Blueberry & Banana Pot de Crème
Hubbard's Cave in Niles, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Une Année BreweryStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating
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7.16
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Pop quiz, brewery hotshot: you transfer your Chocolate and Banana Pot de Crème to be packaged, but while tasting you quickly realize that someone must have added blueberries to the wrong tank...what do you do? Easy answer, you celebrate a brand new delicious beer!
Introducing Blueberry and Banana Pot de Crème....Belgian chocolate and over 400 lbs of banana purée in the boil were joined by a massive addition of blueberries and moderate addition of vanilla in the fermenter to make this totally deliberate creation a pastry sippers’ delight.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Black with a medium sized tan head. Toasty malt with strong blueberry and banana and faint vanilla. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16 ounce can into snifter, 2019-2 vintage. Pours dense opaque black color with a small fairly dense khaki head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Minimal spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, mushy bananas, blueberry, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, biscuit, and dark bread; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, leather, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, blueberry, banana, lactose, vanilla, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with big strength. Taste of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, mushy bananas, blueberry, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, biscuit, and dark bread; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, leather, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal, grassy, roasted bitterness; and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, mushy bananas, blueberry, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, biscuit, and dark bread; with lighter notes of licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, leather, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, blueberry, banana, lactose, vanilla, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a fantastic roast/hop bitter/sweet, and tart/tangy fruit balance; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/tartness. Light-medium carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, and slightly slick/sticky/chalky/acidic/tangy mouthfeel that is fantastic. Mild increasing warmth of 12%, with zero lingering booziness after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic flavored imperial milk/sweet stout. All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, blueberry, banana, lactose, vanilla, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV, with the minimally bitter/tart/tangy/drying finish; amazingly soft/silky feel. Perfectly balanced super rich dark/roasted malts, chocolate, jammy fruit, and lactose/vanilla flavors; with mild earthy hops and fruity yeast. Not overly sweet/heavy with lingering dryness. A highly enjoyable offering and amazing style example as expected. Not overwhelming on any aspect.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz can from Tavour. Black, slick pour, no head. Aroma is chocolate, bananas and light blueberry. Taste brings the blueberries forward, chocolate underneath. Sweet and rich.