Super Secret Stairs
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
6.95
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Pouring a deep, pitch black hue with subtle ruby highlights and a khaki head, Super Secret Stairs offers a bold and enticing nose with aromas of rich, Mexican hot chocolate, cinnamon-brown sugar, and freshly brewed coffee. Waves of melted milk chocolate wash over the palate underlined by notes of ground hazelnuts, vanilla cream and chewy molasses cookies. With a nourishing, medium-to-full mouthfeel and light bitterness, Super Secret Stairs is balanced with a faintly smokey, drying roast that makes for a cozy, mouthwatering sip.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Black with a large foamy brown head. Bitter and roasty with floral hops and anise. Long finish. Medium body .
Benzai (24515) reviewed Super Secret Stairs from Trillium Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Zeezicht, Breda. Opaque dark brown to black color, medium sized light brown colored head. Aroma and flavor are malts, soft roast, lightly hops in the distance I'd say to my own surprise, fairly bitter / malt bitter finish that lingers for quite a while. Body is lightly thin, but the beer definitely has a full flavor. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 10/27 and canned 10/25, drunk 11/15/18.
Dark ebony. Tan head immediately fizzles to nothing.
Rich burnt toffee, soy, peanut, baker's chocolate and light alcohol vapors give a very powerful, dark, blackened impression. I love dark fruit character in a stout more than the next guy, but this one seems to have a lot of biscuit and soy that rather obscures the potential prune-raisin-grape. The alcohol isn't noxious or anything and it seems to be well-attenuated, on the plus side. The roast that lies underneath helps anchor it.
In the mouth it's thick/viscous and with caramel and chocolate fighting against bitter roast, ash, licorice and vanilla. It comes off less than sweet, though the hefty, nearly syrupy texture gives it more of a sweet feel than it otherwise would have. Not as much of the soy and biscuit from the nose, thankfully but the vanilla remains dry and spicy, mixing with cherry-like esters and very light, controlled alcohol. Even though it's not raw or too sweet, it still throws its weight around and seems all or more than its 9.1%. Nice adjunct-free Imperial Dry Stout, if you want to call it that. Would be curious to see how this ages over 6 months or so. Carbonation is very low but engaging, attenuation is medium to medium-high with low-to-moderate bitterness and no real intense roast or ash.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a deep, dark brown-black, with smallish tan head that dissipates rapidly. Aroma has notes of chocolate and coffee, some dark fruit, roasted grain, nuts. Flavor is lightly sweet, with chocolate, coffee, plum/prune, roasted grain, nuts. Pretty smooth with only slight bitterness in the finish. This is good stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours black into a tulip. Micro mocha head quickly recedes to bubble on surface. Soy, smoke and chocolate aromas. Medium bodied with dark chocolate and espresso upfront turning to pumpernickel sourdough before the lasting earthy smoked resin finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of roast chocolate, dry toast, dark wheat and coffee - full bodied