Arborescence
Bottle Logic Brewing in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.36
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We built a bold stout base to age in 15-gallon bourbon barrels from Los Angeles's R6 Distilling and Evanston, Illinois's FEW Spirits. Where our typical 53-gallon bourbon barrels layer hints of oak, vanilla, caramel, and just a nip of bourbon spirit into a finished beer, the increased contact area of liquid to wood across this medley of small vessels amplifies these rich flavors and makes for a barrel-forward, 15.21% ABV finished product.
We've made elegant use of adjuncts carefully selected to complement this rare barrel character. Summer blackberries weave an earthy, subtle sweetness through the liquid. A finishing filter of hazelnuts adds smooth, nutty depth. A faint dusting of allspice finishes the piece with almost-imperceptible nuance. This is the bourbon drinker's answer to pastry stouts.
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DvdP (5048) reviewed Arborescence (2020) from Bottle Logic Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Brownish black, fine brown head. Smells bourbon (whiskey?), some slight spice. Great thickness, smooth, soft, pretty boozy. Taste is mostly barrel, and I do get some allspice flavours. Hazelnuts, are you sure? A slight fruityness that may be blackberry.
Tastes more like bourbon than anything, small fruity finish that really comes off like booze from the barrel more than anything, nose is definitely growing! #drinking_chain. Some chewy hazelnut in there. Tastes kinda like a hangover at room temp.
Super herbal, nutty on the nose and palate