So Happens It's Tuesday
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.73
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Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels
Namesake aside, this bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout is worthy of pouring every day of the week. Both elegant and complex, it exemplifies over 10 years of experience in barrel-aging technique. Notes of dark chocolate and vanilla are rounded out with hints of freshly picked cherries, dried figs, and molasses.
Namesake aside, this bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout is worthy of pouring every day of the week. Both elegant and complex, it exemplifies over 10 years of experience in barrel-aging technique. Notes of dark chocolate and vanilla are rounded out with hints of freshly picked cherries, dried figs, and molasses.
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8/10
Green can 15,3% web SB 2023-12-02 Göteborg AR: tutti frutti, bourbon, chocolate, sweet, AP: dark brown, no head F: tutti frutti, bourbon, chocolate, sweet, warming feeling
Tried
from Can
on 02 Dec 2023
at 22:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473ml can. Poured pitch black in color. Bourbon quite strong, sticky and woody, roasty and sweet. Notes of soy. Heavy sipper.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2023
at 13:50
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Beer #3 of my 10,00th Beer Milestone Celebration! Super dark brown coloured body with a very nice, super rich tan head that's about two centimetres tall, somehow microfoamed and stays atop the 90 per cent opaque dark brown body nicely - this looks great, especially for how long it's spent in the bottle. Aroma of vanilla, cream, rich icing sugar, a ton of lactose, a lot of roasted malts, some caramelised sugars, oatmeal and a heavy dose of bourbon here - this one is intense in the nose in a good way, but showing a surpring amount of sugars here coupled with the alcohol and maltiness - nice in the nose. Full-bodied; Intense and super strong malts show at first with a bunch of oatmeal, roasted grains, some rye coupled with a deep coffee finish and some caramelised sugars all showing quite strong, but the lactose, yeast and sugars somehow temper this robust quality and leave the palate very sweet and pretty well balanced, somehow, but the alcohol, additional sugars, creamy quality do show through, but are muted very well, as are the bourbony, liqour notes that are here, but are managed nicely. Aftertaste shows some deep cream, vanilla, lactose and pure rich pungency that is left alone, with a slight coffee and especially chocolatey characteristic that comes through near the end, perhaps on the easier-side drinking of this one, but the rich lactose, cream, vanilla and sweetness probably help out with this quite a bit. Overall, this is very well muted, considering the pungency here with a great profile, a nice flavour, some smooth complexity with a big, boozy hit of course and while I'm not sure how anyone could get to this in a single day (it took me only two days!), it is VERY nice and much better than I was expecting. I'm not sure how much the bottle aging that I did helped out here, but this was very smooth for the style and held up pretty nicely in my basement for 7+ years! I sampled this 75 cL bottle, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 26-November-2016 for US$18,89 when I only had two young kids, sampled as Beer #3 [of 21 - 10 (for 10,000) of Each side of the 10,000 Beer Milestone and the 10,000th itself!] of my 10,000th Beer Milestone, and sampled at my house here in Washington on 28-April-2023.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2023
at 07:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled@Alex tasting, shared by Ville, thanks! Black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is roasted, some syrup and mild toasted tones. Flavour is liquorice, alcohol, some roasted and mild toffee tones. A bit sharp.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2023
at 14:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
15.3% version. 0,473l can from Pien webshop Advent calendar, #13. Canned 24.8.2021. Almost black beer with medium but quickly vanishing brown head. Aroma has lot of coffee and bourbon barrel with tobacco, chocolate and vanilla. Flavor is quite sweet with lot of booze on the background. Coffee, vanilla, bourbon barrel, tobacco. Full body.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2023
at 19:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
dark brown colour, moderate sized beige head; aroma and taste of dark chocolate, vanilla, whisky and some spicy alcoholic notes; quite good one
Tried
on 03 Jan 2023
at 19:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
0.44l can many thanks to Lore. Black body with a thin pearl head. Aroma and taste of booze, chocolate, nutmeg and burnt sugar. The base beer seems to be nice, but to be honest it's way too boozy for me.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2023
at 19:19
8/10
Fairly thin, boozy, a bit bitter. Coffee and cocoa, rich bourbon, a bit of caramel. Smooth, very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2022
at 21:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
What a monster. Lots of dark chocolate, berry, cascara, molasses, oak, and oh so much bourbon. Acidity seems a bit high, but this pint is ridiculously drinkable for a 15% beer. Not my favorite, but I’m enjoying it.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2022
at 00:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Very dark brown with a vanishing light tan head. Aroma of mocha, Bourbon, some dried fruit. Lots of Bourbon in the taste. Not all that sweet with little overt booze but a surprising lack of bottom end grunt. Finish has some nicely peppery oak. Pleasant enough but too much about Bourbon and not enough about stout for me. After a while its strength is dulling.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2022
at 14:17