Blessed (2019 - 2021)
Anchorage Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.54
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Blessed is a blend of 1 and 3 year old bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stouts finished on TONS of coconut and Madagascar vanilla beans. It tastes like if you took a waffle cone and filled it with bourbon soaked German chocolate cake then drizzled it with burnt caramel.
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9.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle shared at Ghost Whale. Pours jet black with dirty tan bubbles around the glass. Looks thick and viscous. Just a swirl of head. Aroma is loads of coconut, vanilla, cocoa, boozy dried fruit, bourbon comes through. Taste is vanilla, chocolate, boozy dried fruit, coconut, bourbon comes through, hint of coffee. Starts sweet and the slips into booze. Booze is balanced in really well. Possibly one of the best beers I've tried.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2022
at 18:49
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle sample shared with E. Black with beige head. Coconut galore. Some cocoa, oak, bourbon and vanilla. Very sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2022
at 15:39
9/10
Doesn't feel as defining or revolutionary as the OG, has some hints of this year's base from others released recently OR that's my imagination, either way it's still a stacked coconut boozy delicious thang.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2022
at 18:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours inky black, very small nearly black head, some wispy lacing. Desert Aroma, tons of coconut fudge, bourbon, vanilla. Flavor is sweet like ice cream topping, crazy. Full body. Silky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2021
at 00:23
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle. Black color with beige head. Aroma is super coconut, vanilla, caramel, sweet and intense but really luscious. Taste is thick, the same, crème brûlée. Super thick, low carbonation. It indeed tastes like if you took a waffle cone and filled it with bourbon soaked German chocolate cake then drizzled it with burnt caramel. Amazing stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2021
at 14:09
10/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2021
at 17:17
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Power tasting at Phill's, bottle
Oily black colour, no head. One of the richest beers I ever had, with dark chocolate, coconut, vanilla, everything exponentially intense, and equally so in aroma and flavour; burnt sugar, marshmallows, bourbon, maple syrup, marzipan. Gently warming alcohol. Fantastic sipper.
Oily black colour, no head. One of the richest beers I ever had, with dark chocolate, coconut, vanilla, everything exponentially intense, and equally so in aroma and flavour; burnt sugar, marshmallows, bourbon, maple syrup, marzipan. Gently warming alcohol. Fantastic sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2020
at 03:45
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375ml (thx, Jarred K.!) at Phill's. Appearance: very dark brown with a brown head. Aroma: huge amount of vanilla, chocolate, coconut. Taste: along the same lines, very sweet, dark fruits, waffles notes. Overall: very nice 👌.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2020
at 03:37
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375mL bottle, pours a very oily, jet black with almost no head. Nose is unbelievably decadent, with truckloads of coconut upfront, followed by vanilla beans, and rounded out by subdued bourbon -- that's a lot of coconut. Flavour is absurdly intense -- there's more flavour in that than a whole growler of most beers -- that's syrupy, oily, intensely sweet. Thick coconut, vanilla, brown sugar, molasses. Near-cloying in sweetness. This is really a bit much. It's certainly a lovely syrupy dessert beer, but there's not really any elegance to this. Fun to have the opportunity to try this, but it's overrated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2020
at 03:32
10/10
One of the most mind blowing usage of barrel I've seen, with the vanilla it tastes like marshmallow. Smooth, full body, perfect balance
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2020
at 11:05