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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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from 2012 shared Friday night. Deep thick black color with a small quickly dissipating tan head. Huge molasses roast and chocolate with a fair bit of hazel nuttiness still evident. Solid warming alcohol never gets harsh, Very well made huge sipping beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2015
at 13:36
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Draft at Snallygaster 2015. Poured a medium dark, close to black but not quite, color with a tan head. Velvet. Chocolate syrup. Boozy vanilla, nutty notes. Very smooth. Alcohol is most certainly there, boozy, but not terribly boozy like some high ABV beers I’ve had, these beers seem to be hit or miss, and thankfully this was a big enough hit to recommend. This was a boozy, vanilla, sweet nutty notes. Now I have diabetes. Could they pull this off with half the alcohol? I’d love to try that one...
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2015
at 10:32
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml silver waxed bottle poured into a Bruery tulip. 2015 edition at 18.6% ABV. Black with half a finger of quick fading light tan head. Aromas of bourbon, booze, dark chocolate, toasted nuts. Tastes of dark chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, bourbon, sweet nuts. Full body with a dry syrupy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2015
at 00:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a pure black color with a small white head. Very nice viscous body. The aroma is just nuts when you smell the wax. I mean, damn that wax was made of some sort of essence of hazelnuts and it skews it because the beer doesn’t smell like that at all. I mean, it is similar but nowhere near as robust. The beer has hazelnuts but none of the perfumy cake. The flavor is sharp, hot, hazelnuts, roast, sugary sweet almost rum base. Complex. Too much- yes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2015
at 13:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... dark black ... thin tan lacing ... soft massive bourbon ... nutty chocolate roast nose ... dark sweet malts ... dark roast fruits ... dark malts ... soft chocolate ... big sweet malts ... tooo bourbon ... dark sweet chcolate roast .. massive malts .. long big hazlenet
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2015
at 14:23