Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD)
(has 9 batches)
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.85
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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.
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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 2014 thanks to SolidFunk. Pours opaque black, small tan head, dissipates fairly quickly with some lacing. Aroma is licorice, brandy, roasted malt, molasses. Flavor is medium sweet, medium bitter, heavy licorice initially, fades a bit with time. burnt roasted malts, molasses and brandy. Full body, creamy mouthfeel. Interesting but not exceptional. Gets better as it warms with lingering bitterness and diminished licorice notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2017
at 18:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle (thx, L.-P. B.!). Vintage 2014. Bottle 0316/2100. Pours an oily almost black with a dark brown head. Aroma is barrel and some burnt sugar notes. Similar taste. Thx, God, that it is not such burnt sugar bomb as 3Mins to Midnight or Skeleton Key, but base is the same in my opinion. Also it is not so thick, despite it is 12.2% ABV and was pouring so oily. Overall it is a good stuff, not exciting, though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2017
at 01:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at Ratebeer Best Beer Festival. 31/01/2016. a viscous jet black coloured pour with a loose dark tan head. Aroma is smoked peat, meaty, salted. Flavour is composed of tangy salted roast, bitter roast earth, bitter coffee. Palate is medium full bodied, moderate carbonation and a woody finish. Lingering tangy bitter coffee.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2017
at 15:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Ratebeer Best. Pours a very dark brown with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is chocolate, roast, cognac, wood, vanilla. Medium body, roast, wood, vanilla, cognac, nice sweetness, very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2017
at 18:02
8.5/10
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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
8.6/10
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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