Buckley Reserve #2
(has 5 batches)
Transient Artisan Ales in Bridgman, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.18
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Buckley (Imperial Breakfast Stout with Tugboat coffee, vanilla, and maple syrup) aged in Foeder Crafters’ first ever whiskey Foeder for 2 years then Blis Maple Syrup Barrels for 1 year to become a double barrel Canuckley.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle.
A- Black color, black liquid, no head.
A- Maple, chocolate, faint booze, mild latte creamer.
F- Maple, coffee, sweet.
T- Full body, thick texture, average carbonation, sweet finish.
O- This was so tasty but a tad too sweet. Lots of maple and coffee but barrel doesn't cut through the sweetness enough. Curious how variants of this differ or if they're all about the same.
A- Black color, black liquid, no head.
A- Maple, chocolate, faint booze, mild latte creamer.
F- Maple, coffee, sweet.
T- Full body, thick texture, average carbonation, sweet finish.
O- This was so tasty but a tad too sweet. Lots of maple and coffee but barrel doesn't cut through the sweetness enough. Curious how variants of this differ or if they're all about the same.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2026
at 19:36
8.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Sampled from bottle at Cool Head Craft Beer Garden Festival 2026.
The beer poured dark brown, not really black.
Velvety smooth, hint of licorice, toffee, rhum, herbal notes. Complex and just amazing.
The beer poured dark brown, not really black.
Velvety smooth, hint of licorice, toffee, rhum, herbal notes. Complex and just amazing.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2026
at 16:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught Small tan rim over pitch-black beer. Vanilla, nougat, utterly sweet nose. Nougat, sweet cream, roast. Bourbon, vanilla, double cream, condensed milk liquorice. Certainly warming up, black chocolate and billberries. Chewy - on the verge of solid. Furious alcoholburn, viscous and sticky. In the end, too sweet, really.
Tried
from Draft
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 28 Jun 2026
at 09:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Olutsatama2026. Deep brown colour with a small beige head. Aroam is liquorice, toffee, some rhum, mild vanilla as well as some slight herbal and a bit cookielike elements. Flavour is rhum, liquorice, some mild alcohol with a bit toffee, mild cinnamon/clove like thing going on as well as some vanilla too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2026
at 19:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 9
Overall 8
Kindly shared by fonefan.
Tried
from Draft
at
Peders - Pisserendens ølkælder
on 21 May 2026
at 09:30
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Fat på Peters . Här har vi utseende? Ha ho meningslöst är ju en imp stout . Doftar då!! Jo lite portvin . Smakar portvin och madeira . Kola samt lite rostad malt. Löning sirap God . Rätt söt som du fattar . Bra som fan men liiite för söt .
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Tried
on 21 Mar 2026
at 14:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Pretty much the same as reserve 1 but better, no coffee sour notes. Still too sweet for me however this is overall pretty good. 8-6,5-8-9-8
Tried
on 04 Dec 2025
at 22:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottled 473ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb, shared with Hrabren. Pitch oily black coloured, minimal brown head that went away fast, chocolate and light maple in the nose. Chocolate, caramel, maple and light coconut with notes of alcohol in the finish. Pleasant but a bit too sweet overall.
Tried
from Can
from
Ambasada.
on 20 Oct 2025
at 23:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
A bottle shared with Ogi and Slaven 17 at Ambasada, Zagreb. Jet black, minimal brown head but it's moving. Aroma is intense molasses, maple syrup, chocolate fondue, nuts, toffee, caramel. Some prunes, dates, some spice, some alcohol, some caramel, prunes and chocolate. Sweet but rich and flavourful. Finishes sweet. Alcohol hidden. Wood lightly present.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Ambasada.
on 20 Oct 2025
at 20:06
8.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Гипер сильное по вкусу и пьяное по градусам. Классический имперец в моём понимание, много бочки, кофе и шоколада. Дерево прям как будто нацедили в бутылку. Есть жареные нотки.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2025
at 20:51