Dark Star - Bourbon Barrel Coffee Cacao Vanilla
Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.91
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Imperial Oatmeal Stout with Coffee, Cacao, and Vanilla Aged in Bourbon Barrels
Coffee Cacao Vanilla Barrel-Aged Dark Star is a blend of 24, 18, 12, and 8-month Bourbon Barrel-Aged Dark Star in 7-12-year old Kentucky bourbon barrels. This special edition adds coffee, cacao, and vanilla with the roasted and chocolate malts to complement the smooth oats and bring you a stout delight wrapped in the gentle embrace of bourbon barrel-aged warmth. A touch of sweetness dances in balance with the hops to finish with a wave, and then she’s gone.
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale, Roast Barley, Crystal-60, Chocolate, and Carafa-2 malts with Flaked Oats and Columbus, Willamette, and Cascade hops with coffee, cacao, and vanilla.
Coffee Cacao Vanilla Barrel-Aged Dark Star is a blend of 24, 18, 12, and 8-month Bourbon Barrel-Aged Dark Star in 7-12-year old Kentucky bourbon barrels. This special edition adds coffee, cacao, and vanilla with the roasted and chocolate malts to complement the smooth oats and bring you a stout delight wrapped in the gentle embrace of bourbon barrel-aged warmth. A touch of sweetness dances in balance with the hops to finish with a wave, and then she’s gone.
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale, Roast Barley, Crystal-60, Chocolate, and Carafa-2 malts with Flaked Oats and Columbus, Willamette, and Cascade hops with coffee, cacao, and vanilla.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown. Medium brown head. Nutty aroma with a fair bit of vanilla to it, and some light roastiness. On the palate, this is pretty thick, and has a touch of acidity. There's a fair bit of sweetness to it. The vanilla is gentle and nice, with a rich coffee accent. A bit tart, and I think that's because of the coffee.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2022
at 02:29
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is decadent, with loads of intense coffee and bourbon barrels upfront, followed by a little vanilla and cocoa. Flavour is rich and decadent, with intense coffee upfront, followed by bourbon barrels, and with subtle accents of vanilla and cocoa. That's a lot of coffee and bourbon — doesn't seem all that different from the Coffee Dark Star. Viscous, rich palate, but far from abrasive and cloying. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2022
at 07:34
9/10
Bottle shared at Lazy Sunday THT. Black with light tan ring head. Sweet deep and dry roasted chocolate malts, cinnamon, coffee, cocoa, coconut, vanilla. Massive sweet and bitter, boozy knuckles, nice roasted malts, leathery dry roastiness. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2021
at 17:59
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Black with light brown head. Lots of coffee, cocoa, dry oak, earthy roasted malts, vanilla, hazelnuts, bourbon, toffee. Solid sweet and over medium bitter. Full bodied. Nice balance, not too sweet, but also not too much bourbon. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2021
at 16:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 650 ml shared with Miro B, Max and Zec. Black with tan head. Chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, bourbon. Smooth. Medium bodied. Balanced, but missing bit of a kick other BA Fremonts had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2021
at 17:37
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Roasty, slightly sweetish and earthy with some oatmeal, bourbon, coffee, vanilla, cocoa and chocolate. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2021
at 13:08
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at share from Chris D: pours black with a beige head. Aroma is coffee, cocoa, booze, bourbon, barrel. Bourbon is subdued. Somewhat hot and slightly boozy. Vanilla bourbon kick. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2021
at 22:35
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, at share, thanks to Chris D. Pours black. Cacao, blackberry, tobacco, salted caramel, vanilla, bourbon, capsicum, nice heft of booze. Medium body. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2021
at 00:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Flaska från Hopt, 2021. Svart med beige krona. Kaffe, kakaonibs, mörk choklad, kex, vaniljwafers, vanilj. Kaffetonerna drar kanske något åt grön paprika, men tar inte överhanden. Beska och bitterhet från både kakaon och kaffet. Bourbon, fat.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2021
at 07:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Waxed bomber. Aroma has notes of coffee, dark chocolate, vanilla, dark bread, leather, tobacco, licorice. Pours like motor oil with a half finger dark tan head that falls into a ring quickly. Taste has a moderate sweetness tempered by significant dark chocolate and black coffee-like bitterness. Lovely velvety mouthfeel. Way less sweet than I was expecting, which is welcome. It's a great beer, but I find the whole overall impression a little lacking compared to other Fremont barrel-aged beers I've had in the past. Or maybe I'm just getting burnt out on pastry stouts. I dunno.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2021
at 21:07