Grey Monday
(has 9 batches)
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.07
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Bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout with hazelnuts
Inspiration can come from unexpected places. Initially created for a gastronomy dinner in 2012, Grey Monday was an appreciative complement to our hosts' epicurean craft. An ease to the Monday blues, this decadent treatment of Black Tuesday features Oregon-grown hazelnuts. Toasty and nutty characters play off bold yet smooth complexity in this bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Pair with inspiration to evolve your craft this week!
Inspiration can come from unexpected places. Initially created for a gastronomy dinner in 2012, Grey Monday was an appreciative complement to our hosts' epicurean craft. An ease to the Monday blues, this decadent treatment of Black Tuesday features Oregon-grown hazelnuts. Toasty and nutty characters play off bold yet smooth complexity in this bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Pair with inspiration to evolve your craft this week!
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 10/4/2016. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger foamy khaki head with poor retention, and reduces to nothing pretty quickly. Minimal spotty lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Plenty of alcohol legs on the glass. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, hazelnuts, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, fudge, vanilla, molasses, bourbon, toasted oak, coconut, raisins, and roast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roasted malt, hazelnuts, and bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Increasing booze in the aromas as it warms, but not overwhelming. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, hazelnuts, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, fudge, vanilla, molasses, bourbon, toasted oak, coconut, raisins, and roast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate bourbon/oak spiciness and light roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, hazelnuts, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, fudge, vanilla, molasses, bourbon, toasted oak, coconut, raisins, and roast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt, hazelnuts, and bourbon barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light dryness from bourbon/oak spiciness and roast bitterness, lightly increasing through the glass. Light-medium carbonation and fairy full body; with a smooth, creamy/silky, and lightly slick/syrupy/sticky/chalky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden; a small lingering warmth, with mild booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is an incredible barrel aged imperial stout! All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt, hazelnuts, and bourbon barrel flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the enormous ABV. I was hoping for more intense hazelnut character from this; but it seems to be much more balanced between the malt, barrel, and hazelnut flavors. A highly enjoyable offering regardless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2017
at 07:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft 4 oz pour at Beer Junction. Hate hazelnuts, but not nearly enough to pass on trying a beer like this. A muddy brown pour with almost no head to start. A huge aroma of dough, vanilla, milk chocolate, and some Berry. Flavor is a boost chocolate, and a nutty cherry note. Like a cherry walnut flavor. Huge beer here. Unique and memorable. Very good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2016
at 17:30
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle , 2013 vintage. Pours clear black, small tan head, some lacing. Aroma is rich vanilla bourbon hazelnut cocoa. Flavor is the same pretty sweet, light plus bitter, rich hazelnut spread with a bourbon vanilla overtone. Medium plus body, kinda hot overall, but a really nice desert sipper. Glad to have shared it with friends.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2016
at 21:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bouteille 750ml, gracieuseté de billverstein, Thanks Billy! Couleur noire opaque, mousse moka foncée fugace. Arôme de noisette, chocolat, alcool, malt torréfié, côté nutella, café. Goût de chocolat, alcool très présent, hyper sucré, malt torréfié, café, Bourbon. Carbonatation faible, corps dense.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2016
at 20:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
GABF 2015. Black beer, surprisingly well carbonated. Extremely sweet, tons of alcohol in the aroma, flavor, and on the palate. i can’t imagine drinking a 750 of this. I get soy sauce, balsamic, caramel and tootsie roll. Sell this in a nip bottle, that is all you need.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Oct 2015
at 19:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, thanks for sharing. Pours black with a grayish brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has dark fruits, sweet dark grains and barrel with a sweet backbone. Flavor is very sweet with dark grains, dark fruits and toffee with a bit of roasted malts, hazelnut and barrel supporting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2015
at 19:30