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Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.98
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Golden stout brewed with cascara, coffee, cacao nibs and a touch of mosaic hops.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark gold in color with a two finger head. Aroma is coffee and grains. Taste is also coffee and grains.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:01
4.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 1
Overall 3
Got this old bottle at beer world of largo. Smells like boozy chocolate. Looks sorta like dark mud cloudy brown. Date code 122157181401E, whatever that means. However, since it was brewed around 2018, I think this is when it was bottled. There was no head out of the bottle and no visual sign of carbonation. Not even a pressure release when I removed the lid. This is confirmed on the palate, completely oily and flat. Looking in the bottle after I poured it into a glass, there is all kinds of sludge in there, some gunk came into my glass. First flavor impact is big alky laced coffee, reminds me of the whisky coffee my italian grampa used to drink when watching monochrome gunsmoke, after a hard day at the proprietorship. He'd drop 2 or 3 shots of some kind of whiskey into a big black cup of coffee my grandma used to brew. Now I'm possibly getting a little chocolate in there, but I don't think so. This is simply a totally flat alky coffee bomb that has not gained any manners in aging. They say high alky beers get better with age, and I have never tasted a fresh sample of this, but it is quite rude. Nothing like the impy stouts that gracefully age into a desirable delectable sherry. I'm just happy the calming influence of the alcohol content is relaxing me a little and making this a little easier to accommodate. Yea, wish I had a fresh sample to compare this to. Fortunately some of the dregs that got into my throat at the end of the glass did not cause any gag reflex. There, you have it.
Tried
from
Beerworld of Largo
on 12 Feb 2025
at 18:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz bottle, poured clear orange amber with minuscule and brief head. Roasted malt, chocolate and coffee aroma, with some booziness. Full bodied. Sweet chocolate and roasted malt up front, then coffee, with lingering alcohol finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2020
at 01:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
This beer is a hazy reddish-orange color with a medium off-white head that recedes gradually to a film. Stringy lacing. Aroma of fruit, coffee, malt and spice. Medium to full body with flavors of berry, earthy coffee, chocolate malt and pepper. The finish is fruity and roasty with a coffee aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2019
at 20:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a honey color with a medium sized foamy orange-white head. The aroma was malty, a touch smokey and had notes of hot pepper and coffee. The flavor was roasty, a bit smokey and had moderate hot pepper and coffee elements. Long finish of hot pepper and coffee. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2018
at 22:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle. Poured a light amber color, small off-white head. Aroma was some pleasant coffee notes. Light caramel, cherries. Flavor was similar, light caramel, cherry, and green coffee. Alcohol is present, but not overpowering. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2018
at 15:53
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. So the last \"Golden Stout\" I tried left me forever jaded to this made up style, which piqued my interest when I saw this one sitting there on the shelves of the beer store. I thought \"Let's give it another go\" and grabbed it. Way too much later, I finally popped the cap and poured a golden orange liquid into my tulip glass. Aromas are strong coffee, charcoal and chocolate, which creates an odd dissonance against the color of the body. Flavor is a really interesting punch of that coffee and chocolate against the lighter malt profile. Instead of the deep toasty tones of a normal stout, this beer structures the coffee over a layer of lighter malt... it's hard to pull the malt out, but maybe like an orange blossom, sugar and really light caramel presence that you almost have to search for to find. The lack fo the roasted tones is obvious, but it's harder to place what this beer sets against, so my description is a little weak here. Flavor is big and luscious, ABV warms nicely. Very interesting beer
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2018
at 02:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle, 9/13/18. Hazy amber, thin foamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of coffee, cherry, caramel, and an odd kinda cigarette thing. Not offputting though. Taste is toffee, smoke, booze, cherries, coffee. Medium bodied, hot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2018
at 02:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent release. Pours slightly hazy medium orange/amber color with a small fairly dense off white head with decent retention, that reduces to a minimal spotty lace cap that lingers. Minimal lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big nutty dark roast coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, honey, caramel, vanilla, cream, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of apricot, cherry, golden raisin, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Touch of booze in the aromas as it warms, but not overwhelming. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of coffee, cocoa, cascara tea, bready malt, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty dark roast coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, honey, caramel, vanilla, cream, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of apricot, cherry, golden raisin, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, peppery hop; and roasted coffee bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty dark roast coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, honey, caramel, vanilla, cream, toasted biscuit, apricot, cherry, golden raisin, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee, cocoa, cascara tea, bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/roast bitterness and spicy alcohol. Light-medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly slick/sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Lightly increasing warmth of 11.1%, with minimal booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is a very nice golden imperial stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee, cocoa, cascara tea, bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Haven't had many of this "style" before, but this is one of the better ones I can recall. Great balance of fruity/nutty coffee, cocoa, cascara tea, and bready malts; with balancing bitterness against sweetness. A very enjoyable and well made offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2018
at 00:15