Bellwoods Brewery Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD)

Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD)

 

Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Stout - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.76
ABV: 10.6% IBU: - Ticks: 73
Imperial Stout Aged in Cognac Barrels

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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8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
I wasn’t gonna drink this tonight but once I found out Season 7 of Walking Dead had started it was just such a perfect beer to crack and pair it with: Bellwoods Bring out Your Dead 2015 Vintage Imperial Stout Aged for 12 months in Cognac Barrels. Inky black with a rusty head that verged on purple but didn’t stick around. If the dead are coming you tend not to linger I guess. Awesomely intense aroma: Cacao, treacle, sweet berries & stonefruit from the cognac but the stout mellowed that out though there’s still some of that 13% boozy heat apparent. Body as thick as motor oil but with a somewhat sharp carbonation. The stout gives you coffee grounds, tobacco, coarse cooking chocolate then the cognac throws in some berry syrupy sweetness, heat and charred wood character. Am I drinking a beer aged in a coffin that was doused in cognac and charred to a crisp? Could be... awesome.
Tried on 24 Oct 2016 at 10:41

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Draft at RB Best Fest 16: Poured a pitch black with brown head. Aroma is cognac boozy. Taste is boozy, cognac, coffee, super roasty malt.
Tried from Draft on 13 Sep 2016 at 23:42

8.3/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from ruddick. Many thanks! Dark brown/black colour, roasted malts, some fruitiness, lots of cognac. Very cognac-like beer. But well balanced. Good!
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jul 2016 at 07:24

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Brown bottle, 500 ml, 2015 vintage, via Billy Hamilton -CANBIF 2016 (thank you!), savoured on July 4 2016 eye: black, opaque, nice dark brown head that turns into a ring, slight lacing; nose: roasted malt, woody, cognac, molasses, brown sugar, slight burnt malt; mouth: roasted malt, woody, cognac, molasses, brown sugar, slight burnt malt, alcohol, alcohol warmth, light astringency, finale in molasses with light presence of cognac, full body, below-average carbonation, mildly sweet, lightly velvety and lightly silky texture; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml, millésime 2015, via Billy Hamilton - CANBIF 2016 (thank you!), savourée le 4 juillet 2016; œil : noire, opaque, belle mousse brun foncé qui se transforme en un anneau, très légère dentelle; nez : malt torréfié, boisé, cognac, mélasse, cassonade, très léger malt brûlé; bouche : malt torréfié, boisé, cognac, mélasse, cassonade, très léger malt brûlé, alcool, chaleur d’alcool, légère astringence, finale en mélasse avec légère présence de cognac, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement veloutée et légèrement soyeuse; en résumé : bien aimé
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jul 2016 at 17:28

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Où, Quand, Comment : Bouteille courtoisie de Johnsense, dégustée le 7/9/2013.
Visuel : Couleur : noire. Apparence : opaque.
Arôme : Boisé (cognac), fruité (fruits foncés), malt rôti, léger de chocolat, notes de tabac et d’anis.
Goût : Entrée de bouche : Goût fruité (fruits foncés et petits fruits foncés) avec des notes d’anis ainsi que quelques traces de tabac. Une dominante de malt rôti assez boisé (cognac) et de chocolat noir est bien présente avec des notes de café, de caramel brûlé et d’alcool très doux.
En bouche : Corps : moyen-rond. Effervescence : moyenne. Texture : riche, légèrement huileuse et crémeuse. Finale : longue-moyenne et aux notes sèches, composée d’une légère amertume de rôti, de café avec des notes boisées et d’alcool.
Tried on 20 Mar 2016 at 08:08

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
[1/31/16] Draught sample at RateBeer Best festival in Santa Rosa. Black. Wonderful aroma of bourbon, chocolate, vanilla, cookies. Sweet flavor with chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, roast, bitter finish, a bit boozy. Full-bodied.
Tried on 13 Feb 2016 at 02:40

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
On tap at RB festival
Black with a small tan head, some lacing. Aroma is roasted malts, caramel and sweet chocolate. Flavors of roasted malts, coffee and woody
Nice and smooth. My first beer of the fest and one of the better ones of the day.
Tried from Draft on 03 Feb 2016 at 11:15

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
On tap at rbwg festival. pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is the cognac lots of barrel roast malts coffee molasses. Taste is more of the heavy sweetness vanilla roast malts cognac big booze and a great end.
Tried from Draft on 31 Jan 2016 at 19:12

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
(2015)(bottle) clear very dark brown colour with a small brown head; thi palate; aroma of cognac, milk chocolate, roast; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish, strong alcohol
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2016 at 18:33

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
The beer is black with a small tan head. Brown at the edges. The aroma has a big brown sugar note with a little bit of raisiny sweetness. Sugar cookie, molasses, mild roast. Pretty big vinous, cognac barrel note. Fairly sweet. Lots of barrel flavor. A little bit of acidity.
Tried on 08 Oct 2015 at 00:01