Black Butte XXX
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.80
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Black Butte XXX is an imperial porter brewed with dutched cocoa and 100% wood aged for one year in bourbon, rum, cognac, port, sherry, vanilla extract, maple and salt barrels. In celebration of 30 years, this imperial porter delivers notes of salted chocolate, whiskey and dried fruit and is not to be missed
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle. Blackish beer with a brown head. Bourbon and oak aroma with caramel and light chocolate. Oak and chocolate flavor with bourbon and caramel. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and oak linger with bourbon and caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2019
at 00:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
650ml waxed bottle. Pours a clear dark brown almost black with red hue and a large, creamy, long lasting, tan head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of bourbon, whiskey, oak, light roasted malt, chocolate, caramel and raisin. Sweet, rich flavour of lightly roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, licorice, raisin, fig, earth and coffee in a dry, mild bitter, whiskey and bourbon warming finish. Full body with a creamy, smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Excellent, nice complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2019
at 05:15
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle: Poured a deep black color ale with a large brown foamy head with good retention with some lacing. Aroma of chocolate notes with some light bourbon notes with dry fruits. Taste is a mix of chocolate notes with some residual sugar notes, no roasted malt notes discernible but dried fruits notes with some bourbon and oak notes that remove any rough edges from this beer. Body is about average with good carbonation. Great nightcap and really resembles a mix of porter/quad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2019
at 20:29
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Ash's
Dark brown colour with small head. Very nice aroma, liquor, chocolate, touch of tobacco, fruit molasses. Sweet but not cloying, strong alcohol upfront, the flavor is quite rich, some fruit.
Excellent.
Dark brown colour with small head. Very nice aroma, liquor, chocolate, touch of tobacco, fruit molasses. Sweet but not cloying, strong alcohol upfront, the flavor is quite rich, some fruit.
Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2019
at 22:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle from LCBO (thx, Charles F.!) at Ash's shared with Alex. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: bourbon, dark fruits, caramel. Taste: similar with noticed roasted malt bitterness. Overall: good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2019
at 06:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bomber, bottled June 11, 2018, poured into a glass. Black with medium beige head. Aroma is dark malt, medium body, medium carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is roasted malt and dark chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2019
at 23:01
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Waxed bomber from Bruisin' Ales. Pours very dark brown with a creamy, foamy medium tan head. Aroma of bourbon, chocolate, dark fruit, perhaps wood, perhaps anise. On the lesser side of full bodied. Flavor is rather different than others of the series? Definitely wood. Bourbon. Chocolate. Dark fruits - fig/raisin. Anise likely. But might there be apple brandy and rum? Mild heat burn. A touch earthy/ashy in the finish. That's a poor description. It would never lead anyone to realize how good this stuff does taste. Excellent.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2019
at 02:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Brian, thanks! Pours a clear deep brown with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has earthy dark grains and a bit of ash with roasted malts and a slight bitterness underlying. Flavor has earthy roasted malts and dark grains with, chocolate and oak supporting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2019
at 02:00