French Toast
Hubbard's Cave in Niles, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Une Année BreweryStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating
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Score
7.31
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Imperial Stout fermented with cinnamon, maple syrup, vanilla, and lactose
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Pint can, 2019 vintage. Maple syrup aroma with notes of cinnamon, roasted malt, vanilla, lactose sugar, coffee and chocolate. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has little retention and little lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, cinnamon, lactose sugar and chocolate flavors as well as having a medium body and smooth mouthfeel. Finishes smooth with vanilla, coffee and maple syrup flavors. Still pretty good after 7-ish years.
Tried
from Can
from
Coaltrain Wine and Liquor
on 24 May 2026
at 06:58
9.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle to snifter.
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a finger's worth of khaki foamy head which slid off at a nice pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: big roasted dark malts, toasty coffee beans, then cinnamon, maple syrupy vibes; subtle nutmeg, slight vanilla and sweet cream
Flavor: blends all the prior noted aromas together nice and sweet with an ample roasty backing for balance; light aftertaste of dark toast, cinnamon and maple syrup
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat a sipper, eloquently smooth along my tongue with just enough cinnamon to nutmeg strength to slow down any of that smoothness (this is almost unfathomable how well balanced this is!) and then the finish is extremely well balanced through the maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla and chocolate doses
Overall: another very well done evening dessert beer by Hubbard Cave, I would absolutely love to come back to this!
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a finger's worth of khaki foamy head which slid off at a nice pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: big roasted dark malts, toasty coffee beans, then cinnamon, maple syrupy vibes; subtle nutmeg, slight vanilla and sweet cream
Flavor: blends all the prior noted aromas together nice and sweet with an ample roasty backing for balance; light aftertaste of dark toast, cinnamon and maple syrup
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat a sipper, eloquently smooth along my tongue with just enough cinnamon to nutmeg strength to slow down any of that smoothness (this is almost unfathomable how well balanced this is!) and then the finish is extremely well balanced through the maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla and chocolate doses
Overall: another very well done evening dessert beer by Hubbard Cave, I would absolutely love to come back to this!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2026
at 17:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Beera Bar Riga, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has intense maple syrup and cinnamon upfront, with some vanilla in back. Flavour is adjunct city, with intense cinnamon upfront, followed by maple syrup and vanilla. If that sounds sweet, it’s actually not too bad; the cinnamon cuts down on the sweetness, such that the finish is quite bitter and spicy. Could use some barrels or at least some roasty underpinning to help complexify it. Not bad for what it is but not exactly my thing.
Tried
from Draft
at
BEERA Bar
on 18 Nov 2025
at 19:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Keg.
Pitch black. Aroma of cinnamon bun from a meter away. Plums, coffee, pralines. Pastry sweet. Lingering plum liqueur feel (slivovitz)?
Pitch black. Aroma of cinnamon bun from a meter away. Plums, coffee, pralines. Pastry sweet. Lingering plum liqueur feel (slivovitz)?
Tried
from Draft
at
Olutravintola Pikkulintu (Ruttopuisto)
on 16 Jul 2025
at 11:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Smell of roasted malt, molasses, faint tobacco. Black colour, light brown head. Aroma of molasses, roasted malt, sugar. Oversweet. Foamy carbon.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bier-Bier
on 22 May 2025
at 15:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Taphouse, Copenhagen (11/10/2024) (12% version) - Dark sweet roasted malty with lots of maple and caramel malty sweetness, some chocolate, spices, full bodied, spiced sweet maple laden finish. Great pastry action.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Oct 2024
at 09:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Black with a small beige head. Strong caramel, cinnamon, maple and vanilla. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 20:23
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Undated can drunk 1/15/23. Dark. Tan head to ring immediately. Smells of medium roast and balancing vanilla and sweet base malt. Not overdone on the adjuncts, but the lactose is prominent. Not boozey. I will say, it tastes like lightly charred French toast. Not punishingly sweet. Kind of what is expected. Syrupy, quite sweet, lots of adjunct flavor. Burnt roast on the end is the best part, I think. Lingering vanilla bitterness. Super low carbonation. Warming alcohol builds up. Really just not worth putting this much booze in my body. The payoff isn't there in the case of this beer. Rather thin on the very end, as well. Alcohol emerges in the nose as it warms/breathes.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2023
at 20:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
16oz can pours an oily, dark brown with some beige head. Nose is maple, vanilla, caramel, malt, some cinnamon and nutmeg too. Flavor is sweet, big sarsaparilla, then the maple and caramel, mostly. Full bodied, sweet finish. 7 3 7 2 13
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2022
at 14:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a can. Pours a clear dark cola with a tan head. Aromas of, well, french toast. Flavors are sweet maple syrup.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2022
at 19:15