Photon Sphere
Olde Hickory Brewery in Hickory, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.78
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
From tap at Borefts 2019. Aroma is intense chocolate cake with chili pepper, cinnamon, roasted malt, bourbon, and cocoa nibs. Roasty, some alcohol and pleasant chili burn. Moderate sweet. Full body, rich and aromatic. My kind of Stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2025
at 11:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From a 12 oz. bottle filled 05/30/19. Pours black with a scant head. Aromas of chocolate, vanilla and oak. Flavors are bitter dark chocolate, cinnamon and a habanero spicy kick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2020
at 00:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from weihenweizen: pours black with a beige head. Aroma is cinnamon, chocolate, hints of spice and loads of barrel. Dry, spicy (not the pepper kind), chocolate and habanero. Large slow sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2020
at 00:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ BBF 2019 11th. edition [ Borefts Beer Festival 2019 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands.
[ As Olde Hickory Photon Sphere ].
ABV: 11.9%. Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, cocoa, spicy - cinnamon - tonka beans, light nutty - earthy - habanero peppers. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, chocolate, vanilla, cocoa, bourbon - vanilla, spicy - cinnamon - tonka beans, chocolate - sweet malt - honey, cake. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming, light alcoholic and nice light hot pepper - chili. [20190927]
8-4-8-4-16
Tried
on 14 Jun 2020
at 09:50
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled at Borefts Beer Festival 2019, day 1. Opaque jet black color, average sized light brown colored head. Aroma is malts, light tonka beans, more tonka beans and quite boozy, warming alcohol. Hmm unbalanced imo.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2020
at 20:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Black with medium light brown head. Aroma is chocolate, medium/thick body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is chocolate, cinnamon, and hot pepper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2020
at 01:58
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
At Borefts 2019. Aroma of bourbon vanilla, chocolate, caramel fudge and malt. Taste has rich caramel fudge, cinnamon, vanilla, bourbon booze, chocolate and soft chili. All the flavors are strong, but very balanced. This is amazing.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2019
at 10:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at borefts. Pours black, nose is toffee, wood, caramel, honey, taste is similar, quite spicy. 4
Tried
on 17 Oct 2019
at 07:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap at the BeerTemple, 10th October 19. Pours black, no head. Aroma is malt, roasty, liquorice, barrel. Taste is bitter and sweet, some spice, love the kick at the back end from the pepper. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Oct 2019
at 16:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pours a black colour and a small brown head with some retentino. Aroma's: bourbon, sweetish, vanilla, oak. Retronasal: sweetish, cinnamon, vanilla, bourbon, light vegetal. Flavour is moderate sweet, light roasty. MEdium bodied. Some pepper heat that is not overwhelming of long-lasting. Finishes a bit spicy first, then light woody.
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 10 Oct 2019
at 20:12