Off Color Brewing Dino Smores

Dino Smores
(has 1 batch)

 

Off Color Brewing in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: Amager Bryghus
  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.47
ABV: 10.5% IBU: 40 Ticks (all batches): 81
Imperial Marshmallow Stout

Amager Bryghus and West Lakeview Liquors Collaboration

When we launched BorrachaBaker made us some s'mores shaped like dinosaurs for our launch event. Then, we made an imperial stout with graham flour, marshmallow fluff, vanilla, and cocoa nibs with Amager and West Lakeview Liquors. Then, we brought this beer to the Brewpub Shootout and paired the beer named after the food with a food the beer wasn't named after. People were confused and named it best beer (or was it food?) at the Shootout.

Malts: Pale, Vienna, Wheat, Cara II, Extra Special, Flaked Oats, Dark Chocolate, Black, Roasted Barley
Hops: Nugget
Secret Ingredients: Marshmallow fluff, vanilla beans, molasses, graham flour, cocoa nibs
 

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Blackish pour from bottle. Vanilla, roasted malt, some graham cracker. Bitter chocolate. Pretty good.
Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:42

8/10
Just found out Anna is being hired at CBs. You are shitty me right.
Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:35

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
0,473l can at home. Black color, small tan head. smells vanilla, nutty, spices, nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes vanilla, nutty, spices, earthy. finishes lightly roasty bitter with notes of vanilla, nutty and spices. Nice stuff, not on the sweet side

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Tried from Can on 28 Jan 2024 at 10:03

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Tried on 19 Feb 2023 at 02:56

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Can from Brewer’s Haven. This is one of many beers I’ve been wanting to try for a long time, going back to when I wanted to taste every imperial stout ever made. Dark brown with a nice tan head, but somewhat of a subdued aroma. A little roast and cocoa. Similar taste, it has the bones of a solid Impy, but there is nothing that really says S’mores here. Feb 2021
Tried from Can on 29 Jan 2022 at 17:51

4.5/10
Not getting any sweetness. Bitter coffee. Unpleasant. Almost wondering if it’s damaged.
Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2022 at 16:04

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Black body, medium light brown head. Aroma mostly cocoa and vanilla, with marshmallows and coffee beans. Roasty and sweet. Body grainy, roasty, with big cocoa/chocolate liqueur, marshmallow, and vanilla, the graham eventually becoming more assertive. Smooth, relatively thin, heavy on the adjuncts. Doesn't seem like a 10.5% ABV beer. Mediocre.
Tried on 15 Dec 2021 at 16:28

8.5/10
Very light on the marshmallows, but the 9 different malts absolutely MAKE this beer the monster it is. Not sweet, very roasted, malty, kinda biscuity, with some bitter dark chocolate. In the age of sweet pastry stouts, this is the antithesis we need.
Tried from Can on 15 Dec 2020 at 23:58

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Shared at Dangerous Bottleshare #7. Pours pitch black with a small brown head. Aromas of vanilla, fudge, light smoke, some chocolate, malts. Taste is sweet, caramel, fudge, marshmallow, vanilla, milk chocolate, malts, light roast and tobacco. I expected more from this, but it’s pretty nice.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 17:19

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap pour at Armsby Abbey. Appearance is inky black, no discernible sparkle, inch of off-white head with fair retention. Aroma is chocolate, lactose/cream, marshmallow. Taste is chocolate, lactose, creamy, marshmallow component but also some alcohol, hint of dark fruit and mildest of graham cracker. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, smooth texture, lively carbonation and finish mostly sweet as taste with mild roasted bitterness at end. Overall, as advertised but strong aroma/flavor and good complexity.
Tried from Draft on 16 May 2019 at 03:35