.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2023
at 15:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ CBC16. Pours black with a medium brown head. Aromas of coffee, milky sweetness, vanilla, licorice, cocoa, malts. Taste is milky sweet, licorice, vanilla, dark fruits, cocoa, bitter chocolate.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Jet black colour with late awakening, small to average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, beige to tan head. Intense, chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, liquorice, hints of liquorice root and marmite, some vanilla. Taste is sweet-ish, roasty, chocolately, slightly spicy dark malty, notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, some treacle, a touch of coffee, dry vanilla counterpart; minimally warming, alcoholic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2019
at 21:34
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Dec 2018
at 14:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
0,1l taster at home courtesy of Sander, big thanks. black color, small coffee colored head. smells milky, earthy, milk chocolate. full body, light carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of berry notes, light vanilla, marzipan, lightly nutty, light cinnamon, sweet spices, bit doughy, earthy. finishes lightly sweet with notes of berry notes, marzipan and some spices. Quite nice one, smell was rather subtle, but taste is very nice, gets a bit heavy though once it warms up.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2018
at 16:42
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8
(720 napja palackozták) Kicsi, barna, tartós hab, fekete szín. Csokis, kávés, kakaós, vaníliás illatok, komoly aszaltgyümölcsös vonásokkal és egy kis konyakossággal. Enyhén édeskés, csokis, kávés, kakaós, vaníliás ízvilág, némi aszalt gyümölcsös aromával. Közepesen testes, enyhén szénsavas, közepesen keserű. Tökéletes egyensúly és arányok, nagyszerű sör.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2018
at 19:53
9/10
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Tried
on 04 Feb 2018
at 13:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33 l bottle from 'Bierhandwerk', best before May 2020. Pitch black with a thin, frothy, almost stable, brown head. Sweetish-malty, moderately roasty and slightly resiny aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice, some hazelnut and a touch of pine. Moderately sweet, malty, quite roasty and slightly resiny taste of dark chocolate, lots of licorice, coffee, some hazelnut and a bit of pine, followed by a long, rather roasty-bitter, moderately earthy-dry, moderately resiny finish. Medium to full body, slightly oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very intense stuff, less sweet than expected, extremely hoppy for a Stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2017
at 15:17