Woodrunner Whisky Stout
Kingsville Brewing Company in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout Regular|
Score
7.06
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from the lcbo. Black pour, with a large brown head. Sweet chocolate Aroma, nice roast and soft whiskey, and earthy vanilla. Silky mouth feel, soft carb. Finish is subtly sweet, lots of malty chocolate. Quite impressed, the barrel is subtle and really nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Not bad, veins of chocolate and caramel outlined with roast and a slight coffee bitterness on the back end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This stout poured a deep black colour with a creamy, brown head. Nice lacing. Scents include heavy malt, whiskey and Melloids cough drops. First swig was smooth, with flavours of black cherries, smoke, toffee and dark roast coffee. Finish is roasted dark caramel with med-smoke flavour lingering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Can. Pours black with a large light brown head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has sweet dark grains and as bit of nuttiness with whiskey and oak supporting. Flavor has sweet dark grains and whiskey with a bit of roasted malts and a slightly thin finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 6/30/2017. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky tan head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, whisky, toasted oak, nuts, and dark/brown bread; with light notes of coconut, molasses, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, pepper, and roast/toast/oak earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, whisky barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, whisky, toasted oak, nuts, and dark/brown bread; with light notes of coconut, molasses, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, pepper, and roast/toast/oak earthiness. Light roast/char/herbal bitterness and whisky/oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, whisky, toasted oak, nuts, dark/brown bread, light molasses/smoke, herbal, pepper, and roast/toast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, whisky barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying/acrid flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.7%, with zero barrel booziness lingering after the finish. Overall this is a delicious barrel aged American stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, whisky barrels, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Not huge on barrels, but definitely adequate. Nicely rich and well rounded stout malt complexity, with nice barrel presence. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.