Barrel Roll: Laval
Hangar 24 Craft Brewing in Redlands, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.22
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of soured dark fruit, brandy, sour cream and bourbon - medium body
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Barrel Roll: Laval from Hangar 24 Craft Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 c&c from Bine & Vine at 11.5%. Pours dark brown black with a creamy/foamy tan head. Lots of booze and chocolate in the aroma. Definitely full bodied. Flavor is dark treacle with arguably more brandy than bourbon. There's a wood note - can't tell if it makes this slightly sourish or slightly astringent. This isn't dry. So much in this that I didn't notice the chocolate for a bit. Also had trouble deciding about lactose, but ok, there's lactose. Also some dark fruit that could be sweet. Raisins? The flavors are complex and reasonably strong. But somehow I'm not as fond of this as of other BA IS ales. Nice change of pace tho.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed Barrel Roll: Laval from Hangar 24 Craft Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sampled at ACBF2017, bottle, courtesy of Dutch guys. Pours black with light brown head. Chocolate, bit lactic, roasted malts, vanilla, bourbon. Sweet. Warming. Full bodied.
DSG (25977) reviewed Barrel Roll: Laval from Hangar 24 Craft Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
[1/29/17] Bottle/Can/Crowler/Growler at the RateBeer award ceremony bottle share at Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. Black. Chocolate, fudge, roast, bourbon, vanilla, full-bodied, thick. Really great.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Barrel Roll: Laval from Hangar 24 Craft Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Pours black with small tan head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong roasted malt, dark chocolate, wood, bourbon, vanilla. Thick body, roast, dark chocolate, wood, vanilla, nice sweetness, boozy finish, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750ml bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice coffee roast malts bourbon barrel vanilla. Taste is more of the nice bourbon barrel vanilla coffee.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is rich with a lot of milk chocolate and some lighter dark chocolate. Light roast notes with hints of bourbon and brandy. Some light dark fruit notes and hints of oak. Pours black with a medium large, thick, creamy, mocha head that shows really nice retention as it slowly recedes to a thin ring that lasts on the edges. Light lacing and moderate length legs. Flavor is rather sweet with lots of milk chocolate. Some lighter dark chocolate and roast notes. Some light dark fruit notes with down raisin and prune. Some toffee and caramel notes. Light brandy and bourbon flavors with a light oak note. Lactose note is pretty light which is nice. Light alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is fairly full bodied, silky and creamy with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, a pretty nice cream stout and I don’t really like these lactose stouts. Nice chocolate notes with good barrel characteristics.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 ml bottle. Black beer with a thick light brown head leaving some lacing. The aroma is full of chocolate. It leans toward the milk chocolate end of the spectrum but it’s a nice full flavor with darker notes, as well. Big caramel base underneath, though it doesn’t overshadow the chocolate. The barrel is well integrated and adds a pleasant and fairly strong vanilla note. Light fruitiness. Some sweet cherry and very mild grape. A little bit of cola. Very little booziness. Just a hint of oak. The taste is rich and very creamy. While strong, the creaminess doesn’t push the beer into pure lactose territory. I think the barrel helps with that, as the finish is cleaned up with dark chocolate, oak and a more identifiable spirit flavor - you get some definite brandy flavor to go with the bourbon sweetness. Overall, fairly sweet, though not syrupy as expected. Luxurious, soft mouthfeel. Fairly thick but more soft than pure brownie batter. Big brown sugar, toffee, caramel. Really nice stuff.