Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.57
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Dark Hollow blends the miracle of two crafts--brewing and distillation--to create a work greater than the sum of its parts. An Imperial Stout has been aged in charred American oak bourbon barrels still dripping with uncut whiskey. For 100 days the young beer patiently breathes in and out of the wood, gaining complexity, character, and serious attitude. This ale is always bottle conditioned and can be enjoyed immediately upon its release from the brewery...or five years later, when you dust off the last vintage bottle from your cellar to share with good company.…
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is roasted malt and wood. Medium mouth, similar flavors to aroma, nice barrel character, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2015
at 16:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Black colour with a tan head. Flavour is coffee, malt, licorice, hop, vanilla, bourbon, chocolate. Full body. Very nice beer. KRS 080814.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2015
at 03:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shared bomber, snifter. Smooth and mild palate for a bourbon stout. I found that interesting, but I didn’t pick up the complexity described by others.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2014
at 17:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black pour with tan head. The aroma carries cocoa, vanilla, roast malts and a sweet fruitiness similar to chocolate covered cherries. The flavor is well balanced between the sweetness and the roast. No hops here. The bourbon also isn’t pronounced enough to be picked out.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2014
at 15:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and bourbon. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter with warming alcohol. Oily. 121114
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2014
at 13:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Black with medium light brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, bourbon, little vanilla and wood. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, sweet, bourbon, vanilla, little liquorice and medium bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2014
at 13:20
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Christers. Pours black with a fading tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, vanilla, bourbon, chocolate, light dark fruit, raisin. Flavor is malt, chocolate, bourbon, oak, raisin, alcohol. Medium to full body, average carbonation, light warming alcohol. 121114
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2014
at 13:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Provisional beer with stable, firm, sticky, yellowish beige head and black colour. Aroma of candi syrup, cocoa, soy sauce, old sherry, balsamic vinegar, whisky, liquorice, coffee grounds, cloves, peat, vanilla and candied fruit. Soft candi sweetness in the onset, lots of candied fruits, salty soy sauce touch, above average carbo, oily and smooth mouthfeel, caramel, very chocolatey maltiness, roasted coffee-like bitterness in the finish with warming, bourbon-like alcohol and citrussy and peppery hop bitterness. Nice one.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2014
at 06:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours black with a small light brown head. Aroma reveals loads of bourbon, followed by vanilla and some cocoa. Flavour is complex, with lovely bourbon notes, vanilla, cocoa and just enough sweetness. Bourbon barrels are use to perfection. Not extraordinary, but this is really nice. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2014
at 23:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle from Oliver’s Beverage Center. Aroma is not good, red wine grapes and sour oak.
Just from the nose I can tell it is infected. Yep... Sour oak, red wine and dirty socks. Damn it, maybe one day I will get to re-rate it. But with "so much beer, so little time". It’s hard to know. Re-rate ....375 ml bottle shared by Willrunforbeer. Aroma is light bourbon with weak roast, and chocolate.
Body is what I look for in the style, fuller side of medium with the bourbon treatment showing in a light form. Charred malts, oak, chocolate bar and light molasses. Mouthfeel has a creaminess that I look for in this style, glad to have had a chance to re-rate.
Just from the nose I can tell it is infected. Yep... Sour oak, red wine and dirty socks. Damn it, maybe one day I will get to re-rate it. But with "so much beer, so little time". It’s hard to know. Re-rate ....375 ml bottle shared by Willrunforbeer. Aroma is light bourbon with weak roast, and chocolate.
Body is what I look for in the style, fuller side of medium with the bourbon treatment showing in a light form. Charred malts, oak, chocolate bar and light molasses. Mouthfeel has a creaminess that I look for in this style, glad to have had a chance to re-rate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2014
at 18:09