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Stone & Wood Brewing Co in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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Rich, dark, velvety, and boozy. This barrel aged imperial stout is known only as "X". It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is ...Stone and Wood's 10 year anniversary!!!
This deeply complex beer does not hold back on layers of flavor. Dark chocolate, tobacco, and roasted malt dominate the initial impressions. Search deeper and you might find prunes, vinous port notes, coffee, burn sugar, wood and cherry.
Roasty aromas from the dark malts are accompanied by subtle berry esters, hints of rum and vanilla, licorice and candied orange peel.
The beer drinks dangerously smooth at 10%ABV. It balances the malty sweetness of crystal and roasted malts with a firm dark chocolate bitterness, a pleasing astringency and warming alcohol.
This deeply complex beer does not hold back on layers of flavor. Dark chocolate, tobacco, and roasted malt dominate the initial impressions. Search deeper and you might find prunes, vinous port notes, coffee, burn sugar, wood and cherry.
Roasty aromas from the dark malts are accompanied by subtle berry esters, hints of rum and vanilla, licorice and candied orange peel.
The beer drinks dangerously smooth at 10%ABV. It balances the malty sweetness of crystal and roasted malts with a firm dark chocolate bitterness, a pleasing astringency and warming alcohol.
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7.5
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed X from Stone & Wood Brewing Co 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
B tan h 4 A: rich but not lush with mocha and light smoke, burnt cream, dark berries - lovely and exceptionally well integrated 8++ Not much more than medium bodied v smooth, perhaps slightly alcohol thinned. Lacks a bit of bottom end due perhaps to modest sweetness. More coffee and almost ashy roast than chocolate. Earthy and spicy bitterness is really nice but is a little much given what’s before. Dunno if they will bottle this but could be very good with 6 months to mellow allowing the earthy spices (I can see "tobacco" written on the menu) sit back a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2018
at 13:23