Velvet Rush
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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Borrowing elements from both high-end craft cocktails and moody jazz clubs, Velvet Rush takes the bourbon barrel-aged brown ale up an octave with free-flowing notes of coffee, chocolate and vanilla extract. Milk sugar aids in weaving together this complex tapestry of flavors to create a unique sipping experience that really ties the room together.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle at home. Opaque dark brown to black color, full sized off-white head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, sweetish, liquor. Flavor is malts, sweetish in a subtle way, with a distant soft touch of raisins, light bourbon notes but also very subtle,light coffee, light chocolate and vanilla. Very well balanced. Very nice. Lovely beer.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2026
at 22:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 2021 vintage. Coffee aroma with notes of chocolate, lactose sugar, vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has some retention and a thin ring of lacing. Starts with rich chocolate, lactose sugar and oak flavors as well as having a rich, full body and silky smooth mouthfeel. Finishes quite smooth with coffee, vanilla and bourbon flavors. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Veterans Liquor
on 03 Nov 2025
at 01:02
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark brown color with medium beige head. Aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla. Taste is coffee, coffee bitterness, milk chocolate, vanilla, nuts, bourbon. Bit boozy. Nice sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
from Beer Republic
on 18 Aug 2025
at 19:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Malty aroma and taste, light roastyness, coffee, caramel notes, chocolate, vanilla notes, medium bitter, light sweet. Medium to full body, malty choco coffee bitter sweer finish with warming alcohol notes. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2025
at 22:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Beer Republic. Aroma is nuts, dark malt, caramel, bourbon, vanilla, beany coffee. Flavour is medium sweet and mild bitter. Medium body. Wonderfully nutty aroma, some bourbon, body could be a bit more full.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2025
at 22:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown with a two-finger, tan head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee and vanilla. Taste more like a milk stout thab a brown ale.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:39
7/10
Magus, kohvi, röst, linnaseline. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2024
at 18:56
6/10
Sweet, coffee, alcohol, sweet, lactose, chocolate
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2024
at 18:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Brætspilscafeen Horsens @ Bønnerup. Pours dark brown with a tan head, lacings. Aroma of malt, rich coffee, vanilla, chocolate, bourbon. Flavor is sweet, malty, coffee, candy sugar, chocolate, vanille, bourbon, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet finish with warming alcohol. 010624
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2024
at 21:04
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4
Aus der Flasche (bottled 29.07.2021) im 2024-0x getrunken. Irgendwas stört mich hier an dieser Aromakombination von malzigen Aromen, Kaffee und Bourbon Fässern, obwohl ich eigentlich diese Aromen mag. Aber hier ist es nicht stimmig.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2024
at 16:43