After Dinner Decadence
Hidden Springs Ale Works in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Equilibrium BreweryStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.81
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Barrel Aged Imperial S'mores Stout with marshmallow, chocolate, graham crackers, coffee and cherry.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle, pours jet black with a tiny beige head. Aroma is complex and pastry-rific, with plenty of coffee, marshmallow, a hint of cherry, and a subtle bourbon barrels. Flavour is wonderfully complex, with big marshmallow, gentle coffee, some bourbon, and vanilla. A bit too marshmallow-centric, but there’s good integration here. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2026
at 06:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz (thx, Brian S.!) @ Ryan's.
Aroma: very nice mix of smores and coffee, kinda MT level of integration.
Taste: along the same lines with cherries nicely adding to the overall mix.
Overall: very good job done here, for sure.
Aroma: very nice mix of smores and coffee, kinda MT level of integration.
Taste: along the same lines with cherries nicely adding to the overall mix.
Overall: very good job done here, for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2026
at 06:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Dark brown. The aroma has a lot of vanilla, and some cinnamon. On the palate, lots of chocolate, vanilla, and it's quite sweet. The cherry accent is an interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2026
at 05:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 650mL bottle. Very dark brown with almost no beige head. Nice integration of flavours - feint cherry, graham cracker, marshmallow, light coffee and chocolate on the finish. Could have a touch more body, but quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2026
at 05:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650mL bottle. Pours very dark brown with a minimal head. Cocoa, marshmallows, coffee, and graham crackers on the nose. Flavour has chocolate, maraschino cherry, marshmallows, some coffee, and a nice bourbon barrel finish. This comes together pretty well, loads of adjuncts, probably too much marshmallow, but nice overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2026
at 01:57
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Pitch black, minimal dark brown head. Aroma of boiled milk, syrup and chocolate cherry ice cream. Very sweet with full body and viscous mouthfeel. Offputting boiled milk, thick syrup and artificial sweetener, before a finish dominated by cheap cherry booze and Bailey's. While being a pretty vile concotion, it still may be on the higher end of pastry stouts.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2023
at 20:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Pitch black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is chocolate, some cherries, almonds, some alcohol and mild raspberries too. Flavour is chocolate, alcohol, some syrup and mild wooden tones with some cherries and mild nutty tones to it. Rather sweet.
Tried
on 05 Jul 2023
at 17:34
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Tried
on 27 May 2023
at 21:02
8/10
Tried
on 27 May 2023
at 19:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours black with small beige head. The aroma is roast, marshmallow, cherry, cracker. Slick body, roasted malt, sweet cherry, graham cracker, marshmallow fluff, light boozy finish, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2021
at 15:41