Beyond Good and Evil - 2016 Maple Syrup Barrel Edition
Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.79
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Bomber at share. Dark brown, flat. Maple dominates thecaroma. Taste brings it all together. Superb.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is big bourbon barrel some maple syrup lots of rich malts and chocolate. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate bourbon barrel kick and a sweet maple end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at the brewery, 3/23/18.
Dark cocoa-ebony, undetermined clarity. Tan head atop fades steadily to a ring.
Boozy, sharp, dark as hell (malt-wise) with licorice, ash and tar featuring prominently. Definitely not a dessert stout...There's very deep, rich, intense dark fruit and just loads and loads of unrelenting roasted barley acidity. But what it really suffers from is the raw alcohol.
In the mouth there is an immediate caramel malt character with milk and dark chocolate, as well as light honey-like richness. Quickly adding to this is strong bread, soy and other oxidative notes with lingering cardboard. Carbonation is super low and rather loose creating a watery feel to the beer, despite a fairly soft malt texture. Treacle and caramel continue on with strong maple sugar throughout. Overall, quite a letdown. Loose texture/mouthfeel and overly maple-forward (this is certainly exacerbated by the low/under carbonation). Way too much oxidation for its age. Hopefully just an off bottle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle during bottle share; opaque brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has light maple and bourbon, taste has vanilla, sticky malts, really sweet, chocolate,
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draft at the source. Pours almost black with a creamy beige head. Aroma of bourbon, toffee, maple syrup and oak. Taste is bourbon, toffee, maple syrup, oak, roasted malt, butterscotch, vanilla. Sweet maple syrup finish. Fantastic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Sampled at the tderoeck tasting for adamchandler. Pants are optional ! Pours black, small grey head. Smell is roasted, bourbon. Taste is full, thick dark malts. Intense maple, very thick body, perfect carbo. This is truly an exceptional beer !
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750 ml. growler @ "Adam Chandler Visiting (for real this time)" Tasting. Filled sometime in December 206 I believe. Meant to be cellared max 2 weeks. Mainly because the amount of sugar in this which might have cause it to exposed. No one was harmed. Black with almost no head; Nose is mellow umami, surprisingly big hazelnut, roasted notes, big sugar, sweet, not overly so. Taste is sweet maple, sugar, big pralines, slightly umami, chocolate syrup, hazelnut, faintly boozy. Low carbonation molasses & pralines body. Very neat stuff, could use bit more depth for me, slightly less umami, nice stuff all the same. Thanks to Marina for making vegan Magnum ice-cream coated with this beer. Amazing stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Hill Farmstead Beyond Good and Evil (2016 Maple Syrup Barrel Edition) (by Hill Farmstead Brewery):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
27/V/17 - 75cl swing-top bottle growler @ Adam Chandler Visiting (for real this time) Tasting (home) - BB: n/a, late December 2016 vintage (2017-677) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, creamy beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet lots of vanilla, bourbon, soft roast, lots of dark chocolate, smells great! MF: no carbon, full body. Taste: very sweet, sugary, bourbon, vanilla, bit sugary, quite some alcohol, caramel, more vanilla. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, sugary, vanilla, caramel, some molasses, dried fruits.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750 ml growler. Pitch black, no head. Aroma is maple, chocolate, mild roast. The flavor is decadent. Deep maple throughout... Dark chocolate, mild roast.
Full body, creamy texture. Mild sugar. Sweet not overly but.... Very sweet without doubt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Growler - pours black - nose and taste of sweet maple syrup, bourbon, oak, sweet chocolate and candied smoked bacon -full body