Entropy
Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.17
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DSG (25989) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[2/1/17] Bottle at Mystic Brewery in Chelsea. Dark brown. Complex aroma with wine, caramel, vanilla, bourbon, dark fruits, oak, cookies, a bit of chocolate. Sweet flavor with vanilla, bourbon, wine, dark fruits, caramel, some cookies. Rounded mouthfeel. Very good.
Chalumeaux (5240) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from bottle dark brown with minimal head. Aromas of caramel malt bread brown sugar and vanilla. Taste follows aroma with a nice barrel finish.
CosmicCharlie (9705) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2013 bottle. Pours deep brown into a snifter. Crackly tan head recedes to nothing. Alcohol-soaked dark dried pit fruit aromas. Dark caramel and hot soy upfront turning to pit fruit before the lasting alcohol burn.
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle- pours dark brown- nose and taste of vanilla, oak, chocolate, dark nuts - medium body
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2014 bottle, sampled at Ball Square Fine Wines, 12/4/15.
A ruddy brown body has a tan ring of bubbles that rapidly fizzles. Clarity is moderate to moderately-high.
Bourbon, brandy, light milk chocolate and all sorts of brown sugar, vanilla, concentrated honey and other such notes. It’s much more of a Belgian nose than an American barleywine. Though it’s still difficult to pinpoint exactly what’s going on here. Certainly the alcohol adds to the aroma but as the beer is going on two years old, it’s much more mellow heat-wise. Smells pretty good, overall. If I was pressed, I’d say dry milk chocolate, soft cherry/strawberry/apple esters, mild toffee and lightly spicy whiskey are the key aromatics here.
Pretty close to still, though very chewy and appropriately attenuated, with plentiful fruitiness, light caramel/toffee sweetness and nutty wood notes with just a touch of light bourbon mixing with the chocolate character. Surprisingly mellow, though maybe that’s not such a surprise given its age now.
It seems like they made a lot of the most recent batch (batch 2?, early 2014?) and have done periodic releases, as well as the De Cacao release (a portion aged on cacao nibs).
Leighton (35102) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at the brewery - Chelsea, Boston. Pours clear, honey-amber with a few bubbles for a head; the beer is mostly flat. Rich stuff with signs of mild oxidation, toffee, bread, old wood, mellow leaves, some leathery fruits. Full bodied with soft carbonation and oily mouthfeel. Warming finish with further oxidation characteristics - leather, toffee, well-ripened fruits. Tasty and pretty interesting. But bottles of this beer are wicked expensive.
Drake (22940) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the 8th Richmond Industry Gathering, 12/1/13. Pours a viscous dark rust color, no head. Aroma of big boozy cognac, raisin and toffee. The taste is toffee, big whiskey notes, apples, peppery notes. Medium bodied, very hot. Interesting, but needs aging.
johnnnniee (7516) reviewed Entropy from Mystic Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
I got the opportunity to try this at the brewery today at the founders party. Pours a solid dark brown with barely any head that never really disappears. Smells like an aged German dopplebock at first. Lots of dark and burnt sugars, melanoid, dark dried fruits like prunes and raisins with a touch of alcohol. Taste is sweet with lots of burnt sugars, caramel and dark dried fruits. A bit of warming alcohol reminds you this is a serious beer, but never gets harsh. Medium to thick body, light level of carbonation with a sweet sticky mouthfeel. Wow this stuff is great. 18 % and it drinks like its 8. I can’t wait to get a few bottles of this when it gets released.