Birth of Tragedy
(has 4 batches)
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.04
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Birth of Tragedy is the imperial and oak barrel-aged version of our annual winter porter, Twilight of the Idols. Brewed with locally roasted coffee and Vermont honey, we age this beer for a year in personally selected bourbon barrels from our favorite distilleries.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(On tap @ Warpigs HF Day, Copenhagen, May 12 2016) Pours pitch black with a pale tan head and light lace. Aroma is rich with fairly heavily roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, bourbon, toasted coconut, spicy undertones, some oak, hint of booze. Flavour is rather concentrated and sweet to begin, dark chocolate, coffee, bourbon, dried fruit, cinnamon, vanilla, toffee, rather roasted, drying towards the finish with woody notes, bitter coffee and deep roast more apparent, a touch earthy with alcohol warmth. Full bodied and silky with low carbonation. Pretty bourbon heavy but holds itself up with spices and a roasty core, really drinkable stuff if perhaps more suited to winter weather.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Oct 2016
at 17:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Warpigs, Copenhagen. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin broken tan head. The aroma is big sweet malt, spicy Christmas pudding, alcohol. The flavour is moderate sweet with a smooth rich alcoholic, earthy malt, coffee, light chocolate plate. Full bodied with flat carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jul 2016
at 10:10
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Draught @ Hill Farmstead Day - Warpigs Brewpub, København
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol, bourbon, vanilla, coffee and oak. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, oak and bourbon finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol, bourbon, vanilla, coffee and oak. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, oak and bourbon finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 26 May 2016
at 14:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
From tap at Warpigs, Copenhagen. Black color with beige brown head. roasted malty aroma, caramel, chocolate, coffee, licorice, some spicy perfume notes - peppermint, wood, alcohol. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium to full oily silky body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2016
at 14:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap @ Warpigs. Very dark brown with tiny head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, coconut and bourbon. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, coconut, little vanilla, warming, medium sweet, hop and medium bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2016
at 00:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@Hill Farmstead Day, Warpigs, Copenhagen (12/05/2016) - pours black with a beige head. Aroma and taste is roasted malty, slight burnt dark malty notes with roasted coffee character, dark fruits, with chocolate, caramel, cocoa, bourbon soaked finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2016
at 04:35
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at Warpigs, pre-CBC. Pitch black with a tan head. Smells of bourbon, vanilla, cocoa, chocolate, toasted coconut. Medium body with a bitter-sweet aftertaste. --- Beer merged from original tick of Birth of Tragedy on 07 Jul 2018 at 14:23 - Score: 9. Original review text: Tons of bourbon, honey, sweet coffee. Heavy, lightly spicy, intense. A sipper. Great stuff. 4.4
Tried
from Draft
on 16 May 2016
at 04:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Warpigs, Copenhagen. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, caramel, dark chocolate, wood, light bourbon, vanilla, alcohol. Flavor is sweet, rich malty, caramel, light spice, vanilla, chocolate, wood, bourbon, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, oily mouthfeel, sweet finish with warming alcohol. 120516
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2016
at 13:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12.05.2016, tap @ Warpigs:
Nice light brown creamy shortlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry boozy, bourbon, minerals, burnt caramel, dark malts, grass, oak, bark, caramel, dark sugar, coffee, licorice, dark fruits. Taste is slightly sour-ish dry, dark malts, dark fruits, minerals, oak, alcohol, dark sugar, licorice, caramel, chocolate, mild bourbon, vanilla. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mineraly mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Nice light brown creamy shortlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry boozy, bourbon, minerals, burnt caramel, dark malts, grass, oak, bark, caramel, dark sugar, coffee, licorice, dark fruits. Taste is slightly sour-ish dry, dark malts, dark fruits, minerals, oak, alcohol, dark sugar, licorice, caramel, chocolate, mild bourbon, vanilla. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mineraly mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2016
at 09:50