Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD)
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.76
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A fantastic intersection of oak, spirit character, and decadent stout — and a special release for our 10th Anniversary!
Returning for the first time since 2020, and the seventh time ever, BOYD is our Imperial Stout aged extensively in cognac barrels. It's feisty and warming, with low bitterness, appropriately mild carbonation, notes of anise, brown sugar, figs, and subtle maraschino cherry.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Just so good. Deep rich sweet toasty malted heaven with coffee, and toffee a little chocolate and big boozy cognac. Just so good. Sigh.
Stuu (34178) reviewed Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD) from Bellwoods Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Craig's. Pours black, nose is roasted, chocolate, vanilla, fruity, taste is similar, chewy, raisins, woody. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bring Out Your Dead on 10 Mar 2020 at 10:13 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Got in a BIF from Coronaeus. 500 ml bottle into snifter, 2018 vintage. Pours dense pitch black color with a 2 finger dense and rocky dark tan head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, caramel, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, apricot, cognac, toasted oak, red grape/wine, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of oaken vanilla, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Minimal booze in the aromas as it warms. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, cognac barrels, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, caramel, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, apricot, cognac, toasted oak, red grape/wine, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of oaken vanilla, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, woody, peppery, roast, charred bitterness; and cognac tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, caramel, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, apricot, cognac, toasted oak, red grape/wine, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark bread/crust, vanilla, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, cognac barrels, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet, and tart/tangy cognac balance; with no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness and tart/tangy cognac barrel notes after the finish. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety/bready, fairly sticky/chalky/acidic/tangy/tannic, and lightly slick mouthfeel that is great. Lightly increasing warmth of 11.4%, with minimal lingering barrel booze after the finish. Overall this is an amazing cognac barrel aged Russian imperial stout. All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, cognac barrels, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV, with the mellowly bitter/charred/acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish. Great soft feel. Amazing balance between super rich malts and cognac barrel presence/integration; with nice earthy hop presence, and restrained fruity yeast complexity. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and amazingly spot on style example as expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
18.05.2019, 0,5l bottle (2015 vintage, 2459 bottles) sampled @ 1420:
Nice light brown slightly bubbly-creamy mediumlasting head, deep dark pour. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish boozy, bark, oak, dark sugar, dark malts, raw licorice, booze, minerals, chocolate, spices, cough syrup, cognac. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish boozy, bark, spices, booze, oak, raw licorice, old rope, dark malts, dark sugar, chocolate, cough syrup, minerals, soil, cognac. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish boozy mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Thanks Justin for sharing the bottle! Poured into a taster showing brown with a finger of quickly dissipating latte colored foam. The nose shows moderately intense notes of sweet molasses and similar to a barley wine. The palate is full bodied and mildly carbonated with a mild alcoholic spice. Cognac forward with roasted malts on the mid-palate toward the end. Malts are a bit too burnt and subtracts from the entirety.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Vom Fass (Vintage 2018/11,4%) im Muted Horn Berlin 2019-03 getrunken. Dieses in Cognac Fässer gereifte Stout kommt sehr kräftig, mit kräftigen Schokoladennote daher. Im Hintergrund rundet eine Beerenfrucht das spannende Aroma ab. Die Tannine aus der Fassreifung sind hier mit einer leichten Bitterkeit bemerkbar. Ein wunderbares Stout.
TimE (11144) reviewed Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD) from Bellwoods Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pitch black color. Off white head. Rolo chocolate, tootsie rolls in the nose. Still fairly sweet but the cognac has dropped a lot. Very rich, with cognac coming out more In the mouth, body is a bit too thin, good oak, baker’s chocolate, caramel on the palate but the mouthfeel isn’t spectacular. Cognac lingers are the end. Great depth. Too bad about the mouth feel
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Bellwoods Bring Out Your Dead - Vintage 2017 ].Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee, ash, alcohol - sweet alcohol - cognac. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, dark malt, sweet malt, burnt - ash, roasted, chocolate - coffee, light wood - alcohol - sweet alcohol - cognac. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20180511] 7-4-8-3-15