Santas Little Helper - Bourbon Barrel
Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.81
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Our Bourbon barrel-aged version of Santa’s Little Helper, this Imperial Stout begins the journey with flavors of sweet Bourbon and oak, continues with hints of nutty dark chocolate and malt and finishes with a smoky coffee finish. A perfect beer to leave for the Jolly Old Fat Man instead of milk and cookies.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Batch 1 thanks to kraddel. Pours out oil black topped with a tan ring of a head. Nose is great big bourbon barrel vanilla roast malts coffee chocolate lots of sweet notes. Taste is more of the nice bourbon barrel vanilla molasses chocolate this has held on very well.
Tried
on 07 Mar 2017
at 07:27
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bomber shared by Kraddel at RBBWG 2017. Thin and loose, pale beige, quickly dissipating head over a black beer with cloudy burgundy edges. Aroma of chocolate liqueur, wet oak including vanilla, quite a lot of bourbon, leather, toffee, toasted peanuts, hazelnut, cinnamon. Sweet onset, candied fig and dried banana, softish carbo, deeply nutty and toasted malt body, lovely bittersweetness with a roasted coffeeish ’colour’ in the end, thoroughly (black) chocolatey, highly drinkable, beautiful finish with drying and aromatically vanilla-ish wood tannins, a punch of peppery hops, long-stretched chocolatey malt bittersweetness and, more than anything else, a lot of bourbon, in the form of warming booze - a bit too much so actually. Otherwise a thing of beauty.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2017
at 06:41
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Thank you kraddel! 650 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). 2009 Vintage! First batch apparently. Dark brown black with little to no head. nose is thick sweet bourbon goodness, molasses, sugar, candy, chocolate, pralines. Taste is mellow sweet maple syrup, candy, sweet sugar, nuts, thick bourbon, vanilla, sugar, pralines sweet. Really nice, body is slightly thinned out maybe but otherwise this has held up spectacularly, really nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2017
at 05:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle purchased at the Hoppy in Thessaloniki - Greece, aged about 3 years. Coffee bean color, dark brown head which recalls the foam of an espresso. Minimal retention, just traces after lowering. Nose: Sweet vanilla, bourbon relevant character, wet wood, sundae, dark fruit. Intensive and nice. Mouth: it seems sipping a whiskey, so much alcohol, warm and a bit over the top. Bummer, because the nose was really promising!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2016
at 14:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 12.0%. Distinct vanilla aroma, hint of coconut. Black colour. No head. The flavour is sweet with a good vanilla note. Also has a distinct alcohol note in the finish. Vinous vanilla. ’s all good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 17:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pitch black, small tan head. Barrel and vanilla roma, light licorice. Thick, oily mouthfeel. Coconut, vanilla and chocolate flavour. Alcohlic and warming. Finish has long alcoholic burn. Solid yet quite drinkable.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2016
at 16:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours cloudy very dark brown with airy tan head. Clear aroma of roast and vanilla, with notes of barrel and malt and touches of yeast. Bitter, roasty flavour with notes of vanilla and barrel and touches of yeast and hops and coffee. Roasty and barrellike aftertaste. Good. Damn good, if boozy. Yeah.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 16:56