Arbre Imperial Stout: Light Toast
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.25
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Doing these side by side, 75CL split a few ways. Light toast version
A - Black with some maroon, reddish edges, 1 finger head that sticks around on the edges.
S - It smells really nice. Lots of vanilla, some marshmallow and oak. oak is certainly light but present.
T - Very light for what it is. Not a lot of mouthfeel, very thin, has a homebrew taste to it. Chocolate, cookies and tannins.
M - The mouthfeel is just really straight forward. Not winning many awards
O - This was an interesting beer but certainly not impressive so far.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
This beer pours black with some brown around the edges, and a medium beige head that diminishes steadily to a film. Small patches of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of oak, malt and fruit. Medium to full-bodied with flavors of roast malt, oaky vanilla and dark fruits. The finish is roasty and oaky with a malty aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up sugary dark roasted malts and chocolate with a bit of black strap molasses and burnt malts in the background. The taste delivers smooth molasses sweetened dark roasted malts to burnt malts and moving into chocolate and booze. Toward the finish it starts to thin out some, more so than the other variants, and where there is the faintest wood going on there seems to be a mineral like sensation. This lacks the wood char that seem to pull the others together and give it more depth.