Black Butte XXXI
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.49
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Drake (22938) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Shared at the October 2024 PS tasting, 10/12/24. Black, large brown head, average retention. Aroma of roast, coffee, cardamom, mild oak. Taste is roast, chocolate, bourbon, cherry. Full bodied, mild booze.
KevinReddirt (2104) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
I cannot keep the bottle unopened forever. Sadly it is my last bomber of Black Butte since the brewery has gone to 12 oz bottles. While I do miss the 22 oz bottles, I do not miss the wax dip, so much work. Finally, lifting the bottle for a pour into my New Belgium snifter to see a brown-black body with a respectable head of tawny tan foam. The smell is delightful with dark fruit, berries, chocolate and grain. And the drink only runs laps around the scent. Dark chocolate, tobacco, coffee, dark plums, licorice, scorched wheat bread, wood and some booze. The sweetness is more than offset by the bitterness. Really good, this tasting makes me nostalgic. Bottled on 6/11/19, just to say.
Anders37 (30391) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample @ GABF 2019. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty woody bourbon chocolate and coffee aroma. Roasted malty woody coffee bourbon and chocolate flavor. Has roasted malty woody bourbon coffee and chocolate finish.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
bottle. Pours opaque black, small tan head, good lacing. Aroma is licorice, molasses, bourbon. Flavor is medium sweet, medium bitter, earthy. Full body.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample at Aficionado's during the TTA Monthly Meeting on 10/25/2019. Brown-black pour with a medium tan head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing. Aroma of bourbon, chocolate, coffee and vanilla. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, coffee, roast malt and fudge. The finish is oaky with a bourbon and coffee aftertaste. Good beer all around.
mcberko (47051) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown / black with a small tan head. Nose is full of cardamom upfront, followed by bourbon barrels, coffee, and a hint of dark cocoa. Flavour is rich, with lots of cardamom, coffee, cocoa, and bourbon barrels in beautiful cohesion. The cardamom adds a really nice accentuation here, with the bourbon, coffee, and chocolate in great cohesion. Excellent.
Rennat42 (5572) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. A- Cardamom, slightly roasty, mild cocoa. A- Black color, black liquid, tan head. T- Cardamom, cocoa, booze. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Had a Jordanian beer with these ingredients that I loved so this was worth a shot. Good stuff but just short of being exceptional. Lots of tasty cardamom and enough barrel aging to add influence but not overpower. I just wanted more coffee. It felt too subdued. That said, still great, just not as complex as I hoped.
mcm1 (3796) ticked Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
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Ibrew2or3 (10793) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Crowler pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports tan head of foam. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, chocolate, booze and oak. The taste delivers smooth dark roasted malts and chocolate leading to smooth boozy barrel character and a dash of spicy oak. Solid sipping experience.
fiulijn (28444) reviewed Black Butte XXXI from Deschutes Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Courtesy of Sergey
Black colour with brown head. Too much smell of cardamom, not my favourite. Liquorice flavour, moderately sweet, with strong cardamom flavour; some booze burn.
Ok beer, but definitively unbalanced.